Kitchen Manager
| Posting date: | 23 September 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £15.10 per hour |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 23 October 2025 |
| Location: | UB5 6NL |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | ISS Facilities Services |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 148741 |
Summary
Kitchen Manager
Contract: Education
Location: London, UB5 6NL
Hours of work: 37.5
Working Pattern: Monday - Friday
7am - 2:30pm
(20 mins paid break)
Contract Type: Permanent
Hourly Rate: £15.10
We are seeking a passionate and motivated Kitchen Manager to lead our school catering operation. Your primary focus will be delivering nutritious, high-quality food that supports the wellbeing and learning of our students.
You will oversee all aspects of kitchen management, ensuring compliance with food safety, health & safety, and company standards, while keeping within agreed budgets and targets.
As the first-line manager, you will inspire and motivate your team, ensuring they provide excellent customer service and maintain high food standards every day. Building strong relationships with students, staff, and clients will be at the heart of this role, helping to create a positive dining experience for all.
The Role
Lead and manage the school catering team on a daily basis.
Ensure compliance with Health & Safety, Food Safety, and safeguarding requirements.
Deliver high-quality, nutritious meals that meet cultural, dietary, and allergy requirements.
Manage stock, budgets, and financial reporting to agreed targets.
Drive standards in food presentation, customer service, and portion control.
Build strong relationships with clients, students, and colleagues.
Recruit, train, and motivate staff, ensuring regular communication and performance reviews.
Promote a culture of safety, teamwork, and continuous improvement.
Monitor and act on customer feedback to improve service.
About You
Experience as a Catering/Kitchen Manager, or potential to develop from a catering assistant role with training.
Strong knowledge of school catering, food preparation, and cooking skills.
Understanding of Health & Safety, food safety, and accident prevention.
Ability to manage budgets, stock, and profit & loss.
Excellent communication, organisation, and leadership skills.
IT literacy with kitchen systems (e.g. Cypad) or willingness to learn.
Strong customer service focus with the ability to build lasting relationships.
Positive, proactive, and hands-on attitude.
High energy, enthusiasm, and drive to achieve results.
The Company
ISS is a world-leading workplace and facility management company, connecting people and places to make the world work better. Working with customers day by day, side by side, we understand every aspect of the user experience.
Through a unique combination of intelligent solutions, high standards and people who care, to help our customers achieve their purpose, whether it’s hospitals healing patients, businesses producing the next great innovation, or airports bringing passengers home to their families. ISS is committed to doing business the right way, taking its corporate responsibility very seriously. Our passion is people.
We offer you a challenging and exciting career in an organisation with people at its heart. In ISS, everyone has the opportunity to develop, grow and make a difference. #ISSGreatPeople #ISSTalent #PeopleMakePlace
ISS is proud to be a diverse and inclusive employer.
ISS welcomes all applicants regardless of age, disability, gender identity or gender reassignment, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, race (which includes race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin and caste), religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation or educational background.
We are a Disability Confident Committed (Level 2) employer, proudly supporting and promoting inclusive hiring practices in line with the UK government’s Disability Confident scheme.
Our passion for inclusivity and diversity makes ISS a more creative, productive and happy place to work.
Contract: Education
Location: London, UB5 6NL
Hours of work: 37.5
Working Pattern: Monday - Friday
7am - 2:30pm
(20 mins paid break)
Contract Type: Permanent
Hourly Rate: £15.10
We are seeking a passionate and motivated Kitchen Manager to lead our school catering operation. Your primary focus will be delivering nutritious, high-quality food that supports the wellbeing and learning of our students.
You will oversee all aspects of kitchen management, ensuring compliance with food safety, health & safety, and company standards, while keeping within agreed budgets and targets.
As the first-line manager, you will inspire and motivate your team, ensuring they provide excellent customer service and maintain high food standards every day. Building strong relationships with students, staff, and clients will be at the heart of this role, helping to create a positive dining experience for all.
The Role
Lead and manage the school catering team on a daily basis.
Ensure compliance with Health & Safety, Food Safety, and safeguarding requirements.
Deliver high-quality, nutritious meals that meet cultural, dietary, and allergy requirements.
Manage stock, budgets, and financial reporting to agreed targets.
Drive standards in food presentation, customer service, and portion control.
Build strong relationships with clients, students, and colleagues.
Recruit, train, and motivate staff, ensuring regular communication and performance reviews.
Promote a culture of safety, teamwork, and continuous improvement.
Monitor and act on customer feedback to improve service.
About You
Experience as a Catering/Kitchen Manager, or potential to develop from a catering assistant role with training.
Strong knowledge of school catering, food preparation, and cooking skills.
Understanding of Health & Safety, food safety, and accident prevention.
Ability to manage budgets, stock, and profit & loss.
Excellent communication, organisation, and leadership skills.
IT literacy with kitchen systems (e.g. Cypad) or willingness to learn.
Strong customer service focus with the ability to build lasting relationships.
Positive, proactive, and hands-on attitude.
High energy, enthusiasm, and drive to achieve results.
The Company
ISS is a world-leading workplace and facility management company, connecting people and places to make the world work better. Working with customers day by day, side by side, we understand every aspect of the user experience.
Through a unique combination of intelligent solutions, high standards and people who care, to help our customers achieve their purpose, whether it’s hospitals healing patients, businesses producing the next great innovation, or airports bringing passengers home to their families. ISS is committed to doing business the right way, taking its corporate responsibility very seriously. Our passion is people.
We offer you a challenging and exciting career in an organisation with people at its heart. In ISS, everyone has the opportunity to develop, grow and make a difference. #ISSGreatPeople #ISSTalent #PeopleMakePlace
ISS is proud to be a diverse and inclusive employer.
ISS welcomes all applicants regardless of age, disability, gender identity or gender reassignment, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, race (which includes race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin and caste), religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation or educational background.
We are a Disability Confident Committed (Level 2) employer, proudly supporting and promoting inclusive hiring practices in line with the UK government’s Disability Confident scheme.
Our passion for inclusivity and diversity makes ISS a more creative, productive and happy place to work.
Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme
Disability Confident
About Disability Confident
A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. For more details please go to Disability Confident.