Catering Manager
Townfield Primary School, Wirral, Merseyside, CH43 2LH27 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
14 January 2026 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
18 December 2025
Job details
Job role
- Catering, cleaning and site management
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: 34 hours per week/Term Time Only
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- Band G SCP 19
What skills and experience we're looking for
As the Catering Manager, you will manage and control all catering services according to school specifications. You will lead and motivate a team of catering staff to deliver high-quality, pupil-focused meals while maintaining strict budgetary and safety standards.
Key Responsibilities include:
Culinary Excellence: Ensuring prompt preparation of all meals, breaks, and hospitality requirements using high-standard "scratch cooking".
Menu Innovation: Planning balanced, multi-choice menus that meet nutritional standards and cater to diverse dietary and cultural needs.
Team Leadership: Managing, recruiting, and training the catering team, including conducting performance management and organising staff cover.
Operational Control: Managing raw materials, portion control, and all administrative returns (weekly and monthly) accurately and on time.
Service Growth: Organising theme days and promotions to actively encourage pupils to use the service and grow catering sales.
Safety & Standards: Maintaining legal and school standards for health, safety, and hygiene, including the daily use of "Safer Food Better Business" (SFBB).
What the school offers its staff
What We Offer:
🌟 A positive, welcoming school culture built on mutual respect and shared values
🌟 Pupils who are eager to learn, kind, and full of potential
🌟 A collaborative staff team and a highly supportive leadership structure
🌟 Access to trust-wide professional development and wellbeing support
🌟 A school where every team member is valued, encouraged and empowered
Further information about the job
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
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About Townfield Primary School
- School type
- Academy, ages 2 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary school
- School size
- 490 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 2 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Townfield Primary School website
- Email address
- vacancies@remat.org.uk
- Phone number
- 0151 652 8498
Townfield Primary School is a thriving school in Oxton, Wirral and that has come through a challenging period of transition. There are new Trustees and a strong Leadership team with a focus on school improvement with the aim to ensure the curriculum is challenging and stimulating and is designed to suit the needs of our pupils and the community in which we serve.
We require classroom teachers for the vacancies below who:
• Are passionate about children’s learning an ensuring they reach their full potential
• Are committed to keeping our children safe
• Are committed to working collaboratively
• Are able to use ICT to support learning
• Are outstanding classroom teachers who committed to continued professional development.
The successful applicants will be enthusiastic and committed teachers with the knowledge and skills to impact upon the children in their care.
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