12 Oct
A2Dominion Group
Great Britain
Job description
Chef Manager
Salary : £17, - £21,
Contract type : Permanent, Part time ( hours per week), Monday Friday,working hours for this role are 8 : 30am 2pm
Location : Charles Clore Court, 139 Appleford Road, Reading, RG30 3NT
Role Overview
As the Chef Manager at Charles Clore Court, you will beresponsible for leading and delivering a first class end to end Cateringservice to the scheme, which accounts 47 self contained apartments forresidents aged 55+
Being both hands on with preparation and cooking toownership of the back office’ compliance, administration and audits, thisrewarding opportunity will be working with a fun, dedicated team of 4colleagues consisting of a Kitchen Assistant,
Restaurant Service Assistant,Weekend Cook / Chef and Weekend Kitchen Assistant, to deliver excellence for ourresidents.
Key Responsibilities :
- Preparation, cooking and serving of meals, meeting Company and EnvironmentalHealth Standards. Taking responsibility for particular dietary and culturalneeds, cooking specific meals as per the resident food profile so thatresident’s preferences are met
- Complete all menu tick sheets, cleaning records and handover sheets daily,recording meals sold and reporting resident feedback to Catering Manager
- Issuing of resident catering invoices, responding to resident and queriesregarding payments and accrued arrears
- Carry out Health & Safety & Food Hygiene standards checks as directedby A2Dominion catering standards and that all practices meet the statutoryregulations, including the Registered Homes Act 1984, and A2Dominions Health& Safety policy
- Take responsibility for preparing and responding to inspections and audits byexternal authorities and other bodies and fulfilling reporting requirements
- Lead and support a small, fun dedicated team of colleagues, allocating dutiesand checking work is completed in timely manner.
Taking responsibility formanaging their recruitment, probation, development, absence, staff behavioursand employment lifecycle
Ownership of ordering, stock control, deliveries, agency workers time keepingand maintain the standards set by the Catering Manager
More about you :
We want you to bring your knowledge and experience to playyour part in improving people’s lives :
- Ideally you will have a Catering / Cooking qualificationand / or experience working in a Care and Support environment, or cookingexperience for large volumes of people
- Excellent time management and organisational skills inrunning a smooth, effective catering service for our residents
- Have a passion for leading a team, whether you have prior experience orlooking to take the next step in your career.
- Comfortable in taking ownership of the 'back office'administration and documentation using basic Microsoft applications (Excel,Word, Teams, Outlook)
- Excellent English verbal and written communicationskills
- Able to commute to the housing scheme in Tilehurst, Berkshire, RG30 3NT
About A2Dominion
We are a UK housing association committed to a new vision providing homes people love to live in.
With over 38,000 homes in management across London and southern England, weprovide a wide range of homes for social, affordable, and private rent,specialist services,
as well as homes for sale and shared ownership.
Our 70,000+ customers come from a diverse range of backgrounds with varyinglevels of income. We’re here to provide them all withhomes that are safe, high quality and sustainable.
And with social housing roots going back eight decades, we continue to ensurethat every penny of profit is reinvested into our charitable social purpose delivering more homes and better services for customers.
Choosing us is easy
As an employee of A2Dominion, we want you to feel rewarded and have a choice offlexible benefits, salary exchange benefits, and rewards and discounts thatwork for you, wherever you are in your life.
We offer a wide range of staff benefits. For this role,these include :
- 25 days’ holiday (Plus Bank Holidays)
increasing up to 28days with 3 years of service
- Up to 8% contributory pension
- Investment in your learning and development
In addition, all permanent and fixed-term employees receivea generous annual allowance of up to £300 to use towards health and lifestylebenefits for both you and your family.
We also operate a Cycle to Work Scheme whereby employeeshave access to cycling equipment throughout the year and can pay via monthlysalary deductions.
If you require a reasonable adjustment during therecruitment process, please contact our Talent Team to request :
A2Dominion Group is a Disability Confident Employer which means that we arecommitted to employing disabled people and will : actively look to attract andrecruit disabled people,
provide a fully inclusive and accessible recruitmentprocess, offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the minimumcriteria for the job, be flexible with assessing people so disabled applicantshave the best opportunity to demonstrate that they can do the job, makereasonable adjustments as required.
At A2Dominion Group, we recognise the positive value of diversity, promoteequality and inclusivity in our hiring processes.
We always aim to recruit theperson who is most suited to the job and welcome applications from people ofall backgrounds men and women, people of all ages, sexual orientations,nationalities, religions, and beliefs.
Meeting the role requirements
We recognise that some females will only apply for a role ifthey meet 100% of role requirements.
If this sounds like you, we’d stillencourage you to apply and also to arrange a call with one of our recruitmentteam to discuss your application further at
A2Dominion are proud to be a family friendly employer
Everyone is welcome at A2Dominion Group. We know thatequality, diversity, and inclusivity make us better. We embrace the uniquecontributions of our people and seek to create a workplace where everyone feelslike they belong.
Find out why our people love working with us.
Join us at A2Dominion, where your expertise will be integral to our recoveryjourney,
creating lasting positive changes in the lives of our customers.
Ifyou possess the right motivation and drive to contribute to our recovery andchange initiatives, we invite you to apply and be a crucial part of our team.
▶️ Chef Manager
🖊️ A2Dominion Group
📍 Great Britain