Catering Team Leader

ISS; Haywards Heath; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 27,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Term-time only contract

Annualised pay

Enhanced DBS check provided

Job summary

ISS is seeking a Catering Team Leader in the United Kingdom to oversee daily catering operations within a school environment. You will lead and motivate the team to deliver high-quality meals while maintaining food safety, safety, and customer service standards.

The role involves building strong relationships with students, staff, and colleagues, managing stock and reporting, and ensuring compliance with policies.

Qualifications

• Experience in catering supervisory or management is desirable; full training is provided.

Responsibilities

• Lead and motivate the catering team to deliver excellent food and service standards.
• Ensure compliance with food safety, health & safety, safeguarding, and company policies.
• Deliver high-quality meals in line with menus, dietary requirements, and food standards.
• Build positive relationships with clients, students, and colleagues.
• Manage stock, ordering, food production, and waste control effectively.
• Maintain accurate records and complete required reporting.

Skills

Team leadership

Food safety

Communication

Organisational skills

Customer service

Job description

Are you passionate about great food, excellent customer service, and leading a successful team?

Join ISS and play a key role in delivering nutritious, high-quality meals that enhance the school day for students.

As a Catering Team Leader, you'll oversee the day-to-day catering operation, leading and motivating your team to deliver an outstanding dining experience while maintaining the highest standards of food quality, safety, and customer service.

You'll build strong relationships with students, school staff, and colleagues, helping to create a welcoming environment where great food is at the heart of the school community.

At ISS, you'll be part of a company that values its people and provides opportunities to learn, develop, and grow. One of the key benefits of this role is the term-time-only contract with annualised pay. This means your salary is spread evenly across 12 months and paid monthly, giving you the security of a regular income throughout the year, including during school and college holiday periods.

The Role

• Lead and motivate the catering team to deliver excellent food and service standards.
• Ensure compliance with food safety, health & safety, safeguarding, and company policies.
• Deliver high-quality meals in line with menus, dietary requirements, and food standards.
• Build positive relationships with clients, students, and colleagues.
• Manage stock, ordering, food production, and waste control effectively.
• Maintain accurate records and complete required reporting.
• Experience in a catering supervisory, team leader, or management role is desirable but not essential as full training is provided.
• Food preparation and customer service skills desirable.
• Good understanding of food safety, health & safety, and compliance requirements.
• Excellent communication, organisation, and team leadership skills.
• Ability to build positive relationships with a wide range of stakeholders.
• A proactive, and customer-focused approach.
• As this role is based within a school environment, successful applicants will be required to complete an Enhanced DBS check. ISS will arrange and cover the cost of this as part of the onboarding process.

ISS is a world-leading workplace and facility management company, connecting people and places to make the world work better.

Working with customers day by day, side by side, we understand every aspect of the user experience.

Through a unique combination of intelligent solutions, high standards and people who care, to help our customers achieve their purpose, whether it's hospitals healing patients, businesses producing the next great innovation, or airports bringing passengers home to their families.

ISS is committed to doing business the right way, taking its corporate responsibility very seriously. Our passion is people.

We offer you a challenging and exciting career in an organisation with people at its heart. In ISS, everyone has the opportunity to develop, grow and make a difference.

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ISS is proud to be a diverse and inclusive employer.

ISS welcomes all applicants regardless of age, disability, gender identity or gender reassignment, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, race (which includes race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin and caste), religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation or educational background.

We are proud to be a Gold Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) award holder and a signatory of the Armed Forces Covenant, recognising our commitment to supporting veterans, reservists, and military families. Through our Joint Forces Programme, we provide mentoring and support to members of the Armed Forces community and their spouses as they transition into civilian careers.

We are a Disability Confident Committed (Level 2) employer, proudly supporting and promoting inclusive hiring practices in line with the UK government's Disability Confident scheme.

Our passion for inclusivity and diversity makes ISS a more creative, productive and happy place to work.

To find out more about what we do go here - https://www.uk.issworld.com