Cafe Catering Tutor/Manager

Old Moat; Manchester; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 36,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading school in Manchester seeks a passionate individual to lead their student-run café, Cup & Cake. This role combines culinary skills with teaching and mentoring, providing students with hands-on learning experiences in food preparation and customer service. The ideal candidate will inspire and guide students while managing café operations, ensuring a safe and engaging environment. This is a unique opportunity to make a meaningful impact on young people's lives through food and enterprise.

Qualifications

• Manage day-to-day operations with students.
• Guide students in food preparation and hygiene.
• Collaborate with teachers to link activities to curriculum.

Responsibilities

• Lead the café operations and student engagement.
• Foster independence and job-ready skills in students.
• Ensure health and safety standards are met.

Skills

Leadership

Food Preparation

Mentoring

Health & Safety

Job description

About The Role

Contract Type: Permanent
Working Hours: Full Time
Number of Positions: 1
Start Date: 1st September 2025
Salary: £32,115 - £35.235 per annum

North Ridge is an Outstanding specialist support high school for students aged 11–19 with complex special educational needs.

We’re a fast-growing school based across two sites, with a Sixth Form Hub in Cheetham Hill that’s home to several exciting student-led business enterprises.

One of these businesses is Cup & Cake – an award-winning café, open to the public during term time and run by our sixth form students.

The café serves delicious, seasonal meals (often featuring fresh produce from our student-run allotment, The Plot) and offers students meaningful, real-world experiences in catering, customer service, and enterprise.

We are on the lookout for someone who can take the lead at Cup & Cake — someone who loves food, cares deeply about young people, and believes in the power of hands-on learning.

About the Candidate

We are looking for an enthusiastic and committed individual to bring excitement and ideas, and to help to grow this unique café enterprise.

You will manage day-to-day operations with our students, guiding them in food preparation, hygiene and health & safety, all while fostering independence, confidence, and job-ready skills.

This isn’t just a café manager/chef role — it’s part teacher, part mentor, part culinary wizard. You’ll collaborate with teachers and teaching assistants to link food preparation to curriculum goals, adapt activities to meet individual needs, and keep things running smoothly behind the scenes.

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We are fully committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, younger learners and vulnerable adults and we expect all staff and volunteers to share the same commitment. The above post will be subject to enhanced DBS checks, satisfactory references and will be exempt from the provisions of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. DBS Code of Practice which can be viewed here.

This post is also subject to satisfactory references, proof of right to work in the UK in accordance with the Asylum and Immigration Act 1996 and other pre-employment checks where applicable.

We strive to create a fair and inclusive workplace that is as diverse as the communities we serve. We positively welcome applications from all candidates regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy, and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation