Cook Manager

Impact Food Group; Ashford; On-site; GBP 24,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading education catering company in Ashford is seeking a Cook Manager for a 3-month cover role with potential for permanency. Responsibilities include managing a kitchen team, cooking with fresh and seasonal ingredients, and ensuring a high standard of service is maintained. This daytime role offers weekends and evenings off, along with all school holidays, allowing for a better work-life balance. Candidates will also have access to free qualifications and a staff discount scheme.

Benefits

Free meal on shift

Free qualifications and career development

Staff discount scheme

Monthly shopping voucher opportunities

Qualifications

• Experienced Cook/Chef Manager.
• Ability to manage a team and ensure compliance.
• Strong skills in cooking for volume.

Responsibilities

• Head up the kitchen team ensuring smooth service.
• Manage cooking using fresh ingredients.
• Liaise with onsite clients.

Skills

Cooking using fresh seasonal ingredients

People management

Job description

Welcome to IFG, we are one of the fastest growing, education catering companies in the country and were recently awarded Education Caterer of the year at the Foodservice Catey Awards. IFG has 4 amazing brands, Cucina, Innovate, Hutchison & Chapter One.

We’re not going to bore you with a long list of empty adjectives, we want one simple thing: awesome people to help us feedmorechildren better food.

The role…

Job Title: Cook Manager - 3 month cover with potential for a perm role in IFG

School Location: Meadhurst Primary School, Ashford, TW15

Working Days: Monday to Friday

Shifts & Working hours: 7am-2.30pm (35 hours per week)

Working Weeks: 39 weeks per year (term time plus inset days)

Pay Details: £23,327.50 per Annum

Your Background…

We’re open to people with great cooking and people management skills. You will be an experienced Cook/Chef Manager, used to cooking using fresh seasonal ingredients at volume, managing your kitchen and liaising directly with onsite clients.

As manager you will head up the team, making sure service runs smoothly and that all due diligence is adhered to.

We’re not in the business of making school food, we’re here to make good food, after all, that’s why our clients and customers love us!

What’s in it for me?

So maybe you fancy working somewhere close to home, with daytime hours, and with your weekends and evenings free?

Not to mention all school holidays off, giving you the opportunity for some great work-life balance.

As an added bonus a free meal is supplied on shift! (and uniform)

We’ll give you a place to grow and a career to be proud of.

There are loads of free qualifications and career development opportunities to be had and we’ve got a staff discount scheme at over 850 retailers!

We also run monthly opportunities for the best teams to win shopping vouchers…

Next steps…

If you think you’ve got what it takes, and the times above suit you, we’d love to hear from you!

An interview and kitchen visit will be required for this role.

IFG are committed to the safeguarding of children and our employees share this commitment. Successful candidates are required to undergo an enhanced DBS check, which IFG will pay for.

We are committed equal opportunities employer - if you require any assistance for the interview process, please detail within your application. All information is kept confidential and in compliance with GDPR requirements.