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  • Start date details

    As soon as possible

  • Closing date

    6 February 2025 at 11:59pm

  • Date listed

    22 January 2025

Job details

Job role

  • Catering, cleaning and site management

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Working pattern

Full time: Please see JD for further information.

Contract type

Permanent

Hourly rate

£16.00 - £17.11 per hour

What skills and experience we're looking for

Location: Avanti Grange, Bishop’s Stortford

About us and the role

Are you a passionate culinary professional ready to take on an exciting leadership role?

Join Govinda’s Catering as a Chef Manager, where you’ll oversee kitchen operations, create delicious and nourishing vegetarian meals, and make a meaningful impact in our schools.

At Govinda’s, we pride ourselves on providing high quality food that uplifts both body and mind.

As a Chef Manager, you’ll ensure top-quality food production, maintain high standards of health and safety, and lead a dynamic team dedicated to delivering exceptional service.

If you’re ready to combine your culinary expertise with purpose and leadership, we’d love to welcome you to our growing family!

What will you do?

  • Plan, design, and execute creative vegetarian and vegan menus that reflect Govinda’s commitment to providing nutritious, sustainable, and well-balanced meals. Ensure that all dishes are both innovative and aligned with the organisation's values, offering variety and flavour while minimising environmental impact.
  • Lead, mentor, and motivate a team of kitchen staff to foster a positive and productive work environment.
  • Ensure the Govindas Kitchen operates efficiently, adheres to budgetary targets, and consistently delivers the required level of service.
  • Conduct regular risk assessments and ensure all team members are trained in safe working practices, including proper handling of equipment and hazardous substances.
  • Manage catering for special events, hospitality requests, and bespoke functions, ensuring creativity and precision

What are we looking for?

  • Proven leadership kitchen experience
  • A strong understanding of food hygiene and kitchen health and safety.
  • Able to lead, mentor, and motivate a team of kitchen staff
  • Oversee and deliver recipe development
  • Good understanding of inventory management, procurement, and cost control
  • Commitment to the safeguarding and welfare of all students

Please view the full Job Description for more information on the responsibilities and essential criteria required for this role.


What the school offers its staff

Govinda's is dedicated to promoting healthy minds and bodies through nutritious and delicious vegetarian meals. With 10 years of experience, our philosophy is to inspire people to feel good in every aspect of their lives through enjoyable and nourishing food.

We understand the importance of meeting individual needs, by promoting a better understanding of nutrition and the importance of a balanced and varied diet.

Why should you apply

Avanti exists to help each person become a well-rounded human being through intellectual, moral and spiritual growth, and so make the world a better place.

You will be working in a fantastic environment, with:

  • Great opportunities for professional development
  • Pension scheme (subject to eligibility)
  • O2 discounts, Specsavers corporate eye test vouchers
  • Eligible for NUS Card and CSSC membership
  • Well-being programs (retreats, yoga, wellness apps)
  • Cycle-to-work and Electric Vehicle Lease Schemes


Further details about the role

Pre-employment checks

Avanti Schools Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and requires all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All successful candidates are required to have an Enhanced DBS check unless internally appointed and still within the cycle of DBS re-checks.

Any appointment subsequently made will be subject to the receipt of satisfactory references and other pre-employment checks.

Diversity and Inclusion

We want to make sure we are attracting the widest possible range of people and ensure that they are accepted, understood and treated equally when they work here. This means we will work hard to understand that each employee is unique and ensuring that individuals or groups are not treated differently or less favourably on the basis of specific characteristics.

Such characteristics include (but are not limited to) age, disability, gender including transgender, race, religion, sexual orientation, marital status, and how the school supports pregnant women and new parents.

Commitment to safeguarding

Avanti Schools Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and requires all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All successful candidates are required to have an Enhanced DBS check unless internally appointed and still within the cycle of DBS re-checks.

Any appointment subsequently made will be subject to the receipt of satisfactory references and other pre-employment checks.

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About Avanti Grange Secondary School

School type
Free School, ages 11 to 18
Education phase
Secondary
School size
297 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 18

Avanti Grange is a school that is committed to giving all children an engaging and enriching educational experience. We provide a richly diverse and connected school environment, representative of the world that our pupils will enter. Our pupils mature into individuals who are ambitious, open-minded and confident. Along with our academic pathway, we also take care to support individual character formation and spiritual insight through The Avanti Way.

Each pupil at our school is celebrated for their individual talents. For our pupils’, school is about exploring strengths and developing academic and personal skills that will ensure that every child is well prepared for the quickly changing world that awaits them. It is our promise that we will create an environment of challenge, enjoyment and collaboration, both within our school and throughout the Avanti Schools Trust and beyond.

Avanti Schools support each person’s life journey along three parallel paths: Educational excellence; Character formation; and Spiritual insight.

Avanti’s unique ethos places a key emphasis on each individual’s wellbeing and good mental health. Children with higher levels of emotional, behavioural, social, and school wellbeing, on average, have higher levels of academic achievement and are more engaged in the school community. All our schools share a dedicated approach to wellbeing, from providing yoga and mindfulness sessions, sports and exercise, charity work, and working with parents and carers as co-educators.

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