Catering Manager

Position: Catering ManagerCare home: Primrose PlaceLocation: Ashby Road, Coalville, LE67 3LBContract type: Full time 40 hours per weekRate: £14.43 per hour
Are you an experienced Chef with a flair for creating delicious, nutritious menus? Join us as our new Catering Manager at Primrose Place care home in Coalville.
As our Catering Manager, you'll have the creative freedom to design and make healthy and inviting meals for the people we support within our brand new purpose built kitchen.
You'll lead the Catering Team to develop exciting menus and have the unique opportunity to help shape the team's culture from the start.
About Exemplar Health Care
Primrose Place is part of Exemplar Health Care, one of the country's leading nursing care providers.
Due to open January 2027, Primrose Place will support adults living with acquired brain injuries, complex mental health needs, dementia and physical disabilities.
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 kitchenpreparing, cooking and serving foodunderstanding people's needs, likes and choices to develop suitable menusensuring your Catering Team complies with food hygiene standardscompleting relevant checks and maintaining recordscontrolling stock and purchases within an allocated budgetleading and managing your Catering Team members, ensuring they receive induction, training and support as required.
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.

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 preparationan excellent team player, able to coordinate, support and motivate a teamexperienced in managing a catering budgetadaptable and flexiblesomeone 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