Position: Catering Manager
Care home: Bennett Court 
Location: South Elmsall, Pontefract, WF9 2TF
Contract type: Full time, 40 hours per week including weekends
Rate: £12.50 per hour
Care home CQC rating: Good

Are you an experienced Chef with a flair for creating delicious, nutritious menus? Join us as our new Catering Manager at Bennett Court care home in Pontefract.

As Catering Manager, you’ll lead our Catering Team in providing healthy and inviting meals for the people we support. 

This is an exciting opportunity to use your cooking skills to make a real difference every day.

About Exemplar Health Care 

 Bennett Court is part of Exemplar Health Care, a leading provider of nursing care for adults living with complex and high acuity needs. 

We support adults living with complex mental health needs and neuro disabilities including Huntington's disease and Parkinson's disease. We also provide separate supported living facilities, where service users can lead a more independent life.

As well as stable and secure employment opportunities, we offer great benefits and perks, and plenty of opportunities to learn, develop and progress.

About the role

Our Catering Managers cook delicious and nourishing meals for people with a range of dietary requirements. 

No two days will ever be the same, but your day-to-day responsibilities will include:

• managing the day-to-day running of the kitchen

• preparing, cooking and serving food

• understanding people’s needs, likes and choices to develop suitable menus

• ensuring your Catering Team complies with food hygiene standards

• completing relevant checks and maintaining records

• controlling stock and purchases within an allocated budget

• leading and managing your Catering Team members, ensuring they receive induction, training, supervision and support as required

• managing staff rotas and holidays.

You’ll put people at the heart of everything you do. We can guarantee that whatever you bring to the role, you’ll see great rewards.

If you haven’t worked in the care sector before, we’ll help you feel right at home from the start with our induction, buddy, and ongoing training programmes.

Download our job description to read more: 

About you

Above all, you’re someone who identifies with our values of fun, integrity, responsiveness, success and teamwork.

You’re also:

• a cook with a flair for creating delicious and nutritious meals for varied dietary requirements

• creative in menu development and food preparation

• an excellent team player, able to coordinate, support and motivate a team

• experienced in managing a catering budget

• adaptable and flexible

• someone with excellent verbal and written communication skills. 

We like our Catering Managers to have, or be working towards, a Level 3 Food Hygiene qualification.

As this is a management position, we expect you’ll have previous experience in a similar position and environment, ideally in leading a catering or kitchen team.

What we offer

We offer great rewards and perks including: 

• excellent supervision, peer support, learning opportunities and career prospects

• access to wages before payday

• retail and lifestyle reward discounts

• free DBS check

• 24/7 counselling and support

• Blue Light Card eligibility.

How to apply

Sound good? We’d love to hear from you. Click the button to ‘APPLY NOW’.

For an informal chat about joining us, call us on 01977 630830 or email Pod5@exemplarhc.com

Please note, applicants must be authorised to work in the UK. We’re unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time.