Kitchen Manager

University of Bath; Bath; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading educational institution in Bath is seeking a Kitchen Manager to oversee kitchen operations, ensuring high food quality and safety standards. The role involves managing a dedicated team, financial control, and preparing meals for various events. The ideal candidate has relevant kitchen management experience, strong leadership skills, and knowledge of food safety regulations. This full-time position offers a supportive working environment and diverse benefits.

Benefits

Free counselling services

Cycle to work scheme

Generous annual leave allowance

Professional development opportunities

Staff discounts on gym and tuition fees

Qualifications

• Experience as a kitchen manager or similar role.
• Knowledge of HACCP and Health & Safety regulations.
• Ability to lead a team in a high-pressure environment.

Responsibilities

• Manage all aspects of the kitchen operations.
• Ensure adherence to food safety and financial procedures.
• Prepare quality food for various functions.

Skills

Food safety

Financial control

Team management

Customer service

Job description

Kitchen Manager

Department: Students' Union

Salary: Starting from £26,338, rising to £29,959 pro rata

Contract Type: Full Time - Term Time, Open-Ended

Closing date: Thursday 14 August 2025

Reference: CC12894

The Students' Union wish to appoint a Kitchen Manager to be based primarily in the Plug & Tub bar.

We are looking for a dedicated and experienced individual who can uphold the high standards of food quality, safety, and service that define the University of Bath’s catering services!

As the Kitchen Manager, you will take responsibility for and manage all aspects of the kitchen, ensuring that procedures regarding financial control, food safety, HACCP, Health & Safety, and staffing are carried out within university guidelines.

You will produce quality food to menu specifications in a high turnover unit and for on-site functions & banquets as required and ensure that your team adhere to the specific roles and responsibilities relevant to them that are included in the Food Safety Management System (FSMS).

You will work with the management team and undertake training to deliver projects that will develop food & beverage offering, management & customer service, and play a key leadership role within our culinary operations.

Further information

This is a full-time role, working 36.5 hours per week, over 33 weeks per year (term time only), predominantly Monday-Friday, with occasional weekend and evening work.

For an informal discussion about the role, please contact Kelly Sheppard, Deputy Commercial Manager.

At the University of Bath, we aim to create an inclusive and supportive working environment. If you're passionate about food, thrive in a team, and are ready to take ownership of a dynamic kitchen, we’d love to hear from you!

We consider ourselves to be a university where difference is celebrated, respected and encouraged. We have an excellent international reputation with staff from over 60 different nations and have made a positive commitment towards gender equality and intersectionality, receiving a Silver Athena SWAN award. We truly believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and backgrounds will lead to a better environment for our employees and students and encourage applications from all genders, backgrounds, and communities, particularly from underrepresented groups, and value the positive impact that will have on the university. We are committed to maintaining a safe and secure environment for our students, staff, and community by reinforcing our Safer Recruitment commitment.

We're very proud to be a signatory of the Armed Forces Covenant, an accredited Disability Confident Leader, autism-friendly university, committed to building disability confidence and supporting disabled staff.

What we can offer you

We're continually expanding our benefits package to better support you and enhance your experience with us, and the below is just an example of some of the many great benefits we offer:

- Free counselling services through Health Assured
- Cycle to work scheme
- Electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme
- Staff discount at Team Bath gym
- Staff discounts on postgraduate tuition fees
- Staff discount on language courses
- Generous employer contributory pension schemes
- Generous annual leave allowance with an additional 5 discretionary days so that you can enjoy a positive work-life balance
- A wide range of personal and professional development opportunities, including Apprenticeships, LinkedIn Learning and more
- Free entry to the Holburne Museum in Bath
- Local discounts and more
- A family-friendly workplace
- An excellent reward package that recognises the talents of our diverse workforce
- Relocation allowance

Find out more about our benefits and watch the video to hear from our staff about what makes the University of Bath a great place to work on our YouTube channel, as well as following us on X and LinkedIn.

Right to Work in the UK:

We do not assess immigration or right to work status until the offer stage. Being invited to interview does not guarantee you are eligible for visa sponsorship, and all offers are conditional on meeting the right to work requirements. Further information is available on our application support webpage.

Anonymous shortlisting

We are constantly seeking to reduce the unconscious bias that enters any assessment process, with the goal of creating an inclusive and equal assessment process. To support this, personal details such as your name may be removed from application forms at the initial shortlisting stage.