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Benefits
We ensure you're rewarded for all your hard work, which is why we offer a comprehensive benefits package which includes but is not limited to:
- Contributory pension scheme
- Grow your career with our Career Pathways and MyLearning programmes
- Quick access for you and your immediate family to a Digital GP, and wider healthcare benefits
- Exclusive travel discounts with TUI, Expedia, Booking.com and many more
- Save money on your food shop with discounts on Tesco, Sainsbury's, Morrisons and many more
- Up to 44% off cinema tickets to enjoy your favourite blockbuster
- Receive cash rewards every time you spend and use them on a wide range of brands
- Un-wind with us with free wellness, mindfulness and exercise classes
- You can share all discounts and offers with your friends and families
Please note: This role is contracted to 44.6 weeks per year
About the Role
As a Chef Manager, you will be working within an enthusiastic and hard-working team to create an outstanding experience for the school.
In return we offer an excellent work life balance, support and a fantastic company culture for a business committed to providing healthy food to children. At Pabulum, you’re important; without our employees we wouldn’t be where we are today with such a strong, innovative, and constantly growing business.
With over 120 sites across Southern England there’s plenty of opportunity for you to grow, learn and develop.
Your Key Responsibilities Will Include
- Preparing our delicious food
- Managing the main aspects of the kitchens including including Health & Safety and Training & Development. You will also have the unit bookwork to keep up to date.
- Receiving and managing food deliveries and managing storage.
- With a reputation for excellent service and fabulous food, we always put our customers first. As one of our Unit Managers we expect you want to do the same by developing great working relationship with clients, team, and customers, you will be able to ensure that the catering contract is always growing in the right direction.
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Our Ideal Chef Manager Will Be
- Passionate about food and great customer service
- A fantastic communicator who works well as part of a team
- Excellent communication skills throughout our customer and client journey are necessary.
- Excellent supervisory skills being the real key to managing, developing, and motivating a large team.
- You will need to be financially astute, but don’t worry, we will make sure you receive full training in all our processes and software systems to help you.
- A craft background with qualifications/experience to match.
Role Details And Benefits Include
- Excellent work/life balance due to term time only contract
- Holiday pay
- NEST pension scheme
- Comprehensive Employee Assist Programme
- Consistent training and development
- Perks at Work – discount membership
- Excellent work/ family life balance due to term time only contract
About Us
At Pabulum there are three basic ingredients for your role:
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- The food – Here at Pabulum, we take our values so seriously that we put Education, Passion, Sensation, and Innovation forefront of everything we do. 94% of our food is freshly prepared on site every day, using 75% British produce and little or no frozen or processed foods
- The people - Happy customers always come back for more, so we expect you to ensure they have an excellent customer experience.
- And you – We are recruiting for a Catering Assistant to join our positive and professional team.
As you will be working in Education, you must provide two employment/character references, and we’ll also carry out an Enhanced DBS / Criminal Record Check as well (which we’ll pay for).
As part of Compass you'll help to feed people, fuel progress and forge connections in around 6,000 venues. Join us to grow your career with the industry leader, and get competitive pay, great perks and unrivalled opportunities for learning and development, at one of the UK's biggest businesses.
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Compass Group UK&I is committed to fostering an environment where every individual can truly be themselves at work and has equal opportunities to advance in their careers. We strive to build a culture that respects and celebrates the unique talents, beliefs, backgrounds, and abilities of all our team members. We want our colleagues to feel valued, empowered to reach their full potential, and to thrive - because diversity is our strength!
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