Total 6 Manager level F&B / Tourism / Hospitality job vacancies in Blackburn, BB2 3HH

Are you ready to take the next step in your F&B career?

We are searching for a Food & Beverage Team Leader who can support our Deputy & Assistant Manager’s in our busy Inn.

Your day to day;

• Serving food & drink, taking room reservations and looking after guests
• Being the first point of call for any guest issues
• Leading a shift, ensuring our guests receive high standards of service and want to return
• Supporting and motivating the team
• Maintaining staffing levels to meet payroll budgets under guidance of your manager

Who are we looking for?

You will need to be proactive and ensure the smooth running of your department and the team under you.

Food and Beverage Team Leader is a hands-on role so you will need to be comfortable with rolling up your sleeves and getting involved with service.

We need someone with previous experience of working within a busy, food-led operation – exposure to supervisory or management duties is desirable.

Our business is open all day every day so you will need to be flexible with the times you can work.

In return, we are offering a rewarding role with scope for career progression along with;

• A competitive salary, negotiable dependent on experience
• Wagestream - the ability to access up to 40% of your wages as you earn them each week
• 28 days annual leave (rising to 33 days after 5 years)
• Health cash plan
• Generous employee discounts
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay
• Apprenticeships available
• Life assurance
• Bespoke training programmes accessible to all
• An engaging & supportive work environment

Klarent Hospitality are recruiting for a Head Chef

We offer our employees excellent opportunities to grow and develop within the Klarent Hospitality Group Brand Portfolio, we pride ourselves on ensuring that our staff are rewarded and recognised for their hard work, commitments, and long service.

Klarent Hospitality operates branded hotels in key locations across the UK and Ireland. We will nurture talent and smart investment to drive superior performance and growth.

The Role:

- As Head Chef, you are fully responsible for developing the reputation of the hotel through the production of excellent quality food throughout the hotel
- Development and lead of a high-quality kitchen brigade
- A Head Chef will oversee the operational management of the kitchen and Team Members.
- Identify an effective approach to succession planning
- Create menus that meet and exceed customers' needs and conform to brand standards
- Ensure the consistent production of high-quality food through all hotel food outlets
- Develop positive customer relations through proactive interaction with Guests, Team Members, contractors, and suppliers
- Resolve, promptly and completely, any issues that may arise in the kitchen or related areas among Guests and Team Members
- Manage department operations, including budgeting, forecasting, resource planning, and waste management

Rewards your hard work by offering you the below team benefits when you join us:

- Meals provided whilst on shift
- Sales incentives and initiative rewards
- Discounted / Free use of leisure facilities – “Hotel specific”
- Free Car Parking – “Hotel specific”
- Stays in our hotels at discounted prices or
- Even free stays in our hotels as one of our rewards & recognition incentives,
- Opportunities for your personal development within the Hotel Group Brand Portfolio
- Fully funded apprenticeships – T&C’s apply
- Annual Holidays entitlements inclusive of Bank Holidays
- Opportunity to buy additional holiday entitlements
- Pension enrolment

Does the below sound like you?

- Passionate and willingness to learn
- Positive attitude and someone who makes our guests smile
- Genuinely friendly and caring
- Enjoys working as part of a team
- Ambitious and hard working
- Ability to build relationships, internal and external, to the hotel and the Company
- Excellent planning and organizational skills
- Ability to multi-task and meet deadlines
- Good communication and excellent grooming standards
- Eye for detail and a passion for food
- Deliver exceptional customer experiences all the time

Is the Head Chef role for you for you, do you have you the skill set and experience to take on this role? Then what’s stopping you?

Liaise with staff members with regard to rotas, work allocation. Liaising with Food Production & Development Manager and the Food Safety & Quality Assurance Manager, Ward Staff, Senior Catering Supervisor, Catering Supervisors, Maintenance Staff, Transport, Porters and Dieticians. Ensuring that the high standards of kitchen hygiene are maintained at all times, particularly with regard to the safe handling of food, personal hygiene and dress. Assist less experienced staff with training and development. Provide adequate instruction and training in all aspects of departmental procedure. Responsible to ensuring that all documentation relating to individual training records is maintained. Temperature probing of meals and the recording of temperatures in accordance with department policies, ensuring all HACCP critical control points are recorded for each dish produced. Plan daily work schedules to the departments meal service time. When necessary, adjust food service staff rotas in the absence of Food Production & Development Manager and the Food Safety & Quality Assurance Manager. Collation of statistics relating to the ordering and preparation of food. Assist the Food Production & Development Manager and the Food Safety & Quality Assurance Manager in the ordering of goods as appropriate.

Join our team!

Are you a passionate Chef? If so, we'd love you to join our fantastic catering team at The Hyndburn Academy!

This role sits within our Education division - catering for students. Dedicated to providing high-quality, nutritious, fresh, and sustainable food for our younger generation, we're 100% committed to supporting a healthy diet. At Taylor Shaw & Edwards & Blake, we're driven by the knowledge that young people deserve and need the best food for their wellbeing; we do food with a difference.

What you'll be doing...

As a Chef/Cook Manager you will proactively manage teams on site as well as be accountable for recruiting, inducting, training, and supporting colleagues to deliver an efficient, high-quality service to Elior UK, our customer and clients.

Responsibilities:

• Motivating and managing a team
• Controlling and managing a budget
• Accountable for ensuring ongoing team communications, including building internal and external relationships, management reporting and client liaison to enable operational excellence

Elior is committed to safeguarding children and colleagues. Candidates that are shortlisted for this role, will be required to have an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, including Children's Barred List, and two suitable references.

Working Pattern: Monday - Friday, 35 hours per week, term time only

What can you bring?

In this role:

• Genuine interest in customer service excellence
• Focused on the front line
• Proven team leader experience
• Self-motivated and able to work well unsupervised
• Previous experience within catering desirable

Our way of saying thank you...

At Elior, we strive to ensure that our colleagues feel appreciated & rewarded, which is why we offer generous rewards & benefits in exchange for your dedicated efforts.

FREE On-Site Lunches: Enjoy complimentary lunches, saving you time & money while ensuring you stay nourished & energised throughout the day.

Support Your Way of Life:

• Flexible Working: We offer full-time & part-time roles, with varying shift patterns across the business. Allowing colleagues the flexibility to balance their personal & professional commitments
• Term Time Holidays offering you flexibility
• Family Leave: Prioritise family commitments with flexible leave options
• Paid Charity Leave: Make a positive impact with two additional paid days for charity work

Big Enough for Growth, Small Enough to Connect:

• Opportunities for career progression while developing a close-knit community

Supporting You Through Life's Ups & Downs:

• Access mental health support & comprehensive wellbeing benefits

Keeping Finances & Wellbeing in Mind:

• Life assurance, workplace pension schemes, discounts, cashback, entertainment, leisure discounts, & a cycle-to-work scheme

Why it's great to work for us...

Elior is a multi-award-winning people business and one of the UK's leading contract caterers, with over 10,000 colleagues operating across a diverse range of sectors including:

• Workplaces & Office Space
• Sporting Venues & Stadiums
• Attraction & Heritage Sites
• Public Sector & Defence
• Health, Care & Hospitals
• Schools, Colleges & Universities

Along with our purpose of enriching lives everywhere, every day, we're committed to an inclusive culture and want our people to feel appreciated, supported, and fulfilled.

That's why 85% of colleagues tell us how proud they are to work for us!

Elior Celebrates Equality Our aim is to celebrate a culture of equality, diversity, and inclusion, continuing to make Elior a great place to work!

Every colleague has a distinctive set of values, skills, and aspirations. To ensure that we attract, develop, and retain best people from the widest possible talent pool we're committed to providing an inclusive environment where our colleagues fulfil their potential and have the opportunity to succeed.

Curriculum Manager – Hospitality, Travel and Tourism

Salary: £43,511 per annum

Hours: 37 hours per week / 52 weeks per year (331 teaching hours per annum)

Are you looking for a new challenge and an opportunity to become an integral part of a brilliant education business making a real impact on the lives and opportunities of young people? This could be the role for you!

Blackburn College has nearly 700 people employed in a vast range of roles and feels more like a community than a workplace, and this sense of collaboration is just one of the benefits of working here.

Blackburn College ensures its students have the latest skills, knowledge, and experience to excel in these fast-paced sectors. This is a really exciting time to join the department as the College embarks on an ambitious investment programme providing state-of-the-art facilities using low-carbon technologies and revitalising its renowned training restaurant, Scholars, which serves as a hub of experiential learning for both students and the public alike. We ensure our students are work-ready and gain credible industry insight through our extensive enrichment and work experience programmes with leading players in the sector.

We believe that attending college is about more than achieving a qualification and aim to give all learners an opportunity to develop their full potential in a friendly and supportive environment. There has never been a better time to join us!

The Role

As a member of the school management team, you will be responsible for leading and supporting the successful planning, implementation and delivery of all aspects of the Hospitality, Travel and Tourism curriculum and commercial activity. This position involves extensive knowledge and understanding of the curriculum and will require subject specialism to ensure the successful implementation of quality assurance and standards. The role will include operational management of staff and students to achieve the curriculum, school and college key performance indicators.

You will provide academic planning and operational support at curriculum level and have specific responsibility for developing and overseeing student progress and achievement practice, including supporting the Head of School: Customer Services Industries in staffing, timetabling, curriculum planning and sequencing, alongside quality assurance practices within the colleges Quality Cycle.

As part of this post you will be required deliver teaching hours, utilisation hours will be agreed with the Head of School: Customer Services Industries

What we are looking for

Applications are invited from candidates who have an up-to-date knowledge and experience of the curriculum area. This must include understanding of curriculum structures, sequencing and quality assurance processes.

You must be qualified to degree level or have a relevant professional qualification at level 4 or above as well as a recognised teaching qualification at Level 4 or above. Ideally you will also have a Hospitality related qualification at level 3 or above. Successful experience of managing people, ideally in the Hospitality sector is also desirable.

What makes Blackburn College an Employer of choice?

You'll have access to a wide range of benefits and support, including, but not limited to:

• Employee Assistance Programme with a 24/7/365 helpline for advice and support
• Regular Staff Physical Activity Sessions and reduced-price gym membership
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Family-friendly policies
• Free eye tests and contribution to VDU-use-only glasses
• Several food outlets with a variety of menu choices
• A full range of discounted professional Hair & Beauty services provided by the Academy Salon
• Professional bakery offering a variety of fresh breads, cakes, and ready meals.

Closing Date: 9am Thursday 15 August 2024
Assessment Centre Date: Tuesday 27 August 2024

Please click apply and we will email you the full JD, PS & application form. Please demonstrate clearly on your application form how you meet the criteria detailed in the person specification.

We’re looking for a Head Chef to lead the kitchen team in our busy Inn

You will be responsible for a diverse team, cooking from fresh and serving the highest standard of food. Our kitchen could be expected to deliver around one thousand meals per week including breakfast, lunch, dinner, events and room service.

Your day to day;

• You will be responsible for ensuring that ingredients are stored, prepared, cooked and presented to the highest standard and meets our guests’ requirements, complying with food safety guidelines
• Ensuring a clean and hygienic kitchen environment is maintained at all times. Following food safety management procedures and keeping the necessary records that meet internal and external standards
• Development of all menu items and specials, reviewing and refreshing dishes in line with business requirements and other external factors
• Use provided technology to aid menu planning, purchasing and safety procedures
• Collaborate with the Inn’s leadership team to ensure a safe environment for both guests and staff
• You will constantly focus on improving the performance of your team and yourself, consistently achieving targets and delivering results

Who are we looking for?

You will be able to demonstrate a keen business sense, producing menu items and directing a team in line with commercial and customer requirements delivering the highest level of quality.

As Head Chef, you will be someone with a proven track record of designing rotas that allow you to forecast and manage labour costs. You must understand the need to consider team characteristics and their collective productivity, looking to improve and deliver standards in the most efficient way possible.

You will be comfortable collaborating with other senior chefs in the group, sharing best practices in recruitment, retention and developing talented individuals.

From your experience you will be able to identify ways that business strategy, customer profile, culture and constraints influence the development of creative, profitable and competitive menus. You will be able to foresee market and business scenarios that present risks and opportunities to the business.

Someone who can set measurable, challenging goals for all team members, finding ways to improve staff’ knowledge and their approach, coaching and mentoring the kitchen team. Experience of delivering technical training and development content would be beneficial.

You will have a grasp of the principles of supply chain management, waste management, sustainable procurement and working practices in the kitchen. Understanding the principles of profit and loss and recognising how you can support the overall financial performance of the business through an efficient operation, building on past experience to achieve monthly and annual budgets.

In return, we are offering a rewarding role with scope for career progression along with;

• A competitive salary, negotiable dependent on experience
• Wagestream - the ability to access up to 40% of your wages as you earn them each week
• 28 days annual leave (rising to 33 days after 5 years)
• Health cash plan
• Generous employee discounts
• Life assurance
• Bespoke training programmes accessible to all
• An engaging & supportive work environment