Do you have experience leading a kitchen? Do you think you can handle the heat of managing a team of cooks?

Well, If you can work 37.5 hours per week, on a £24,000 salary, gaining invaluable leadership experience on your CV, this Chef Manager role could be the role for you.

It is our featured job of the week, and one of hundreds of Macclesfield vacancies listed on the Macclesfield Nub News Jobs section.

East Cheshire Hospice is a good cause located on Macclesfield's Millbank Drive, and has offered excellent care to individuals and their families suffering from a life-limiting illness.

They're after their next Chef Manager, and you have less than a fortnight to apply!

East Cheshire Hospice said: "Are you an excellent team leader – are you able to develop and manage our in-house catering department?

"Can you provide and innovative and high quality food service for patients, staff and visitors?

"If so, East Cheshire Hospice wants to hear from you!

"You will be leading a team of 6, plus volunteers, that provides home-cooked style food to patients, staff and visitors.

"We are looking for a highly innovative, creatively minded Chef Manager who is willing to develop our in-house food service.

"You will have good initiative, excellent communication skills, the ability to stay calm under pressure and work effectively within set timeframes.

"You will have experience of managing, motivating and training a catering team within a charity, hotel or clinical environment. You will have a Level 3 NVQ qualification or equivalent and a good knowledge of relevant Health and Safety, Food Safety and HACCPs.

"You will be responsible for planning staff rotas and managing the department budgets and resources in order to maintain high quality products. You will be required to work flexibly over a 7 day period."

Benefits for the successful candidate include SEVEN WEEKS paid holiday, free parking to their Millbank Drive site, which can also be used when you're not working, access to paid training and education opportunities and subsidised meals at the hospice.

There's also a free DBS saving you £44, which some similar jobs of this kind make you pay for!

There's also a brilliant pension, and a decent salary funded by donations to the trust, from the good people of Macclesfield.