Chef Manager

Job title: Chef Manager
Contract: Permanent
Hours: 16.5 hours Friday, Saturday, Sunday 8.30am – 2pm 
Salary: £11, £12,441.00 per annum
Location: Onsite at Charles Clore Court, Reading, Berkshire

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. 

Our 70,000+ customers come from a diverse range of backgrounds with varying
levels of income. We're here to provide them all with homes that are safe, high
quality and sustainable.  

And with social housing roots going back eight decades, we continue to ensure
that every penny of profit is reinvested into our charitable social purpose –
delivering more homes and better services for customers. 

About the role
As the Chef Manager at Charles Clore Court, you will be responsible for leading
and delivering a first-class end to end Catering service to the scheme, which
accounts 47 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 a fun, dedicated team of 4 colleagues consisting of a Kitchen
Assistant, Restaurant Service Assistant, Weekend Cook/Chef and Weekend 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
- Take responsibility for preparing and responding to inspections and audits by
external authorities and other bodies and fulfilling reporting requirements
- Lead and support a small, fun dedicated team of colleagues, allocating duties
and checking work is completed in timely manner. Taking responsibility for
managing their 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 Tilehurst, Berkshire, RG30 3NT

Application process
Please attach a tailored CV for this role, ensuring it highlights relevant
experience and provides explanations for any employment gaps.
Choosing us is easy
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) increasing up to 28 days with 3 years
of service
- Up to 8% contributory pension
- Flexible working
- Investment in your learning and development

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.

We also operate a Cycle to Work Scheme whereby employees have access to cycling
equipment throughout the year and can pay via monthly salary deductions.

A2Dominion Group is a Disability Confident Employer which means that we
are committed to employing disabled people and will: actively look to attract
and recruit disabled people, provide a fully inclusive and accessible
recruitment process, offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the
minimum criteria for the job, be flexible with assessing people so disabled
applicants have the best opportunity to demonstrate that they can do the job,
make reasonable adjustments as required.

At A2Dominion Group, we recognise the positive value of diversity, promote
equality and inclusivity in our hiring processes. We always aim to recruit the
person who is most suited to the job and welcome applications from people of
all backgrounds – men and women, people of all ages, sexual orientations,
nationalities, religions, and beliefs.

If you require a reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process, please
contact our  Resourcing Team to request:

Meeting the role requirements
We recognise that some females will only apply for a role if they meet 100% of
role requirements.  If this sounds like you, we'd still encourage you to
apply and also to arrange a call with one of our Resourcing Team to discuss
your application further at

A2Dominion are proud to be a family friendly employer
Everyone is welcome at A2Dominion Group. We know that equality, diversity, and
inclusivity make us better. We embrace the unique contributions of our people
and seek to create a workplace where everyone feels like they belong. Find out
why our people love working with us.

Join us at A2Dominion, where your expertise will be integral to our recovery
journey, creating lasting positive changes in the lives of our customers. If
you possess the right motivation and drive to contribute to our recovery and
change initiatives, we invite you to apply and be a crucial part of our team.