catering coordinator Barrhead, Scotland
Job description
Why work at Include Me 2 Club:
Include Me 2 Club is a fast-paced, growing charity that exists to ensure all children, young people and adults with an additional support need, disability or mental health condition, are equipped to thrive and empowered to contribute at every stage of their lives.
We work with a range of projects, partners and funders to ensure that our specialist services within the sector are strengthened and supported and that provision is member-led, evidence-informed and delivers high-quality outcomes.
General principles for all Include Me 2 Club staff
All Include Me 2 Club staff, volunteers and trainees are expected to work in line with our culture, brand, ethos, values and management principles, in particular by:
- Building and maintaining meaningful, supportive, mutually empowering relationships with and betweencolleagues, partners and members (children, young people and adults).
- Creating and supporting a friendly and trusting working environment, working flexibly and supporting each other in times of high workload or when life gets difficult.
- Accepting personal responsibility for our work and being accountable for delivering results against those responsibilities.
- Recognising that we all have a role to play in all aspects of Include Me 2 Clubs success, in particular, supporting fundraising, storytelling, and involving adults, young people and children in shaping the future of Include Me 2 Club.
Purpose of the post
Do you love experimenting, mixing ingredients and seeing what works? We are passionate about People, Coffee, Food and Cakes - blending them to make social impact through our charity enterprise - Social Blend
We are looking for a passionate, caring and ambitious individual to join our team to oversee the next stages of development and growth of our award winning social enterprise catering operations at Social Blend!
In the past 4yrs Social Blend has grown from one location, to two unique locations with potential to develop new services and opportunities for our communities. It’s still only getting started… we need you to help us make it all it can be!
Initially you will develop Social Blend over two locations based in Barrhead, East Renfrewshire with aspirations to continue to grow its size, impact and reputation. With a plan to expand into 2 new sites over the next 6 months due to potential contract bid and 2 future sites over the next 3yrs, you will be committed to growing the enterprise alongside the charity to make as much social impact and sustainable income.
Our unique Coffee Shops and Cafe Locations support young people and adults with additional support needs, disabilities and mental health conditions to build their skills, confidence and abilities in catering, hospitality and events industry.
Alongside developing our systems and processes, you will oversee the implementation and development of our training programme where trainees undertake a range of training and development to build their employment skills and experiences. Gaining qualifications and skills that assist them into employment with us and elsewhere.
You will have responsibility to develop and grow your team and structures to meet the needs of our sites, contracts, events alongside new developments you introduce.
You will work closely with our senior management team to build your knowledge, experience and awareness in the social care field.
Person Specification:
You will be a self-starter, highly driven and ambitious in your knowledge, skills and ideas. You will have experience of leading a business, a contract site, catering premises or done it yourself previously!
You will have a formal qualification is Catering, Hospitality, Management or blend of skills, knowledge and experience in a relevant and transferrable field.
You will have at least 3yrs experience in working in a catering management role. In similar scale or style of operations like our own.
You will have driving licence and access to a car to commute between sites and transport people or items on occasion.
You will have experience in multi-site outlets and be ambitious to grow the business even more. Into new avenues and opportunities.
You should have a passion and care for making a difference in people lives, and open to learning from people as much as you can teach them.
You will be able to merge catering and social care approaches to continue to grow social blends impact and reach.
You will have experience of management - especially teams of people, building strong connections and relationships. You will line manage a small team of paid employees and will be tasked with developing a structure to support the growth and development of social blend now and as it grows.
You will have strong knowledge, experience and awareness of Healty & Saftey, COSHH, Food Safety, Hygiene regulations, processes and systems.
You will have the ability to connect and relate to people from all backgrounds showing patience and understanding. Understanding the challenges, barriers they face and the role/values of volunteering within our organisation.
You should be an excellent communicator to connect with our Board, Line Mangers, Colleagues, Team, Trainees, Families and Stakeholders.
You will be able to be able to provide written and oral reports, presentations to line managers, board members and external stakeholders.
You should have good level ITC Skills and experience of using Microsoft 365, Office and be able to use a range of the companies Epos Software, Human Resource, Health and Safety and Training platforms.
You will be able to manage a range of tasks, priorities and reporting requirements whilst providing and leading a fantastic service and project standards.
Sounds like a challenge, it is! A highly rewarding one, there isn’t many places like social blend - so as well as develop great teams, products, people and service you get to make some phenomenal impacts and connections along the way!
The role is subject to a PVG Check and clearance as you will be working closely with vulnerable young people and adults.
Get in touch if you feel you fit the bill and criteria for the role
This post is subject to a year by year contract renewal, by the local authority as part of a Public Contract Scotland Tender. Successful Management, Delivery and Contract Achievements will result in further contract being awards and continuation of the role. (The initial scope of the term is a 4 year contract)
Job Type: Full-time
Salary: £28,704.00-£30,784.00 per year
Benefits:
- Casual dress
- Employee discount
- On-site parking
Schedule:
- 8 hour shift
- Holidays
- Monday to Friday
- Overtime
- Weekend availability
Application question(s):
- Tell us what qualifies you to be working in this area? SVQ, HNC, NHD in what area, where you completed your qualifications?
- Social Blend is a training programme for young people and adults, particularly with additional support needs, disabilities and mental health conditions, please tell us about your experience and your abilities to provide training, mentoring and supervising people in previous roles.
- Tell us about your experience of working with young people and adults with an additional support need, disability, or mental health condition?
- Social Blend is a multi-site enterprise, tell us about your experience in managing teams of people, across multiple sites and ensuring standards, service and SLAs are delivered effectively.
- Tell us why you should be our Social Blend Catering Manager? Tell us more about yourself or in particular something we may not have asked already that makes you feel like IM2C and Social Blend is the role for you?
Experience:
- Catering management: 3 years (required)
Licence/Certification:
- Driving Licence (required)
Work authorisation:
- United Kingdom (required)
Work Location: In person
Reference ID: Social Blend – Catering Manager
