Catering Manager
Buttershaw Business & Enterprise College Academy, Bradford, West Yorkshire, BD6 3PX17 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
24 July 2026 at 9am
Date listed
7 July 2026
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
- £30,921.00 - £32,945.00 Annually (Actual) SO1 SCP23-25 £30,921 - £32,945. TTO +10 days. Monday – Thursday 7am-3.30pm Friday 7am – 3pm
Catering Manager job summary
About this Role
Buttershaw Business & Enterprise College is an improving school. We are an ambitious, community-focused academy of just over 1400 students serving an area of social deprivation on the southern edge of Bradford and seven miles from Leeds. BBEC is popular locally and is rapidly becoming the school of choice for the community of Buttershaw.
BBEC is an inclusive school, our school motto is ‘We all belong at BBEC’. We celebrate our differences and our similarities and do not tolerate discrimination of any type. We have a bold approach to inclusion and work so that all students and staff can bring their authentic selves to school.
BBEC has a cohesive, highly skilled and ambitious staff team who work hard to ensure that every student is successful. Many of our students face multiple challenges and it is through clarity of vision, professionalism and determined support for students and for each other that we are bringing about improvement. We have the highest expectations for all our students and expect that our staff teach to the very highest level. We have a rigorous approach to quality assurance and a significant commitment to Continuing Professional Development. Teachers have many opportunities to improve their teaching pedagogy and pedagogical subject knowledge and we expect them to make the most of these opportunities to ensure that the highest of standards are maintained.
BBEC is situated in a modern building. It has well-equipped departments that are arranged in suites of rooms.
All at BBEC are dedicated to raising the aspirations of our students and improving cultural capital through ambitious schemes of learning in all year groups and a varied offer of extra-curricular activities and opportunities. We run trips and visits to places in the UK and across the world, our students take place in a myriad of competitions and our CEIAG programme is exemplary.
We are looking to appoint a Catering Manager to join our professional and dedicated catering team; applicants should have experience of catering in high volume catering operations, hold a City and Guilds 706 (i) and (ii), basic food hygiene certificate (or higher) and have experience of managing industrial or commercial catering operations. .
As Catering Manager, you will have operational responsibility for this secondary school in Bradford, West Yorkshire. You will be focusing on delivering the highest quality of food and service to our students and staff.
Duties to include:
- Planning menus efficiently, to produce high-quality menus on a daily basis, attractive to young people that are compliant with relevant school food standards/legislation
- Ordering and storing of goods in line with purchasing & stock holding procedures
- Managing food production, stock and waste control
- To lead & manage the catering team on a day-to-day basis
- To manage all hygiene, health and safety policies and practices and COSHH regulations in line with the documented schedules, HACCP, due diligence practices and allergen management for a food operation
If you would like to speak to someone about the vacancy, please contact Taffy Brown or Paula Eastwood at Buttershaw Business and Enterprise College on 01274 676285, or by email at paula.eastwood@bbec.bdat-academies.org.
Applications must be received by the closing date of 9am on 24 July 2026. Interviews will take place on 10 August 2026.
Buttershaw Business and Enterprise College 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 subject to an Enhanced DBS Check.
Further information about the job
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 will not be accepted for this application.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About Buttershaw Business & Enterprise College Academy
- Organisation type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- Size
- 1325 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
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