- Professional
- Bureau à Windsor
Job title: Chef Manager
Location: Viscount Court, Vansittart Road, Windsor,
SL4 5DR
Salary: £18,575.70 - £19,362.20 per annum
Work hours: Part time (27.5 hours per week), Mon–Fri,
working hours for this role are 8:30am–2pm
Contract type: Permanent
DBS Level: This role requires an enhanced DBS check
About A2Dominion
We are a UK housing association committed to a new vision – providing homes
people love to live in. With over 38,000 homes in management across London
and southern England, we provide a wide range of homes for social, affordable,
and private rent, specialist services, as well as homes for sale and shared ownership.
Role Overview
As the Chef Manager at Viscount Court, you will be responsible for leading and
delivering a first class end to end catering service to the scheme, which
consists of 46 self-contained apartments for residents aged 55+. Being both hands on with preparation and cooking to
ownership of the ‘back office’ compliance, administration and audits, this
rewarding opportunity will be working with an efficient and dedicated kitchen
assistant to deliver excellence for our residents.
Key Responsibilities:
* Preparation, cooking and serving of meals, meeting Company and Environmental
Health Standards. Taking responsibility for particular dietary and cultural
needs, cooking specific meals as per the resident food profile so that
resident’s preferences are met.
* Complete all menu tick sheets, cleaning records and handover sheets daily,
recording meals sold and reporting resident feedback to Catering Manager.
* Issuing of resident catering invoices, responding to resident and queries
regarding payments and accrued arrears.
* Carry out Health & Safety & Food Hygiene standards checks as directed
by A2Dominion catering standards and that all practices meet the statutory
regulations, including the Registered Homes Act 1984, and A2Dominions Health
& Safety policy.
* Taking responsibility for preparing and responding to inspections and audits
by external authorities and other bodies and fulfilling reporting requirements.
* Lead and support your team, allocating duties and checking work is completed
in timely manner. Taking responsibility for managing recruitment, probation,
development, absence, staff behaviours and employment lifecycle.
* Ownership of ordering, stock control, deliveries, agency workers time keeping
and maintain the standards set by the Catering Manager.
More about you
We want you to bring your knowledge and experience to play your part in
improving people’s lives:
* Ideally you will have a Catering/Cooking qualification and/or experience
working in a Care and Support environment, or cooking experience for large
volumes of people.
* Excellent time management and organisational skills in running a smooth,
effective catering service for our residents.
* Have a passion for leading a team, whether you have prior experience or
looking to take the next step in your career.
* Comfortable in taking ownership of the 'back office' administration and
documentation using basic Microsoft applications (Excel, Word, Teams, Outlook).
* Excellent English verbal and written communication skills.
* Able to commute to the housing scheme in Windsor, SL4 5DR.
Why A2Dominion?
As an employee of A2Dominion, we want you to feel rewarded and have a
choice of flexible benefits, salary exchange benefits, and rewards and
discounts that work for you, wherever you are in your life.
We offer a wide range of staff benefits. For this role, these include:
* 25 days’ holiday (Plus Bank Holidays) Up to 8% contributory pension
* In addition, all permanent and fixed-term employees receive a generous annual
allowance of up to £300 to use towards health and lifestyle benefits for both
you and your family.
Diversity & Inclusion
We’re proud to be a Disability Confident Employer and welcome applications
from people of all backgrounds. Our recruitment process is inclusive and
accessible, and we guarantee an interview to disabled applicants who meet the
minimum criteria. Reasonable adjustments are available throughout the process -
just contact our Resourcing Team at [email protected]
We know some people hesitate to apply if they don’t meet every requirement. If
that’s you, we encourage you to apply if your skills and experience align –
please get in touch with us to talk it through.
At A2Dominion, we value diversity, embrace flexibility, and are a
family-friendly employer. Everyone belongs here. Join us and help make a
lasting difference in the lives of our customers.
This Vacancy is being managed by Hollie Furness –
[email protected]
