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Catering Manager

Exemplar Health Care
Leigh · posted 19 August 2026
Salary
£28,860 a year
Job type
contract
Location
Leigh, Greater Manchester
Category
Catering and Hospitality

Job Description

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Please ensure that this is completed in full in order that your application can be reviewed.Position : Catering Manager Care home : Lakeview Location : Leigh, Wigan Contract type : 40 hours per week Rate : £14.80 per hourAre you an experienced Chef with a flair for creating delicious, nutritious menus? Join us as our new Catering Manager at Lakeview care home in Wigan.As Catering Manager, youll 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 Care Lakeview is part of Exemplar Health Care, a leading provider of nursing care for adults living with complex and high acuity needs.We support adults living with complex mental health needs, dementia, neuro-disabilities including Huntingtons disease, and physical disabilities.As well as stable and secure employment opportunities, we offer great benefits and perks, and plenty of opportunities to learn, develop and progress.About the role Our 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 peoples 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.Youll put people at the heart of everything you do.

We can guarantee that whatever you bring to the role, youll see great rewards.If you havent worked in the care sector before, well help you feel right at home from the start with our induction, buddy, and ongoing training programmes.About you Above all, youre someone who identifies with our values of fun, integrity, responsiveness, success and teamwork.Youre 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 youll have previous experience in a similar position and environment, ideally in leading a catering or kitchen team.What we offer We 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 apply Sound good? Wed love to hear from you.

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