Client: Blue Arrow
Location: Thornton Heath, United Kingdom
Job Category: Other
EU work permit required: Yes
Job Reference: 10279eedfacf
Job Views: 5
Posted: 11.03.2025
Expiry Date: 25.04.2025
Job Description:
Job Role: Kitchen Manager
Rate of pay: £30,000-£35,000
Hours: 39 Hours per week - No evenings or Weekends (Term time only)
Location: Wandsworth
Key Responsibilities:
1. Collaborate with the back of house team to help develop well-balanced and nutritious menus that cater to diverse dietary requirements and preferences.
2. Prepare and manage the catering budget, ensuring cost-effective operations while maintaining quality standards.
3. Establish strong relationships with school Bursars, Head Teachers and faculty.
4. Recruit, train, supervise and motivate catering staff.
5. Ensure compliance with food safety regulations, hygiene standards, and quality control protocols.
6. Identify opportunities for growth, innovation and improvement in menu offerings, service delivery and operational efficiency.
7. Maintain strict adherence to health and safety regulations, ensuring a clean and organised kitchen environment.
Qualifications:
1. Proven experience as a Chef Manager in a high-volume, quality-focused environment.
2. You can demonstrate that managing, training, and supporting a team has been an important part of your career to date.
3. Financially astute, you are very analytical and know how to create and maintain budgets and drive commercial performance.
4. Excellent coaching, delegation and influencing skills.
5. Ability to prioritise multiple projects in a fast-paced, multi-faceted, creative environment and able to thrive under pressure.
6. Ability to multitask, prioritise responsibilities, and adapt to changing circumstances in a fast-paced environment.
7. Meticulous organisational abilities and a high attention to detail.
8. Empathetic, clear and highly effective verbal and written communication.
9. Ability to adapt to challenges and opportunities with a solution-oriented perspective.
10. Excellent strategic thinking and critical reasoning skills.
Benefits:
1. 28 Days holiday including bank holidays.
2. 3 volunteering days.
3. 3 days grandparent leave.
4. 24 weeks enhanced maternity leave.
5. Bespoke training and development opportunities.
6. Pension and life insurance.
7. Discounts available on our HAPI app; high street shops, holidays & cinema.
8. Wellbeing hub.
9. Access to employee assistance programme.
10. Free meals whilst at work.
11. Career development opportunities.
12. HIT Apprenticeships for all experience levels.
Blue Arrow is proud to be a Disability Confident Employer and is committed to helping find great work opportunities for great people.
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