Trust Catering Business Officer

Victorious Academies Trust, Ashton-Under-Lyne, OL6 9RU

11 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  15 January 2026

• Closing date

  15 December 2025 at 9pm

• Date listed

  4 December 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Catering, cleaning and site management
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £43,554 -£47,450

Trust Catering Business Officer job summary

The Trustees at Victorious Academies Trust would like to appoint a Trust Catering Business Officer at C/O Inspire Academy, Mossley Road, Ashton-under-Lyne, OL6 9RU. 

To start: 15th January 2026

Trust Catering Business Officer full-time salary £46,142-£50,269

This is a permanent, full-time role, 36 hours per week, Term Time Only Plus 4 weeks with an actual salary of £43,554-£47,450 (TMBC Grade 1.1+ Points 35-39)

Our Trust’s vision is to support young people to develop the aspiration, motivation and to be successful; we have high ambitions for all young people in our academies and all roles at our Academy are central to ensuring that we work to support this.

Victorious Academies Trust are looking to appoint an enthusiastic, hardworking and strategic thinking Catering Business Officer to develop Victorious Academies Catering.

Victorious Academies Catering has been a yearlong project taking 12 of our Trust Schools catering in-house, ensuring that children from Nursery to Year 6, across all our schools, receives a well-balanced, tasty meal every day.

This role would be suitable for someone who has experience of leading and managing the HR of people across multiple kitchens, ensuring compliance with health and safety and finance procedures and developing a business strategy for growth.

Victorious Trust Academy is fully committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. The post will be subject to an enhanced DBS check and satisfactory references.

For more details about the role please see attached Job Description and Person Specification.

For more details about our Trust and our schools please see attached Trust Recruitment Pack.

The proposed timescale for the selection and interview process is as follows:

• Applications close at 09:00 on Monday 15th December 2025 although the Trust reserve the right to close the process early if suitable candidates are identified through our selection process.

• Interviews will take place on Wednesday 17th December 2025

Please note we may close the advert as soon as sufficient applications have been received, so if you are interested in applying, please do so as soon as you are able.

Victorious Academies Trust has a commitment to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and/or young people. We have robust processes and procedures to reduce risk and continuously promote a positive culture of safeguarding amongst our workforce. The role described involves working with children and/or young people and is subject to Victorious Academies Trust’s Safer Recruitment Process.

All support staff roles within our Trust have a probationary period of three months.

All posts require an enhanced disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).

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

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 Victorious Academies Trust

• Type: Multi-academy trust
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/victorious-academies-trust

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