Key details
Pay Rate
£13.50 - £27.00
Hours
full-time, weekends
Location
Looe
About the role
Catering Supervisor
Rivermead View Care Home
Looe, Cornwall
40 Hours
Are you a natural leader in the kitchen, passionate about delivering great food and outstanding service?
Do you enjoy being part of a warm and welcoming team, where your efforts directly contribute to improving the lives of others?
We’d love to hear from you!
We’re looking for a motivated and experienced Catering Supervisor to oversee our catering operations. In this rewarding role, you’ll be responsible for leading a small kitchen team, managing stock and budgets, and ensuring our residents enjoy nutritious, well-presented meals every day, all while keeping standards and smiles high.
Benefits & Perks
✔️ £500 refer a friend scheme
✔️ Reward and recognition Schemes
✔️ Supportive team environment
✔️ Uniform, parking, training and DBS provided
✔️ Enhancements paid for weekend
✔️ Enhancements paid for bank holidays
Job Purpose:
You will be responsible for ensuring that all meals are prepared and served to a high standard, in line with individual dietary needs and preferences. This role includes supervising kitchen staff, managing food stocks and budgets, maintaining hygiene and safety standards, and working collaboratively with the wider care home team to support special events and promote resident wellbeing. Your work will contribute directly to improving the quality of life for our residents through nutritious, enjoyable meals in a clean, welcoming environment.
Main Duties & Responsibilities:
- Oversee the day-to-day smooth operation of the kitchen
- Ensure cleanliness, hygiene, and full compliance with Safer Food, Better Business guidelines
- Support in the preparation, cooking, and service of hot and cold meals using our pre-planned menus
- Understand and cater to special dietary needs, ensuring presentation and nutritional standards are met
- Work with the care team and Wellbeing Coordinator to plan catering for events such as celebrations, fetes, and open days
- Maintain detailed records (food temps, fridge/freezer logs, deliveries, waste, etc.) in line with CQC and Food Safety standards
- Order stock, rotate supplies, and carry out regular audits and inventory checks
- Manage the kitchen budget, control waste, and ensure value-for-money catering
What We’re Looking For:
- Kind, compassionate, and genuinely passionate about food and care
- Previous kitchen or catering experience (care home experience a plus)
- Organised, reliable, and confident in leading a small team
- Excellent communication skills and attention to detail
- Ability to complete kitchen reports, audits, and stock management tasks
- Basic knowledge of dietary needs, food safety, and allergy management
- NVQ/Diploma in Catering or willingness to complete one
- Food Hygiene Level 2 or above (or willingness to achieve)
Pay Scale:
£13:50 per hour
£16.88 per hour on weekends
£27.00 per hour on bank holidays
Apply now and begin a rewarding journey in care with a team that values you.
We’re proud to be an inclusive employer and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds. Please note that all roles are subject to pre-employment checks, including an enhanced DBS check and confirmation of the right to work in the UK.
A full job description is available upon request.
Rivermead View Care Home
Looe, Cornwall
40 Hours
Are you a natural leader in the kitchen, passionate about delivering great food and outstanding service?
Do you enjoy being part of a warm and welcoming team, where your efforts directly contribute to improving the lives of others?
We’d love to hear from you!
We’re looking for a motivated and experienced Catering Supervisor to oversee our catering operations. In this rewarding role, you’ll be responsible for leading a small kitchen team, managing stock and budgets, and ensuring our residents enjoy nutritious, well-presented meals every day, all while keeping standards and smiles high.
Benefits & Perks
✔️ £500 refer a friend scheme
✔️ Reward and recognition Schemes
✔️ Supportive team environment
✔️ Uniform, parking, training and DBS provided
✔️ Enhancements paid for weekend
✔️ Enhancements paid for bank holidays
Job Purpose:
You will be responsible for ensuring that all meals are prepared and served to a high standard, in line with individual dietary needs and preferences. This role includes supervising kitchen staff, managing food stocks and budgets, maintaining hygiene and safety standards, and working collaboratively with the wider care home team to support special events and promote resident wellbeing. Your work will contribute directly to improving the quality of life for our residents through nutritious, enjoyable meals in a clean, welcoming environment.
Main Duties & Responsibilities:
- Oversee the day-to-day smooth operation of the kitchen
- Ensure cleanliness, hygiene, and full compliance with Safer Food, Better Business guidelines
- Support in the preparation, cooking, and service of hot and cold meals using our pre-planned menus
- Understand and cater to special dietary needs, ensuring presentation and nutritional standards are met
- Work with the care team and Wellbeing Coordinator to plan catering for events such as celebrations, fetes, and open days
- Maintain detailed records (food temps, fridge/freezer logs, deliveries, waste, etc.) in line with CQC and Food Safety standards
- Order stock, rotate supplies, and carry out regular audits and inventory checks
- Manage the kitchen budget, control waste, and ensure value-for-money catering
What We’re Looking For:
- Kind, compassionate, and genuinely passionate about food and care
- Previous kitchen or catering experience (care home experience a plus)
- Organised, reliable, and confident in leading a small team
- Excellent communication skills and attention to detail
- Ability to complete kitchen reports, audits, and stock management tasks
- Basic knowledge of dietary needs, food safety, and allergy management
- NVQ/Diploma in Catering or willingness to complete one
- Food Hygiene Level 2 or above (or willingness to achieve)
Pay Scale:
£13:50 per hour
£16.88 per hour on weekends
£27.00 per hour on bank holidays
Apply now and begin a rewarding journey in care with a team that values you.
We’re proud to be an inclusive employer and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds. Please note that all roles are subject to pre-employment checks, including an enhanced DBS check and confirmation of the right to work in the UK.
A full job description is available upon request.
What we offer our staff
Training and development
Blue-light cards
£500 refer-a-friend bonus
Loyalty bonus
Reward & recognition schemes to celebrate your hard work
Other essentials
Previous Experience required
About Cornwallis Care Services Ltd
Cornwallis Care Services Ltd started life as a family run business in 1989 and is now one of the largest care providers in Cornwall. We support and care for over 300 people in our residential and nursing homes across the county. From Looe to Penzance, we have a total of 10 care homes and even our own inhouse agency.
Cornwallis Care Services offer long and short-term accommodation and respite care for adults aged 65 plus; many of our residents are living with dementia or other cognitive impairments, some of whom may have complex health needs. Through person centred care we can empower the residents and their loved ones to actively participate in the care, treatment, and daily activities that they receive or partake in.
Here at Cornwallis, we celebrate and acknowledge acts of kindness and we call these ‘Making Moments Matter’. Why not take a look at our website and Facebook page to see more of how we celebrate staff and residents’ moments that matter across our care homes.
Cornwallis Xtra Agency was born in 2018 with the desire to maintain continuity with high quality carers, while providing our residents with the reassurance of a familiar face. This allows us to accommodate staff members wanting more flexibility and a work life balance.
“We want to shout out loud, that our care workers are skilled professionals, who are there day in and day out, in the snow, pouring rain and scorching sun, at night, at Christmas and during the COVID-19 pandemic and we are very PROUD of them all”, says Managing Director, Stuart Clarkson. “People go into the care profession because they care; want to look after people; and because making other people happy is one of the most rewarding jobs in the world.
If you’re a people person, who has compassion and empathy, with the want to improve the lives of others, be that big or small, we would love to hear from you. Whether you have previous experience or not we have a friendly team who will support, train and mentor you into a career in care that you can truly be proud of.
Cornwallis Care Services offer long and short-term accommodation and respite care for adults aged 65 plus; many of our residents are living with dementia or other cognitive impairments, some of whom may have complex health needs. Through person centred care we can empower the residents and their loved ones to actively participate in the care, treatment, and daily activities that they receive or partake in.
Here at Cornwallis, we celebrate and acknowledge acts of kindness and we call these ‘Making Moments Matter’. Why not take a look at our website and Facebook page to see more of how we celebrate staff and residents’ moments that matter across our care homes.
Cornwallis Xtra Agency was born in 2018 with the desire to maintain continuity with high quality carers, while providing our residents with the reassurance of a familiar face. This allows us to accommodate staff members wanting more flexibility and a work life balance.
“We want to shout out loud, that our care workers are skilled professionals, who are there day in and day out, in the snow, pouring rain and scorching sun, at night, at Christmas and during the COVID-19 pandemic and we are very PROUD of them all”, says Managing Director, Stuart Clarkson. “People go into the care profession because they care; want to look after people; and because making other people happy is one of the most rewarding jobs in the world.
If you’re a people person, who has compassion and empathy, with the want to improve the lives of others, be that big or small, we would love to hear from you. Whether you have previous experience or not we have a friendly team who will support, train and mentor you into a career in care that you can truly be proud of.
