Catering Manager
Asset Education, Ipswich, IP4 2LT19 days remaining to apply
Start date details
ASAP
Closing date
1 April 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
25 February 2025
Job details
Job role
- Catering, cleaning and site management
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Fixed term
Full-time equivalent salary
- £38,626.00 - £43,693.00 Annually (FTE) Grade 6 29-34
Catering Manager job summary
Our vision for our school catering is for ASSET Education Catering to provide nutritious, delicious, and affordable meals to students and staff across our Trust schools. By bringing catering in-house, we can ensure higher quality ingredients, greater menu flexibility, and a stronger focus on student health and well-being. Our team of chefs and catering staff will create a positive dining experience that supports learning and fosters a sense of community. It's ambitious and holistic, focusing on much more than just providing food
Our goals are to:
Improve Food Quality: Offer fresh, wholesome meals made with high-quality ingredients.
Enhance Nutritional Value: Meet or exceed dietary guidelines for children.
Increase Sustainability: Prioritise local, seasonal produce, reduce food waste, and minimise environmental impact.
Boost Student Satisfaction: Offer diverse, appealing menus that cater to various dietary needs and preferences.
Achieve Cost Efficiency: Optimise operations to ensure cost-effectiveness without compromising quality.
The purpose of this post is to innovate, develop and sustain a high-quality catering provision across our academy Trust. Capture the imagination of our students with the food that we serve, ensuring they engage with the service and have the right type of meals that allow them to flourish and learn. Leadership and management of the catering staff, including assessing and assisting with training and development. Managing the creation of the menus, supply chain and ensuring that Health and Safety, food hygiene and all other statutory obligations are adhered to. Take responsibility for the operational delivery and management of an efficient and financially sustainable catering model.
This contract will be fixed term for one year in the first instance.
Please see our recruitment pack for further information.
This post will be reporting directly to the Director of Enterprise and will involve working in different locations across Suffolk.
We are excited to welcome a new member to our dedicated and supportive team. If you are ready to collaborate with like-minded professionals and contribute to a thriving learning environment, we look forward to hearing from you. For further details, or to arrange an initial discussion please contact:
Sarah Winter, Director of Enterprise, Asset Education – sarah.winter@asseteducation.co.uk
Please also see our website – www.asseteducation.co.uk
ASSET Education is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020.
The successful candidate will have to meet the requirements of the job description and will be subject to pre-employment checks including an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) and children's barred list check, health check, online search and satisfactory references. Copies of our safeguarding and safer recruitment policies are available on request.
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.
Applying for the job
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs are not accepted.
About Asset Education
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- Multi-academy trust
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