Catering Manager

Do you enjoy producing fresh food you can be proud of, but feel tired of working long hours just to get through service? This is a role with no culture of excessive overtime, giving you a proper work/life balance and a life outside the kitchen.
  
This role offers

• Stable hours: A 40-hour week with no expectation of excessive overtime.
• The chance to lead one of the organisation’s busiest kitchens, catering for 180–220 covers per lunch and dinner service (up to 300 residents on site).
• Real ownership of the operation: menu input, standards, stock/ordering and compliance; not “just cooking”.
• A community feel: You’ll get to know residents, hear their feedback, and take pride in improving meal satisfaction.
• Great benefits: Including free gym access, enhanced pension and maternity pay, death in service cover, and more.

As Catering Manager, you’ll run the kitchen day to day: setting standards, organising service, leading the team, and keeping everything compliant while delivering fresh meals at scale. Bringing your experience from education, care, contract catering, staff dining or other high-volume environments, you’ll step into a role where your leadership directly improves resident satisfaction every single day.
  
Other information

• Salary: Up to £37,500 – £40,000
• Hours: 40 per week (Full time / permanent contract)
• Working pattern: 5 days out of 7 with a mix of weekday and weekend shifts (typically a couple of weekends per month)
• Working Pattern: Mon–Fri 12:00–21:00 | Sat–Sun 07:00–16:00
• Enhanced Pension – up to 10% company contributed
• Enhanced maternity pay
• Free Gym
• Death in Service

This role could suit a Kitchen Manager, Catering Manager, Head Cook, Head Chef (high-volume), Care Home Chef, School Catering Lead, or a Senior Chef ready to step into a full kitchen leadership role.

 
 
Please note that due to the high volume of applications, only candidates selected for further consideration will be contacted. If you do not hear from us within 14 days, we regret to inform you that your application has not been successful.
 
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