Kitchen Manager - Lynton Primary School

Norse Group; London; On-site; GBP 30,000; Part time

Job summary

South West Norse seeks an experienced Kitchen Manager for Lynton Primary School, ensuring high-quality meal preparation and service. You'll lead a team in providing nutritious meals, focusing on dietary needs, and promoting healthy eating. This role offers professional development within a friendly environment.

Benefits

Access to company benefits package

Opportunities for professional development

Qualifications

• Experience leading a busy kitchen environment.
• Knowledge of menu development and costing.
• Relevant qualification in Food Hygiene.

Responsibilities

• Lead kitchen provision at Lynton Primary School.
• Deliver a varied menu using locally sourced ingredients.
• Manage the catering department for children with specific dietary needs.

Skills

Leadership

Menu Development

Customer Service

Education

Food Hygiene Qualification

Job description

Kitchen Manager – South West Norse

• Salary: £29,556.80 pro-rata, which equates to £14.21 per hour
• Location: Lynton Primary School, EX35 6AQ
• Hours per week: 27.5
• Shift Pattern: Monday to Friday, 8.15am - 1.45pm, Term-time only

South West Norse has an opportunity for an experienced and keen school kitchen manager to lead the kitchen provision at Lynton Primary School, cooking for the West Exmoor Federation schools (Parracombe & Kentisbury) and serving at Lynton Primary School.

You will use your skills and experience to deliver a varied menu using locally sourced, healthy ingredients, and provide excellent customer service for the school. You will be responsible for managing the catering department for children with complex, severe, and profound learning difficulties, including provision of modified diets, catering for allergies, and sensory needs.

You will contribute to menu planning and costing, ensuring the delivery of nutritious lunchtime meals, leading and directing a small on-site team to ensure timely and high-quality preparation.

Your Experience:

We are looking for candidates who demonstrate:

• Experience leading a busy kitchen environment, capable of organising catering staff and being hands-on with meal preparation and cooking
• Knowledge of menu development and costing, with a focus on promoting healthy and nutritious meals
• A relevant qualification in Food Hygiene, with experience applying this knowledge in a catering environment

Our Offer:

All salaries for part-time positions are calculated pro-rata of the full-time equivalent salary based on contracted hours per week.

You will work in a friendly, customer service-focused environment, with access to our company benefits package and opportunities for professional development within a national company.

An enhanced DBS check will be required for the successful candidate, with costs covered by the employer.

We are committed to promoting diversity, equality, and fair treatment in employment practices.

This vacancy may close early once sufficient applications are received. If you do not hear from us within two weeks of the closing date, please assume your application was not successful.