School Catering Manager

Bolton Council; Greater Manchester; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 20,000; Part time

Job summary

Bolton Council in Greater Manchester is seeking a hands-on school catering supervisor to manage a busy school catering operation, ensuring quality and consistency of service across all sites.

The role requires practical cooking skills for large numbers, strong organisational abilities, and experience with portion control, budgeting and ordering; it is a permanent, term-time contract (30 hours per week).

Qualifications

• NVQ level 2 (catering) or City & Guilds (catering) qualification or equivalent.
• Age 18+ required.
• Experience cooking for large numbers with understanding of portion control, budgets and ordering.

Responsibilities

• Manage the overall operation of a school catering service.
• Monitor and control quality and consistency of service.

Skills

Practical cooking for large numbers

Organisational skills

Budgeting

Ordering

Education

NVQ level 2 (catering) or City & Guilds (catering) qualifications or equivalent

Job description

Grade D scp 6 £18,201 to scp 11 £19,709
Contract: permanent term time only
Hours: 30 per week
Essential qualification: NVQ level 2 (catering) or City & Guilds (catering) Qualifications or equivalent
Age restrictions apply 18+
Interview date: TBC
For further information about this role, contact: [e-mail]

Unfortunately, we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role.

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The Role

You’ll be responsible for the overall management of a school catering operation, monitoring and controlling the catering service to ensure that quality and consistency of service are maintained at all times.

About You

You’ll need great practical skills are essential for this hands‑on role. You will need to be determined, energetic with great organisational skills, used to cooking for large numbers, and ideally have a school catering background with an understanding of portion control, budgets and ordering.

About Us

This is your opportunity to join us at an exciting time as we have strong ambitions for the borough.

Bolton is a great place to work. We are a welcoming organisation that wants to contribute to a place where people feel active, connected and prosperous. We are passionate about improving the outcomes and experience of Bolton people. We want Bolton to be a vibrant place built on strong cohesive communities, successful businesses and healthy, engaged residents.

As an employer we want to thank our employees for their hard work and commitment, by giving them the opportunity to access a range of exclusive rewards and benefits, including discounts and exclusive gym membership prices and salary sacrifice schemes. In addition, we offer a generous annual leave allowance, flexible work opportunities, access to a Pension Scheme, as well as a range of employee wellbeing and support services.

Our Values are really important to us, read all about them below, along with all our great staff benefits, the job description/person specification for the role and the important legal bits, and our Top Tips too.

Within Greater Manchester, local authorities have made a commitment to improve the employment opportunities for people with disabilities, care leavers, carers, and ex‑military personnel. Please see greater.jobs for further information before you apply.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable adults and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
DBS (Disclosure and Barring Service) clearance - this post is covered by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (amended in 2013). Employment offers are conditional subject to satisfactory clearances. For roles where a criminal records check from the DBS is required, this includes satisfactory clearance of this check. The possession of a criminal record will not necessarily bar an individual from working with us. This will depend on the nature of the position and the circumstances and background of an individual’s offence/s. Information provided by you or the DBS will be dealt with in a confidential manner and in accordance with the DBS Code of Practice which can be viewed here. Bolton Council’s policy on the Employment of Ex-Offenders is available here.

This post is a designated customer facing role under the fluency duty and requires a specified level of spoken English as per the person specification.

This organisation has signed up to the Greater Manchester Continuous Service Commitment. That means we will recognise your continuous or ‘unbroken’ service in any Greater Manchester local authority or NHS organisation that has signed the commitment, Transport for Greater Manchester, Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service or Greater Manchester Combined Authority, giving you access to our service‑related benefits. Please see the home page of greater.jobs for more information.

For more information about working for Bolton Council, please see greater.jobs; for advice and support with your application, contact [e-mail]

Supporting Documents

• Job description and person spec
• Documents for Right to Work
• DBS ID Guidelines
• Our Values & Behaviours
• Top Tips
• Staff Benefits
• Privacy Notice