Catering Supervisor

Sir Frederick Gibberd College, Harlow, Essex, CM18 6RN

6 days remaining to apply

• Closing date

  14 July 2026 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  7 July 2026

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: £20,074.72 - £23,856.29 Annually (Actual)

Catering Supervisor job summary

About you:

You’ll be an experienced catering professional with a passion for food and high standards of hygiene and safety. Confident in both cooking and team supervision, you'll support the Catering Manager with menu planning, food preparation, and staff coordination—stepping up to lead the team during allocated shifts. You’re organised, reliable, and comfortable taking responsibility, including handling kitchen operations, reporting staff absences, and ensuring procedures are followed. Flexibility to assist with occasional special functions and a hands-on approach to maintaining a clean, safe kitchen environment are essential.

The Trust:

BMAT is a thriving community of schools, committed to providing an outstanding education for every student attending one of our schools. We create environments where individuals matter, confidence flourishes, and every child can achieve exceptional outcomes. We currently oversee seven secondary academies and five primary academies, primarily located in Harlow, with additional sites in Newham and Stansted.

The Trust’s vision is clear - to work together to smash through the barriers that prevent children from becoming confident, high-achieving, and independent individuals.

What can BMAT offer you? BMAT provides a range of benefits to support your personal and professional well-being:

Generous employer pension contribution through Teachers Pensions or Local Government Pension Scheme

Private healthcare benefits, including 24/7 Doctorline access

Home and electronic salary sacrifice scheme

Cycle to work

Discounted Gym membership through salary sacrifice

Lifestyle and discount savings

Workplace nursery fee salary sacrifice scheme via Yellownest

24/7 Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for wellbeing support

Please note: Early applications are encouraged. We reserve the right to close this advertisement prior to the stated closing date should a suitable candidate be shortlisted or appointed.

BMAT Education is committed to safeguarding children; successful candidates will be subject to an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check. In line with Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE) guidance, we may also conduct an online search about any shortlisted candidates as part of our due diligence to identify any matters that might relate directly to our legal duty to meet safeguarding duties, in accordance with Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE)

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

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 will not be accepted for this application.

About Sir Frederick Gibberd College

• Organisation type: Free School, ages 11 to 19
• Education phase: Secondary school
• Size: 880 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 19
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• Website: Sir Frederick Gibberd College website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/sir-frederick-gibberd-college

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