Cook Manager

Impact Food Group; Harrogate; On-site; Full time

Job summary

A leading education catering company is seeking an experienced Cook Manager for Western Primary School in Harrogate. The role offers a daytime schedule with weekends and evenings off, ensuring a great work-life balance. Responsibilities include managing the kitchen team, overseeing food preparation, and maintaining service quality. The position also provides opportunities for career growth, free qualifications, and employee discounts. A DBS check is required for successful candidates.

Benefits

Free meals on shift

Uniform provided

Staff discount scheme at retailers

Career development opportunities

Qualifications

• Experienced Cook/Chef Manager with a focus on managing kitchens and preparing fresh food.
• Ability to manage a team effectively while ensuring service quality.
• Understanding of food safety and due diligence.

Responsibilities

• Head the kitchen team, ensuring smooth service.
• Liaise directly with onsite clients.
• Maintain high standards of food quality and safety.

Skills

Cooking skills

People management

Experience with fresh ingredients

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’renot 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
School Location: Western Primary School, Harrogate, HG2 0NA
Working Days: Monday to Friday
Shifts & Working hours: 7am-2pm (32.5 hours per week)
Working Weeks: 38 weeks per year (term time plus inset days)
Pay Details: £14.50 per Hour

Your Background…

We’reopen 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’renot in the business of making school food, we’rehere to makegoodfood, after all, that’s why our clientsandcustomers 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 schoolholidays 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 hadandwe’vegot a staffdiscount scheme at over850 retailers!

We also run monthlyopportunities for the best teams to win shopping vouchers...

Next steps…

If you thinkyou’vegot what it takes, and the times above suit you,we’dlove 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 area committed equal opportunities employer - if you require any assistance for the interview process, please detail withinyourapplication. Allinformation is kept confidential and in compliance with GDPR requirements.