Assistant Catering Manager

Bradford Forster Academy, Bradford, BD4 8RG

6 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  January 2026 or as soon thereafter

• Closing date

  7 January 2026 at 9am

• Date listed

  11 December 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Catering, cleaning and site management
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: Band 6 NJC 7 - 11
• Additional allowances:

  Band 6 NJC 7 - 11

Assistant Catering Manager job summary

Assistant Catering Manager

Band 6 NJC 7-11

Actual Salary starting at £22,707

Term Time Plus 1 Week

Required: January 2026

Bradford Forster Academy is an 11-16 Church of England secondary Academy and part of the Bradford Diocesan Academies Trust (BDAT), a growing Christian Multi-Academy Trust based in Bradford. The Academy opened on 1 September 2015 and now has approximately 1000 students on roll. Within BDAT there is an exciting opportunity to work across a variety of growing diverse schools.

We are seeking to appoint a highly motivated, approachable, and aspiring leader to be our Assistant Catering Manager a true Culinary Co-Pilot! You will promote and help manage a professional, delicious, and courteous service that is consistent with the academy’s ethos (and maybe their collective sweet tooth!).

The successful person will be supporting the Catering Manager in overseeing all kitchen operations, from supervising the team and ensuring perfect portion control to guaranteeing our hygiene standards are rigorously maintained and sparkle-clean. You will be self-motivated, exceptionally well organised (especially when faced with a lunchtime rush!), and a fantastic team player. If you are looking to join an academy with a culture of professional learning and reflection, where your efforts fuel the future generation, then please step up to the plate—we want to hear from you!

The successful candidate will:

• A good level of general education

• Knowledge of basic food preparation

• An ability to understand oral instructions and an ability to read and write in English

• A willingness to undertake training in relevant areas (full training will be provided)

• A caring approach and willingness to work with students

We can offer you:

• An attractive, very well resourced working environment

• Effective and supportive colleagues

• Friendly and well behaved students

Opportunities for personal and professional development

Closing Date: Wednesday 7th January 2026

For full details, application form with information pack, please visit the MyNewTerm website

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff to share this commitment. All posts are subject to an enhanced criminal records check via the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

Commitment to safeguarding

‘Everyone working in or for our school service shares an objective to help keep
children and young people safe and promote each child’s welfare by
contributing to:
• providing a safe environment for children and young people to learn
and develop in our school setting, and
• identifying children and young people who are suffering or likely to
suffer significant harm, and taking appropriate action with the aim of
making sure they are kept safe both at home and in our school setting’

BFA is committed to safeguarding and promoting the wellbeing of all its students.

Applying for the job

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

About Bradford Forster Academy

• School type: Academy, Church of England, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary school
• School size: 969 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Bradford Forster Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/bradford-forster-academy

Bradford Forster Academy, which opened in September 2015 as a new 11-16 Church of England Academy, as part of the new Bradford Diocesan Academies Trust. We currently have 1033 students on roll from years 7 to 11 and Summer 2020 saw our first cohort of students successfully completing their time with us and going on to take up a wide range of local and national Post-16 courses and positions.

Bradford Forster Academy is an exceptional school with high aspirations and ambition for our young people.

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