Catering Manager
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 19 Rhagfyr 2025 |
|---|---|
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 14 Ionawr 2026 |
| Lleoliad: | Wirral, Merseyside, CH43 2LH |
| Cwmni: | Teaching Vacancies |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 0b93a465-3438-4bb0-aab8-e2e758bd9f93 |
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What skills and experience we're looking for
As the Catering Manager, you will manage and control all catering services according to school specifications. You will lead and motivate a team of catering staff to deliver high-quality, pupil-focused meals while maintaining strict budgetary and safety standards.
Key Responsibilities include:
• Culinary Excellence: Ensuring prompt preparation of all meals, breaks, and hospitality requirements using high-standard "scratch cooking".
• Menu Innovation: Planning balanced, multi-choice menus that meet nutritional standards and cater to diverse dietary and cultural needs.
• Team Leadership: Managing, recruiting, and training the catering team, including conducting performance management and organising staff cover.
• Operational Control: Managing raw materials, portion control, and all administrative returns (weekly and monthly) accurately and on time.
• Service Growth: Organising theme days and promotions to actively encourage pupils to use the service and grow catering sales.
• Safety & Standards: Maintaining legal and school standards for health, safety, and hygiene, including the daily use of "Safer Food Better Business" (SFBB).
What the school offers its staff
What We Offer:
A positive, welcoming school culture built on mutual respect and shared values
Pupils who are eager to learn, kind, and full of potential
A collaborative staff team and a highly supportive leadership structure
Access to trust-wide professional development and wellbeing support
A school where every team member is valued, encouraged and empowered
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment. Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance. Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant): childcare disqualification Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) medical online and social media prohibition from teaching right to work satisfactory references suitability to work with children You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.
As the Catering Manager, you will manage and control all catering services according to school specifications. You will lead and motivate a team of catering staff to deliver high-quality, pupil-focused meals while maintaining strict budgetary and safety standards.
Key Responsibilities include:
• Culinary Excellence: Ensuring prompt preparation of all meals, breaks, and hospitality requirements using high-standard "scratch cooking".
• Menu Innovation: Planning balanced, multi-choice menus that meet nutritional standards and cater to diverse dietary and cultural needs.
• Team Leadership: Managing, recruiting, and training the catering team, including conducting performance management and organising staff cover.
• Operational Control: Managing raw materials, portion control, and all administrative returns (weekly and monthly) accurately and on time.
• Service Growth: Organising theme days and promotions to actively encourage pupils to use the service and grow catering sales.
• Safety & Standards: Maintaining legal and school standards for health, safety, and hygiene, including the daily use of "Safer Food Better Business" (SFBB).
What the school offers its staff
What We Offer:
A positive, welcoming school culture built on mutual respect and shared values
Pupils who are eager to learn, kind, and full of potential
A collaborative staff team and a highly supportive leadership structure
Access to trust-wide professional development and wellbeing support
A school where every team member is valued, encouraged and empowered
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment. Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance. Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant): childcare disqualification Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) medical online and social media prohibition from teaching right to work satisfactory references suitability to work with children You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.