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Position: Catering ManagerCare home: Shire Oaks CourtLocation: 6 Brownhills Road, Walsall Wood, Walsall, WS8 7BPContract type: 40 Hours Per Week ( weekends maybe required ) Rate: £13.27 Per HourAre you an experienced Chef with a flair for creating delicious, nutritious menus? Join us as our new Catering Manager at Shire Oaks Court care home in Walsall.As Catering Manager, you'll lead our Catering Team in providing healthy and inviting meals for the people we support. This is an exciting opportunity to use your cooking skills to make a real difference every day.About Exemplar Health CareShire Oaks Court is part of Exemplar Health Care, one of the country's leading nursing care providers. We support adults living with dementia, complex mental health needs and neuro-disabilities including Huntington's disease and strokes. As well as stable and secure employment opportunities, we offer great benefits and perks, and plenty of opportunities to learn, develop and progressAbout the roleOur 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 kitchenpreparing, cooking and serving foodunderstanding people's needs, likes and choices to develop suitable menusensuring your Catering Team complies with food hygiene standardscompleting relevant checks and maintaining recordscontrolling stock and purchases within an allocated budgetleading 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.Download our job description to read more: About youAbove 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 requirementscreative in menu development and food preparationan excellent team player, able to coordinate, support and motivate a teamexperienced in managing a catering budgetadaptable and flexiblesomeone 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 offerWe offer great rewards and perks including: excellent supervision, peer support, learning opportunities and career prospectsaccess to wages before paydayretail and lifestyle reward discountsfree DBS check24/7 counselling and supportBlue Light Card eligibility.How to applySound good? We'd love to hear from you. Click the button to 'APPLY NOW'. For an informal chat about joining us, call us on 01977 630830 or email pod4@.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.