Chef

Limelight is our unique £20 million extra-care home within a thriving community hub. It’s a ground-breaking development that designed to help residents and the community start well, live well and age well. Limelight offers 81 Extra Care apartments for those aged 55 and over and offers peace of mind of specialist care and support on-hand.

We are now looking for an experienced and forward-thinking Chef to prepare meals for our café, conference and celebratory events, and the onsite nursery. You will assign work in the kitchen, interview and train staff, take responsibility for kitchen inventory management and partner with the Operations Manager to come up with the delectable new dishes for our menus.

The Person:

Are you passionate about food? Would you like to make a difference in your local community? If so, this could be the role for you!

We’d like you to be positive and pro-active, responsive to community needs and with a keen eye on delivering value for money offer. You’ll have experience as a Chef in a full-service restaurant and be dedicated to food quality and control. With excellent communication and organisational skills, you will be comfortable working at pace and have previous supervisory experience to include managing and developing staff.

The Trust:

Trafford Housing Trust (THT) is an independent housing company providing more than 9,000 quality affordable homes within the Trafford area of Manchester and across the North West. We have recently joined the L&Q Group, in an exciting deal that will see us build 20,000 new homes across the NW. This represents ambitious growth and a huge vote of confidence in THT’s team and track record.

What Trafford Housing Trust can offer you

Trafford Housing Trust encourages a healthy work/life balance with family friendly policies and we offer an attractive benefits package for employees, as well as a competitive and transparent system of pay and reward. These benefits include:

• Excellent training and development opportunities
• Access to the Social Housing Defined Contribution pension scheme
• Free Trafford Leisure Gym Membership
• Access to Westfield Health Plan
• Annual leave allowance of 31 days per annum

We’re actively building diverse teams and encourage applications from everybody. We want to create an inclusive environment where everyone can contribute their best work and develop to their full potential. We celebrate our differences and recognise the importance of our teams reflecting the communities we serve.

Trafford Housing Trust reserve the right to close the vacancy early, should we receive a high number of suitable applications and therefore we would encourage an early submission.