Catering Manager

Cater Link Limited; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player in education catering is seeking a passionate Catering Manager to oversee meal services at a prominent academy. This hands-on role requires a commitment to providing nutritious and delicious food to students, ensuring compliance with health and safety standards. With a focus on professional development and a supportive work environment, this opportunity allows you to make a significant impact on the lives of young people while enjoying a great work-life balance with term-time hours and no weekends. Join a team dedicated to excellence in food service and child welfare.

Benefits

Blended Learning Programme

Employee Discount Platform

Employee Assistance Program

Virtual GP Benefits

Pension Scheme Eligibility

Qualifications

• Experience in a similar catering environment at a managerial level.
• Strong health and safety and food safety knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Ensure nutritionally balanced meals are provided to students.
• Lead a hands-on team to deliver exceptional catering services.

Skills

Communication Skills

Organizational Skills

Health and Safety Knowledge

Food Safety Knowledge

IT Literacy

Passion for Food and Service

Education

Formal Qualifications (e.g., Apprenticeships)

Job description

Caterlink is the education sector catering specialist. For over 20 years, the Company has delivered fresh food solutions to pupils and staff at Primary Schools, Secondary Schools, and Colleges across the UK. The company caters more than 1,000,000 meals a week. Our “Fresh Food Policy” is the foundation of our success and growth in the market coupled with a desire to truly deliver on the promises we make to our clients and support our site-based teams.

Job Description

We are looking for an experienced Catering Manager at Ellis Guilford Academy, who wants to ensure our future generations are provided with nutritionally balanced and tasty food. We serve thousands of meals every day across the UK and want this exceptional service to our schools and colleges to continue.

We therefore need you to be well presented, organised, possess great communication skills, and have a genuine passion for what you do. We really want you to demonstrate a real passion for food and service, having worked in a similar environment at a similar level. The role will be hands-on, working with your team. Sound health and safety and food safety knowledge, as well as a good understanding of GP calculations and IT literacy skills, will massively help you be successful in the role.

Caterlink is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all employees to share this commitment. An enhanced DBS disclosure will be obtained for this role.

Caterlink strives to always provide a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment for all our teams where every individual is treated with respect, integrity, and has the opportunity to grow and be treated equally and with fairness at all times.

Additional Information

There are many advantages to working for us including:

1. With Caterlink, you have the opportunity to a blended learning programme that can include formal qualifications including Apprenticeships, classroom training, eLearning, and on-the-job training to support and encourage your development and enable you to be the best you can be. Everyone who joins us is provided with an induction where they learn more about us and enable them to be the best they can be. We invest in development opportunities and are always looking to recruit, train, and retain the best people for our own future talent and your own future development.
2. Working for Caterlink ensures you are able to enjoy a great work/life balance – this is the beauty of working term-time only and no weekends!
3. We offer you access to our Employee Discount Platform where you can make great savings at supermarkets, cinema, restaurants, as well as holiday discounts, family days out, and many more!
4. Our Employee Assistance Program and Virtual GP benefits are there for you and your family to use free of charge at any time.
5. You may be eligible to join our Pension scheme.