Signature Dining - Cook/Chef

Job Advertisement: Cook/Chef

Are you passionate, experienced and looking for a new challenge? If so, we have the perfect opportunity for you!

By joining Signature Dining you will be a part of one of the UK’s leading independent contract caterers. Voted one of the top 6 Best Places to Work in Hospitality 2025, we specialise exclusively in senior living and end of life care sectors, playing an essential role in the lives of our residents and patients, enriching and enhancing their lives everyday with great food.

Your new role:

As a Signature Dining Cook/Chef, you will have the opportunity to demonstrate your passion and creativity and to expand and develop your role. Joining our team in Solihull you will be working 40 per week 5 days over 7. Shifts will be allocated on a rota basis and will include evenings and weekends.

Responsibilities:

• Lead your catering team in providing a cooked from fresh daily food offer for residents and patients
• oversee all aspects of kitchen management, daily due diligence and staff management
• Effectively manage the catering budget
• Prepare meals to the highest possible standards, using fresh ingredients, and presented with love and care.
• Provide daily breakfast, lunch, and evening meals.
• Keep up to date with the menus and what food is on offer.
• Ensure that COSHH, food safety, and health and safety legislation are followed.

As our Cook You Will...

• Be experienced, creative, and passionate about cooking with fresh produce.
• Be an effective team worker.
• Possess excellent culinary skills and be up to date with current food trends.
• Have knowledge of the IDDSI framework, though full training will be provided
• Be comfortable engaging with vulnerable adults and their relatives.
• Have excellent communication and people skills.
• An NVQ level 2 or equivalent is desirable but not essential
• Have completed Health & Safety and Food Safety Training
• Please note Signature Dining do not currently offer sponsorship

The Benefits of Working With Signature Dining

• Working with a fast growing, reputable caterer
• Structured career development opportunities
• Sociable working hours
• 28 Days annual leave
• Pension scheme
• Refer a Friend scheme
• Staff wellbeing programme and mental health support

About Signature Dining

Signature Dining are a leading contract caterer working exclusively in the care and palliative care sectors. We provide high quality, bespoke catering services to a range of clients and pride ourselves on our personal approach and collaboration with our clients to meet the needs of our diners. We are committed to serving nutritious, freshly prepared, home cooked meals using the finest quality seasonal ingredients, all presented with love and flair.

We are a vibrant, multi award-winning team of passionate individuals, dedicated to providing the very best standard of service.

Signature Dining are committed to developing a genuinely inclusive workforce where we embrace the differences of all of our colleagues and celebrate diversity. We welcome applications from all individuals regardless of age, religion, colour, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status or disability status.

Signature Dining follow safer recruitment procedures. All offers of employment are subject to satisfactory references and an enhanced DBS disclosure (the cost of which will be met by the employer)

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