Catering Manager

Longridge High; Longridge; Hybrid; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Longridge High School is seeking a leader to develop and manage its in-house catering service, delivering a high-quality, nutritious meals to pupils and staff. You will supervise, train and develop the catering team, plan production, maintain kitchen hygiene, and ensure stock is ordered and controlled within budget.

The role requires strong communication and organisational skills to maintain standards, work within a school environment, and drive the service forward to meet the school's values

Qualifications

• Experience in managing an in-house catering service.
• Ability to supervise, train and develop catering staff.
• Proven ability to plan, control and direct production and service of meals.
• Knowledge of food safety and kitchen hygiene standards.
• Strong communication and organizational skills, with budget and stock control responsibilities.

Responsibilities

• Develop and manage the in-house catering service.
• Deliver an effective and efficient catering facility.
• Lead, supervise and develop catering staff.
• Plan, control and direct production and service of meals.
• Maintain food safety and kitchen hygiene standards.
• Order and manage stock within budget.

Skills

Catering management

Staff training

Stock control

Budget management

Kitchen hygiene

Communication skills

Production planning

Leadership

Job description

Longridge High School is situated on the outskirts of Longridge, a smallmanufacturing and market town between Preston and the Ribble Valley. We have 50+teaching staff and approximately 830 pupils. The school serves the localcommunity and has a large catchment area encompassing neighbouring villages, alarge rural district, and urban areas of Preston. The school was originallybuilt in 1959, with additional accommodation added in subsequent years. Schoolfacilities have been continuously updated and refurbished and the school has anew purpose-built teaching block to take on additional pupil numbers.

We prepare every young person for life through a consistent approach toexcellent behaviour, good manners, and hard work, embodied in our school’s corevalues ‘Respect, Learn, Grow, Together’.

We are looking for:

• A person responsible for the development and management of our in-housecatering service.
• A person to deliver an effective and efficient catering facility.
• An ambitious leader that will encompass the supervision, training anddevelopment of staff.
• A leader that can plan, control and direct the production and service of highquality, nutritious meals.
• A person that has the knowledge and drive in maintaining agreed standards inrelation to food and kitchen hygiene.
• A person with excellent communication organisation skills that has the abilityin ordering and managing the stock control of a range of supplies andequipment within an agreed budget.