Catering Manager

Great Heights Academy Trust, Halifax, HX4 8JB

13 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  August 2025

• Closing date

  8 July 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  24 June 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: £39,071.00 - £40,882.00 Annually (Actual) (FTE £43,693-£45,718)

Catering Manager job summary

Great Heights Academy Trust are looking to appoint a passionate, dynamic individual to the role of Catering Manager. You will provide support to our Catering teams and lead on the effective functioning of catering services ensuring all our young people are provided with a positive, consistent and highly nutritious meal experience.

You will be responsible for leading a team of Kitchen Managers and their respective teams to deliver a high standard of catering which complies with all applicable food standards, laws and legislation.

The successful applicant will be an enthusiastic, positive, flexible and motivated individual with personal drive. You will be a self-starter, who can work with minimal supervision; proactive, with the ability to see what needs to be done and to prioritise work accordingly. You will have excellent interpersonal skills and communicate effectively with all members of our Trust community.

As well as leading the catering team your main areas of focus will be:

Strategic operations

Enhancing the brand identity

Elevating the dining experience

Service compliance and quality assurance

Implementing guidance and best practices

Operational strategies for value for money

Integrating catering into education

The role will initially be to manage our two secondary academies (The Mirfield Free Grammar and Colne Valley High School) and one of our primary academies (Marsden Junior School).

Once embedded in the role, we will seek your services to audit the provision of catering across the whole Trust creating a unified brand in all settings.

In return you will work with a progressive and forward thinking Multi Academy Trust where there are opportunities for development and career progression. As a Trust we offer many benefits including a generous holiday entitlement, Employee Assistance Programme and contributory pension through the West Yorkshire Pension Fund. Great Heights Academy Trust is a growing multi-academy trust with nine schools in the West Yorkshire area. We are also home to a SCITT, Research School and an English Hub.

We look forward to hearing from you.

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.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

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About Great Heights Academy Trust

• Type: Multi-academy trust
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/great-heights-academy-trust

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