Job Title: Catering Services Manager
Location: Olton, Solihull
Salary: £26,500 per annum
Hours: 35 hours a week with the ability to work flexibly across the week
Closing Date for applications: Wednesday 8th September 2021
SJMT is a family of charities & community of people supporting those most in need in the West Midlands. SJMT want everyone, regardless of age or circumstances, to feel secure, have opportunities and to thrive.
The services provided include:
- Safe, affordable and well-maintained alms-housing
- Residential and extra care
- Community and housing related support
- Services to advance the opportunities of children and young people in need
Everything they do is rooted in their 370 year history and driven by their vision for the future.
Job Role:
They are looking for a Catering Services Manager to develop a strong catering offer, which reflects the ethos of the Charity, who is as passionate about delivering gross profit targets as they are about exceptional customer service, with an in-depth knowledge and experience of managing successful catering ventures. You will be pro-active and take a ‘hands-on’ approach to driving the Trust’s catering operations forward.
Key responsibilities:
- Proactively managing the catering team, being responsible for recruiting, supporting, training and people development to deliver an efficient, high quality service.
- Being accountable for ensuring ongoing team communications, including building internal and external relationships
- Being accountable for maintaining, ordering and controlling food stocks within budget.
- Developing innovative menu planning, and design of food service within specified budgets ensuring high standard of food presentation and portion/quality control.
- Being accountable for COSHH, Food Safety, H&S, legal regulations, environmental policies and duty of care to customer and colleagues.
- Having a can do attitude to help co-ordinate and advise our catering teams during the transformation
- Being a hands on chef/cook with the ability to lead by example through operational excellence and the delivery of a high standard of food
General Requirements:
- Have experience of working in a catering environment, specifically within a management role
- Be a driven, self-starter with a passion for all things food
- Have proven leadership and excellent people management skills
- City & Guilds 7061 or NVQ Level 2 in Catering for the Hospitality Industry
- Be flexibility and ability to work on own initiative
- Hold a history of working with large groups of diverse clients ideally those with multiple dietary requirements and needs
- Have a solid knowledge of food, food hygiene (including hazard analysis and critical control points) and allergen awareness
- Have experience of menu planning around allergens
- Be a great cook/chef with the ability to share this skill with others and develop the teams catering skills
- Have strong organisational and time management skills
- Have an excellent level of IT skill being conversant with Microsoft office packages
- Have excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to lead and work as part of a team
- Complete an enhanced DBS and willingness to undertake safeguarding, fire training and first aid certificate
- Fully Covid-19 vaccinated as this position is based in the residential care home
What we offer:
They continue to reward their staff with competitive pay rates and a number of employee benefits including:
- Starting on 31 days holiday inclusive of Bank Holidays (increases with service)
- An annual ‘wellbeing’ day for all staff
- Company sick pay
- Funded DBS checks
- Free onsite parking
- Pension scheme
- Life Insurance
- Wider Wallet staff discount scheme
- Employee Assistance programme
- Long service awards
- Ongoing career development training
Equal Opportunities:
They are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. They celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
Please note should sufficient applications be received we reserve the right to close this vacancy at any time and recruit at any stage. We always encourage all interested applicants to apply at their earliest convenience to avoid disappointment.
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