Catering Manager

Darwen St Barnabas Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School, Darwen, Lancashire, BB3 2JA

6 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  3 November 2025

• Closing date

  6 October 2025 at 12:30pm

• Date listed

  30 September 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Catering, cleaning and site management
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: Grade 4 SCP 4-6 (£25,185 - £25,989 fte)

Catering Manager job summary

Catering Manager

25 hours per week, part time 

Permanent 

Term Time + 1 week, 45.05 weeks per year

Mrs Ham, the Headteacher and the Governors at St Barnabas Church of England Primary Academy  are seeking to recruit an enthusiastic, dedicated and committed Catering Manager to join our committed & hardworking staff team. 

As the Catering Manager you will have full operational and financial responsibility for your schools catering facility, focusing on delivering the highest quality of food and service as well as having the flair, originality and the ability to make this one of the best school catering offers in the area.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Having full control of the catering operation including stock, food, and labour costs
• Ensuring consistency of food and service standards delivered to the students and staff
• Driving sales through monthly promotions and added value events
• Managing and improving all controllable costs
• Overseeing menu development
• Maintaining company systems & procedures, and legislation
• Carrying out regular audits to ensure standards are being met

About you

• We need someone who shares our passion for delivering exceptional food and service to our schools along with the following skills and experience:
• Craft based experience using fresh ingredients
• Knowledge of health and safety practises
• Financial understanding of gross profit management and achieving sales targets
• Line management experience
• Experience within a similar environment

What we offer:

• A warm welcome from a happy school family with a strong Christian ethos.
• Confident and enthusiastic children who enjoy learning.
• The active support of parents and governors.
• Strong links with our local church, schools and community.
• Opportunities for professional and personal development.
• Motivated and experienced Local Governing Comittee and central Cidari Trust team.
• Eligibility to join the Local Government Pension Scheme.
• Access to health and wellbeing support for you and your family.
• Employment within a Trust committed to equality of opportunity and nationally and locally negotiated pay arrangements.
• Terms and conditions protected through a formal trade union recognition agreement with all the major education and support staff unions, and supported through regular JCNC meetings.
• Access to employee benefits & rewards through Perkbox.
• Cycle to work scheme.

Closing date: Monday 6th October 2025 at 12:30pm

Proposed interview date: Wednesday 8th October 2025 

Please note that in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education 2024, an online search will be carried out as part of our safer recruitment pre-employment checks on shortlisted candidates.

We are a member of Cidari Multi Academy Trust, established in November 2013, a growing educational trust and part of the Blackburn Diocese. Cidari Education is committed to providing high quality education for all children in our academies based on clearly established Christian values and principles.

 Cidari Multi Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The above post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. Any offer of employment will be subject to a satisfactory check supplied by the Disclosure & Barring Service. The check will include any cautions, reprimands or final warnings as well as convictions. Further information is available below.

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

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.

About Darwen St Barnabas Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School

• School type: Local authority maintained school, Church of England, ages 4 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: Up to 210 pupils
• Age range: 4 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/darwen-st-barnabas-church-of-england-voluntary-aided-primary-school

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