Catering Manager
The Fountains High School, Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire, DE13 0HB2 days remaining to apply
Job start date
21 April 2025
Closing date
24 February 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
5 February 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
- £24,404.00 - £24,790.00 Annually (FTE) £18767 - £19064 (Actual pro-rata salary range)
Catering Manager job summary
Job Title: Catering Manager
Location: The Fountains High School
Grade/Scale: Support Pay Scale Grade 5 Point 4/5 (£18767 - £19064 - Actual pro-rata salary range)
Contract: 32.5 hours per week, term time only
A fantastic opportunity has arisen for a Catering Manager at Fountains High School part of Esteem MAT.
Have you worked in the catering industry and would like a great work life balance? Here at Fountains High School we can offer you 13 weeks holiday as our catering operation is term time only.
We don't do evenings, weekends or bank holidays ... except the very occasional school fair.
We operate our own catering service in-house. The successful candidate will be responsible for a catering team preparing, cooking and serving food within a busy school kitchen, helping us to maintain our excellent standards of food quality, service and hygiene. We are a friendly team in a supportive and successful school.
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-centred and solution focused?
If so, you’ll love to work at Fountains High School.
Our children deserve the best and as a Catering Manager at Fountains High School you will be a part of our innovative approach to school catering . 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.
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.
And, most importantly, AMAZING children just waiting to meet you.
Please see the attached Application pack including a Welcome from the Head Teacher and more information about Fountains High School and Esteem MAT.
Please review the attached Job Description and Person Specification to learn more about the role and what we are looking for in the successful candidate.
Benefits
- Local Government Pension Scheme (25.2% employer contribution)
- Generous holiday entitlement
- Access to Westfield Health membership scheme including cashback schemes for health and retail benefits, discounted gym memberships, and free confidential advice
Please visit our careers page for more information The Fountains High School, Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire | Teaching Jobs & Education Jobs | MyNewTerm or contact Jane Hunter HR Assistant on recruitment@fountains-high.staffs.sch.uk.
We reserve the right to interview suitable candidates upon application and may close the application process prior to this date
Esteem Multi-Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all its students. We expect all staff, volunteers and agency staff to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be required to undertake a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. The possession of a criminal record will not necessarily prevent an applicant from obtaining this post, as all cases are judged individually according to the nature of the role and information provided.
We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. We welcome applications from all individuals, regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership status.
Commitment to safeguarding
Esteem Multi-Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all its students. We expect all staff, volunteers and agency staff to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be required to undertake a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. The possession of a criminal record will not necessarily prevent an applicant from obtaining this post, as all cases are judged individually according to the nature of the role and information provided.
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 The Fountains High School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- School size
- 236 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- The Fountains High School website (opens in new tab)
The Fountains High School is a 11 to 19 special school within the Esteem Multi Academy Trust situated in Stretton, Burton Upon Trent. The school is presently oversubscribed with 222 pupils on roll including 36 Post 16 students based at Burton and South Derbyshire College (BSDC) campus.
The South Derbyshire Support Centre situated in Newhall – Swadlincote and caters for 26 pupils aged 7-16 with a variety of educational needs with a large number of the pupils having been permanently excluded or at risk of permanent exclusion from local mainstream academies. Both schools share a senior leadership team and local governing body.
At Fountains we pride ourselves on creating rich and exciting learning experiences for all children. All learning in school is highly differentiated and is rooted within four different curriculums' which is underpinned by our school values which are centred on Personal Learning and Thinking Skills which develop each child's character, providing the foundations that we try and live by every day.
Coupled with our school motto, ‘Always achieving out Potential' we ensure that children become empowered learners, who flourish and thrive, preparing them to meet their future aspirations so that they will succeed in life.
Further information about our academy can be found on the website at
https://www.fountains-high.staffs.sch.uk/
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