Catering Manager
Five Spires Academy, Lichfield, Staffordshire, WS14 9AN16 days remaining to apply
Start date details
November 2024 (once all safer recruitment checks are complete)
Closing date
15 October 2024 at 9am
Date listed
27 September 2024
Job details
Job role
- Catering, cleaning and site management
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time
Contract type
- Fixed term
Full-time equivalent salary
- £23,114.00 - £23,898.00 Annually (FTE) NJC England & Wales SCP 4-6, 31.5hrs pw, 39 wks per yr ( Term time plus 5 INSET days) actual pro rata salary is £16850-£17418
Catering Manager job summary
Five Spires Academyare looking for a Catering Manager who can whip up a mean mac & cheese, serve up smiles and maybe even master the art of the perfect consistency for custard.
No cape required—just bring your sense of humour, a love for children, and the ability to navigate a lunch rush like a pro. If you can handle the heat of the kitchen (and a few picky eaters), we want you on our team!
Apply now and become the unsung hero of our school’s lunch hour. Providing children with their fuel for school.
A fantastic opportunity has arisen for a Catering Manager at Five Spires Academy . The hours for this role are 07:00am to 13:30pm Mon-Fri, plus 1 additional hour per week (31.5 hours total), during term time, plus 5 INSET days (39 weeks per year).
About the Role
Responsible for the operational efficiency of the catering service, planning, preparation, and presentation of food to the required standard within the budget limitations as agreed with the school management. Maintenance of the highest standards of personnel management, hygiene and health and safety.
Are you:
Hard-working, honest, dependable, and self-motivated?
Capable of establishing good working relationships with staff, pupils, and parents?
An exceptional cook, passionate about healthy, high-quality nutrition?
Committed to teamwork?
Child-centered and solution focused?
If so, you’ll love to work at Five Spires Academy
Our children deserve the best and as a Catering Manager at Five Spires Academy you will be a part of our innovative approach to school catering – REAch2EAT. You will have a passion for cooking and providing high quality meals using fresh, local produce as well as delivering exceptional service to our children.
Food served in school forms a part of our healthy school’s ethos, and exceptional nutrition supports our drive for exceptional opportunities for learning. The successful applicant can expect to work as part of a committed school team as well as a wider support network of our REAch2EAT Catering Team.
We can offer you:
A firm commitment to you and your professional development
Friendly, supportive, enthusiastic, and hardworking colleagues, staff and governors
An inspiring learning community
Encouragement to develop new ideas and the opportunity to make a real difference.
Opportunities to further develop your career within our Multi Academy Trust, REAch2, the largest primary-only academy trust in the country.
A support network within REAch2EAT including our Catering Lead
And, most importantly, AMAZING children just waiting to meet you.
For further information about the role come and visit our school! To book your visit or for an informal discussion, please contact the school office. School visits are encouraged but are by appointment only.
Why work with us
There are over 60 schools within the Trust which means we can offer opportunities including:
▶️Collaboration across other REAch2 schools, both locally and nationally.
▶️ Specialist curriculum support and training from our Trust experts - providing a flightpath for professional development
▶️ A support package for staff wellbeing
You’ll be working for a Trust with big ambitions for all our schools to be 'great'. We want to be national leaders in sustainability; to transform our teaching and learning through digital transformation and to ensure social justice is at the heart of what we do.
Safeguarding, Safer Recruitment and Data Protection
At REAch2 we recognise that those who work in an academy are in a unique position in their care of children. The responsibility for all staff to safeguard pupils and promote their welfare, as stated in Section 175 of the Education Act (2002) is one that is central to our ethos, our policies and our actions. All children are deserving of the highest levels of care and safeguarding, regardless of their individual characteristics or circumstances, and we are committed to applying our policies to ensure effective levels of safeguarding and care are afforded to all our pupils.
We will seek to recruit the best applicant for the job based on the abilities, qualifications, experience as measured against the job description and person specification. The recruitment and selection of staff will be conducted in a professional, timely and responsive manner and in compliance with current employment legislation, and relevant safeguarding legislation and statutory guidance. An enhanced DBS disclosure will be requested for all successful candidates, including a Children's Barred List check if the role meets the criteria for regulated activity.
For more information about our safer recruitment processes, please click here for our Safer Recruitment Policy.
All information is stored securely, and any information supplied by unsuccessful candidates will be destroyed through a confidential waste system six months after the decision has been communicated, in accordance with our information and records retention policy.
The Trust ensures all applicant data is stored and processed appropriately. For further details on how your information will be managed during the recruitment process please refer to our Privacy Notice for Job Applications.
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 Five Spires Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- View all Primaryjobs
- School size
- 229 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Five Spires Academy website (opens in new tab)
School location
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