Catering Manager (Senior Head Cook)
Waverley Academy, Doncaster, DN4 0UB11 days remaining to apply
Start date details
February 2025
Closing date
23 March 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
10 March 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
- £28,624.00 - £30,559.00 Annually (Actual) Part-time, term time role - 40 weeks per year - actual salary £20,816 - £22,224 per annum
Catering Manager (Senior Head Cook) job summary
Waverley Academy have an exciting opportunity for a Catering Manager to join their team!
As a Catering Manager you will lead teams of Cooks and Catering Assistants. They are responsible for running the day-to-day catering operations and services in school. Catering Managers are responsible for monitoring the quality of the food and service and for making sure that their outlets perform well. The most important part of the job is achieving good quality food, maintaining high standards of hygiene and customer satisfaction whilst working within a budget.
We are looking for:
- Excellent organisational skills including the ability to multitask and organise workload
- Great communication skills. Communicating effectively with different internal and external stakeholders.
- Excellent team working skills including communication and prioritisation
- Experience working in professional kitchens.
About Us:
At Waverley Academy, children are at the centre of everything we do. We teach academic knowledge and skills as well as developing the whole child, in order to prepare pupils for their next stage of education and to enable them to lead active and happy lives. The knowledge and skills we teach through an enjoyable and engaging curriculum, ensure pupils leave Waverley fully prepared for later life, with memories they will never forget!
In return, we can offer you:
- Excellent CPD opportunities
- A strong caring ethos and supportive team
- The opportunity to make a real difference
- Enrolment into the Local Government Pension Scheme
- An induction package
- Networking opportunities across the wider Astrea Academy Trust team.
Interested in applying?
Please take a look at the Applicant Brief to find out more before applying.
We actively welcome visits and discussions about the role - please contact Sky Gray - 07391401038 - sky.gray@astreaacademytrust.org - for more information.
If you are joining us from another school, academy or trust we recognize your continuous service date with confirmation from your current employer. This can positively impact a number of entitlements, including increased annual holiday payments which represent an increase in salary. This can be discussed in more detail at interview.
Astrea Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. We expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All posts are subject to satisfactory background checks including references and enhanced DBS checks.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early - please apply now to avoid disappointment.
The Astrea Resourcing Team supports this job advert. Agency involvement is not required.
Commitment to safeguarding
Astrea Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and staff. Every child should feel safe and should be protected from any form of child abuse. We have robust policies and procedures that support our commitment to Safeguarding, this includes our Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy. The in-house Safeguarding teams at each Academy work in partnership with families and safeguarding partners to ensure the safety of children is paramount. We are committed to ensuring that all staff access regular, contextual safeguarding training to meet the needs of the local community.
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 Waverley Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 200 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Waverley Academy website
At Waverley Primary Academy, children are at the centre of everything we do. We teach academic knowledge and skills as well as developing the whole child, in order to prepare pupils for their next stage of education and to enable them to lead active and happy lives. Our values of Tenacity, Empathy, Curiosity, Scholarship and Happiness run through all parts of school life and create a calm, happy and hardworking atmosphere with a strong commitment to all pupils achieving their full potential, regardless of their starting points.
Pupils start their learning journey with us in Foundation Stage where our provision, both indoors and outdoors, allows them to develop their investigative skills, test their ideas and to learn the basics of number and language. Our curriculum then develops these skills further, as pupils grow through school. The knowledge and skills we teach through an enjoyable and engaging curriculum, ensure pupils leave Waverley fully prepared for later life, with memories they will never forget!
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