Catering Manager

Coalville, LE67 3LN

Position: Catering Manager
Care home: Primrose Place
Location: Ashby Road, Coalville, LE67 3LB
Contract type: Full time 40 hours per week
Rate: £14.43 per hour

Are you an experienced Chef with a flair for creating delicious, nutritious menus? Join us as our new Catering Manager at Primrose Place care home in Coalville.

As our Catering Manager, you'll have the creative freedom to design and make healthy and inviting meals for the people we support within our brand new purpose built kitchen.

You'll lead the Catering Team to develop exciting menus and have the unique opportunity to help shape the team's culture from the start.

About Exemplar Health Care

Primrose Place is part of Exemplar Health Care, one of the country's leading nursing care providers.

When open, Primrose Place will support adults living with acquired brain injuries, complex mental health needs, dementia and physical disabilities.

As well as stable and secure employment opportunities, we offer great benefits and perks, and plenty of opportunities to learn, develop and progress.

About the role

Our Catering Managers cook delicious and nourishing meals for people with a range of dietary requirements.

No two days will ever be the same, but your day-to-day responsibilities will include:

• managing the day-to-day running of the kitchen
• preparing, cooking and serving food
• understanding people's needs, likes and choices to develop suitable menus
• ensuring your Catering Team complies with food hygiene standards
• completing relevant checks and maintaining records
• controlling stock and purchases within an allocated budget
• leading and managing your Catering Team members, ensuring they receive induction, training and support as required.

If you haven't worked in the care sector before, we'll help you feel right at home from the start with our induction, buddy, and ongoing training programmes.

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About you

Above all, you're someone who identifies with our values of fun, integrity, responsiveness, success and teamwork.

You're also:

• a cook with a flair for creating delicious and nutritious meals for varied dietary requirements
• creative in menu development and food preparation
• an excellent team player, able to coordinate, support and motivate a team
• experienced in managing a catering budget
• adaptable and flexible
• someone with excellent verbal and written communication skills.

We like our Catering Managers to have, or be working towards, a Level 3 Food Hygiene qualification.

As this is a management position, we expect you'll have previous experience in a similar position and environment, ideally in leading a catering or kitchen team.

What we offer

We offer great rewards and perks including:

• excellent supervision, peer support, learning opportunities and career prospects
• access to wages before payday
• retail and lifestyle reward discounts
• free DBS check
• 24/7 counselling and support
• Blue Light Card eligibility.

How to apply

Sound good? We'd love to hear from you. Click the button to 'APPLY NOW'.

For an informal chat about joining us, call us on or email

Please note, applicants must be authorised to work in the UK. We're unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time.

We will never ask for payment for job opportunities. Any website or individual requesting money for a Certificate of Sponsorship (CoS) while claiming to represent us is not associated with our organisation. If you're asked for money in connection with a role, please contact

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About Exemplar Health Care

We're one of the UK's leading providers of nursing care for adults living with complex needs, with more than 60 care homes across England.

Everything we do is guided by our values of fun, integrity, responsiveness, success, and teamwork.

This creates a supportive environment where colleagues can grow and make every day better for the people we support.

Getting to Primrose Place

Primrose Place, Ashby Road, Coalville, LE67 3LB

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Primrose Place is a short drive from the M1, A42, and other major roads.

If you're travelling on the M1:

• Take the A42 junction.
• Take the A511 slip road to Ashby/Burton/Coalville
• At the roundabout, take the second exit onto Ashby Road/A511
• At the roundabout, take the third exit onto Ashby Road.

Please note, Primrose Place won't be available to find on Google or Apple Maps until the home is registered with CQC.

The home's a short walk from several bus stops.

• Snibston Colliery Park bus stop (stop ID: leijgamw), which is accessed by buses 15, 29, 29A, 29B, 29S, 125, and X29
• Discovery Park bus stop (stop ID: leijgapt), which is accessed by buses 15, 29, 29A, 29B, 29S, and 125
• Memorial Square bus stop (stop ID: leijgamt), which is accessed by buses 11, 11A, , 29A, 29B, 29S, , X16, X29, and skylink.

There are no train station's in the local area.

• Loughborough - 12 miles away (35 minute drive).

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