Term-Time School Catering Manager: Lead Food & Service

Caterlink Ltd; Kilsby; On-site; GBP 15,000 - 22,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee Discount Platform

Wellbeing Services

Pension scheme

Job summary

Caterlink Ltd is seeking a Catering Manager at St Oswalds in Rugby to provide nutritionally balanced and tasty food during term-time only, with no weekends. The role covers food preparation, safety compliance, budgeting, and client liaison, ensuring high standards and customer satisfaction.

You will lead site teams, monitor KPIs, and drive improvements, with access to training and wellbeing benefits. This is a part-time, term-time position with flexible career development opportunities.

Qualifications

• Experience in catering operations and food presentation.
• Knowledge of Health and Safety and Food Safety standards.
• Ability to manage inventories and budgets.

Responsibilities

• To prepare, cook and present food to the standards required by Caterlink and the client.
• To ensure that the location meets statutory and company requirements of Health and Safety, Food Safety and environmental legislations and procedures.
• To ensure that the company's reputation for excellent food and service is enhanced with the client and customers and expectations are consistently exceeded.
• To be responsible for the day-to-day running of the location and supervising teams including managing inventories, monitoring budgets, and implementing action plans.
• To be the main point of contact for our client in your school ensuring that regular adjustments and improvements are both recommended and implemented.
• Communicating regularly with your line manager to monitor KPIs and financial targets to ensure these are achieved.
• Supporting and training our teams, leading from the front to make sure everyone can excel in their role by ensuring all training is completed and performance is managed.

Skills

Team leadership

Budget management

Communication

Job description

Caterlink Ltd is seeking a Catering Manager at St Oswalds in Rugby to provide nutritionally balanced and tasty food during term-time only, with no weekends. The role covers food preparation, safety compliance, budgeting, and client liaison, ensuring high standards and customer satisfaction.

You will lead site teams, monitor KPIs, and drive improvements, with access to training and wellbeing benefits. This is a part-time, term-time position with flexible career development opportunities.