Chef Manager
| Posting date: | 22 July 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £18,575.70 to £19,362.20 per year |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 08 August 2025 |
| Location: | Viscount Court, Vansittart Road, Windsor, SL4 5DR |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | A2Dominion |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | Chef Manager |
Summary
Chef Manager
Salary: £18,575.70 - £19362.20
Contract type: Permanent, Part time (27.5 hours per week), Monday – Friday, working hours for this role are 8:30am – 2pm
Location: Viscount Court, Vansittart Road, Windsor, SL4 5DR
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.
Application process
Please attach a tailored CV for this role, ensuring it highlights relevant experience and provides explanations for any employment gaps.
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: resourcing@a2dominion.co.uk
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 resourcing@a2dominion.co.uk
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.
Salary: £18,575.70 - £19362.20
Contract type: Permanent, Part time (27.5 hours per week), Monday – Friday, working hours for this role are 8:30am – 2pm
Location: Viscount Court, Vansittart Road, Windsor, SL4 5DR
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.
Application process
Please attach a tailored CV for this role, ensuring it highlights relevant experience and provides explanations for any employment gaps.
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: resourcing@a2dominion.co.uk
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 resourcing@a2dominion.co.uk
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.