Cook Manager

Impact Food Group; Wickford; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 22,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading education catering company is seeking a Cook Manager for a position based at Castledon School in Wickford. The role involves managing a kitchen team, preparing meals for around 130 students, and liaising with clients to ensure quality service. Ideal candidates should have strong cooking and management skills, preferably with experience in a Special Educational Needs environment. The position offers a daytime schedule, weekends off, and various career development opportunities.

Benefits

Free meal on shift

Uniform provided

Career development opportunities

Staff discount scheme at over 850 retailers

Qualifications

• Experienced Cook/Chef Manager with a focus on fresh ingredients.
• Ability to manage kitchen operations for around 130 covers.
• Exposure to Special Educational Needs (SEN) environment is beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Head the kitchen team to ensure smooth service operations.
• Liaise with onsite clients to meet their needs.
• Maintain adherence to due diligence in kitchen operations.

Skills

Cooking and people management skills

Experience in a kitchen environment

Ability to manage a team

Knowledge of special educational needs (SEN)

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: Castledon SChool, Wickford, SS12

Working Days: Monday to Friday

Shifts & Working hours: 7.30am-3pm (35hours per week)

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

Pay Details: £21,822.50 per year

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 for around 130 covers, managing your kitchen and liaising directly with onsite clients. The site is a SEN (Special Educational Needs) School- any exposure or experience in this area would be beneficial.

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.

Asan added bonusa free meal is supplied on shift! (and uniform)

We’llgive 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 requiredtoundergo an enhancedDBS check, which IFG will pay for.

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