Head of Kitchen

Old Trafford Community Academy, Manchester, M15 4FL

10 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  1st September 2025

• Closing date

  21 July 2025 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  16 June 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 (FTE) The salary stated will be pro-rata based on a 39 weeks per contract at 32.5 hours per week

Head of Kitchen job summary

Head of Kitchen

This is a permanent role working 32.5 hours per week term time only, a total of 39 weeks, 38 term time weeks and an additional 5 days, some of which may be required to work during holiday periods to meet training requirements and other operational needs such as clean down & set up during the summer holiday period.

This is an exciting time to join us as we start a new catering contract working alongside our Catering Business Partner ABM Catering Solutions where you will help to deliver GROW, a healthy, nutritious, home cooked lunch time offering to our 350 pupils.

Our successful candidate will be someone who is willing to work as part of the whole school team, to ensure that our pupils receive high quality meals each day, whilst maintaining a safe & hygienic environment. You will be able to ensure that we meet & maintain the School Food Standards.

Above all, you will help to ensure that lunch time becomes an indispensable part of our school day and helps to complement our pupils learning experience

To succeed in this role you will need to be flexible in your approach to work, be able to work as part of a team as well and have excellent standards and expectations of what our school should look like.

You will have great experience of food preparation, cooking & serving in a busy environment. You will be expected to support the Headteacher & Business Manager in planning and preparing termly menu plans that meet the School Food Standards. Working with our partners ABM catering, it will be your responsibility to manage manage the day to day running of the kitchen, stock control, cleaning , hygiene to which extent a knowledge of HACCP & COSHH will be needed

As Head of Kitchen you will be responsible for the direct line management of the kitchen team with support from ABM and the School Business Manager

As you will be working in a school environment, you must have the ability to work well with and relate to children. Our school has a diverse cultural population as well as a number of children with additional needs.

As part of Focus-Trust, Old Trafford Comunity Academy is committed to safeguarding and protecting the welfare of children and young people. There is an explicit expectation that all staff, trustees, governors and volunteers share this commitment and adhere to all safeguarding policies and procedures. Applicants should be aware that the recruitment process will include an assessment of your suitability to work with children and must be willing to undergo pre-employment checks. Safer recruitment practice and pre-employment checks will be undertaken before any appointment is confirmed. This post is subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. Focus-Trust is an Equal Opportunities Employer and welcomes applications from underrepresented groups and ethnic minorities.

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.

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Commitment to safeguarding

Old Trafford Community Academy is committed to safeguarding children, and this commitment is reflected in our recruitment processes.

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 Old Trafford Community Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 345 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Old Trafford Community Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/old-trafford-community-academy

Old Trafford Community Academy is a very special place. We have a very diverse school community, with an equally diverse range of strengths and needs. We are ambitious for all our children, and committed to going the extra mile to remove barriers to learning. We aim to be a community school in the widest sense of the word, supporting children within the context of their family and their wider communities.

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