Chef Manager - Monday - Friday

Pabulum Catering are now recruiting for a Chef Manager help us deliver exceptional food experiences to our children at one of our schools in the Basildon area.

The school has a lovely little team of people in a real well cared for school. You will have a close relationship with the school and be responsible for a well-established kitchen, dedicated to providing the best for all children.

As a Chef Manager, you will be working in a passionate and hard-working team to create an outstanding experience for our school.

In return we offer an excellent work life balance, support and a fantastic company culture for a business committed to providing healthy food to children. At Pabulum, you're important; without our employees we wouldn't be where we are today with such a strong, innovative, and constantly growing business.

With over 120 sites across Southern England there's plenty of opportunity for you to grow, learn and develop.

Salary: £26,000 per annum plus our Chef Bonus which we pay each term. This can add a further £1000 per year extra to your salary. And the best bit. It's tax free! (Dependent on T&Cs)

Shift Pattern: Monday to Friday 7:00 -15:00 hours

As you will be working in Education, you must provide two employment/character references and we'll also carry out an Enhanced DBS / Criminal Record Check as well (which we'll pay for).

Your key responsibilities will include:

• Preparing our delicious food
• Managing the main aspects of the kitchens including including Health & Safety and Training & Development, and you'll have the Unit Bookwork to keep up to date
• Receiving and managing food deliveries and managing storage
• With a reputation for an excellent service and fabulous food we always put our customers first, as one of our Unit Managers we expect you want to do the same. By developing a great working relationship with clients, team and customers alike you will be able to ensure the catering contract you are part of is always growing in the right direction.

Our ideal Chef Manager will be:

• Passionate about food and great customer service
• A fantastic communicator who works well as part of a team. Good communication skills throughout our customer and client journey are a must, with excellent supervisory skills being the real key to managing, developing and motivating a large team
• You will need to be financially astute, but we'll make sure you receive full training in all our processes and software systems to help you.
• A craft background with qualifications/experience to match

What's in it for you?

Working with CH&CO has its perks! People are at the heart of everything we do, so we've developed a range of benefits to keep you happy.

• Personal Development and Training opportunities
• Life assurance scheme
• Pension scheme
• Holiday allowance
• Private medical eligibility
• Eye care
• A great wellbeing strategy – including access to our Employee Assistance Programme, salary finance
• Family friendly support
• Regular social events and communication with our leaders
• A holiday purchase scheme
• Volunteering days
• Professional subscriptions
• Recognition schemes and people awards
• Long service awards
• Access to some great high street discount vouchers

Inquisitive, Inclusive, Uplifting

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