Chef Manager - Larchwood Primary School

Compass Group UK; Brentwood; On-site; GBP 26,000

Job description

Pabulum Catering are now recruiting for a Chef Manager to help us deliver exceptional food experiences to our children at Larchwood Primary School.

As a Chef Manager, you will be working in a passionate and hard-working team to create an outstanding experience for our 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:

1. Preparing our delicious food
2. Managing the main aspects of the kitchens including Health & Safety and Training & Development, and keeping the Unit Bookwork up to date
3. Receiving and managing food deliveries and managing storage
4. Developing a great working relationship with clients, team, and customers to ensure the catering contract you are part of is always growing in the right direction.

Our ideal Chef Manager will be:

1. Passionate about food and great customer service
2. A fantastic communicator who works well as part of a team. Good communication skills throughout our customer and client journey are a must, with excellent supervisory skills being the real key to managing, developing, and motivating a large team
3. Financially astute, with full training provided in all our processes and software systems
4. Having a craft background with qualifications/experience to match

Role details and benefits include:

1. GBP26,000 per annum
2. Monday to Friday 7:00 - 15:00 hours
3. Excellent work/life balance due to term time only contract
4. Holiday pay
5. NEST pension scheme
6. Comprehensive Employee Assist Programme
7. Consistent training and development
8. Unlock - discount membership

At Pabulum there are three basic ingredients for your role;

1. The food - We take our values seriously, putting Education, Passion, Sensation, and Innovation at the 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.
2. The people - Happy customers always come back for more, so we expect you to ensure they have an excellent customer experience.
3. And you - We are recruiting for a Chef Manager 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 (which we'll pay for).

Interested in becoming part of the Pabulum family?

Please apply online via the advert or email us at

Job Reference: com BU

CH&CO, a part of 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!