Unit Catering Manager Level 2

Birchfields Primary School, Manchester, M14 6PL

3 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 September 2025

• Closing date

  25 July 2025 at 3pm

• Date listed

  1 July 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Catering, cleaning and site management
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time: 35 hours per week, 39 weeks per annum (term time only plus 5 INSET days)
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £28,163 per annum (full time / full year) Actual salary pro rata for term time only (£23,604)
• Pay scale: Grade 5 SCP 13

What skills and experience we're looking for

The governors wish to appoint an enthusiastic, hardworking and highly motivated Catering Manager to join our school catering team from September 2025.

The management of the school kitchen will transfer to the school in September and we are looking for an experienced Catering Manager to oversee the efficient management of the kitchen. The successful candidate will be responsible for the effective running of the in house school catering service, ensuring that high standards are maintained including school food regulations, food safety and health and safety requirements, financial targets and customer service whilst providing a welcoming and efficient service to the pupils.

The successful candidate will be able to supervise and lead the catering team. They will have a passion for serving high quality, freshly cooked meals, focussing on delivering the highest quality food to maximise meal uptake whilst ensuring value for money and meeting School Food Standards and food hygiene and safety regulations.

What the school offers its staff

Birchfields is a very large, multicultural school and we are looking to appoint support staff who can work well with pupils and staff. The school catering provision provides an essential service and our catering team will form an integral part of our school community.

Birchfields Primary can offer you:

- The support of a dedicated governing body and staff

- A supportive and inclusive working environment

- Highly effective safeguarding procedures

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.

We cannot accept CVs and the school's application form must be used and completed in full. Applications received without a completed application form will not be considered.

Completed application forms should be retuned to admin@birchfields.manchester.sch.uk

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

Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to admin@birchfields.manchester.sch.uk

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

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About Birchfields Primary School

• School type: Local authority maintained school, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 625 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Birchfields Primary School website
• Email address: admin@birchfields.manchester.sch.uk
• Phone number: 01612243892
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/birchfields-primary-school

Birchfields is a large (640 pupils) and effective three-form entry primary school and nursery on an extensive site in south Manchester.
Nearly 2/3 of our children have a first language other than English, including Urdu, Bengali and Somali, and the school’s annual budget is just over £4m. Our current PAN is 720 and around 45% of our children are eligble to receive free school meals. We’ve served our multicultural and diverse neighbourhood for nearly a century, and we are excited about what the future holds for our close-knit and supportive school community.

We are proud of our welcoming, busy, happy school, where children feel secure and behaviour is impeccable. We hope that our Birchfields children will become happy, confident adults who make a positive contribution to the lives of others. We want our children to be team players who are articulate, courageous, tenacious, inquisitive and creative. All children have opportunities to take responsibility, build their self-esteem and develop their self-confidence. Success is promoted and progress and achievement are celebrated regularly with our whole school community.

Equality, respect, resilience, honesty, good health and kindness are at the core of everything we do at Birchfields. We are an inclusive school, where all are given equality of opportunity regardless of gender, special needs, sexual orientation, religion, disability or race. Our recent Ofsted report (October 2024) highlights the outstanding behaviour and attitude of our children, as well as the ‘harmonious atmosphere’ throughout the school. Moreover, staff told inspectors that they felt ‘lucky to work at the school’ and that ‘they feel valued’.

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