Job Description:

Catering Manager – School Catering
Location: Smethwick, West Midlands
Hours: 37 hours per week
Contract: Term Time + 3 Weeks
Grade: £30,000-£35,000
Start Date: ASAP!

Are you a passionate Catering Manager who loves creating great food, leading a team and delivering an excellent service?

Smile Education is working in partnership with a well-established secondary education setting in Smethwick to recruit an enthusiastic and experienced Catering Manager to lead their busy school catering operation.

This is a fantastic opportunity for someone who can bring fresh ideas to the menu, inspire a catering team and create a welcoming dining experience for students, staff and visitors.

We are looking for someone who takes pride in the quality of their food, understands the importance of healthy and varied menus and has the leadership skills to ensure a smooth, efficient and professional catering service.

What Will the Role Involve?
As Catering Manager, you will take responsibility for the day-to-day running and development of the catering facilities, including:

• Creating exciting, imaginative and healthy menus that offer students a varied choice of meals.
• Leading, managing and deploying the catering team to ensure an efficient service.
• Overseeing food preparation and service, maintaining consistently high standards.
• Sourcing quality ingredients and managing food costs within an agreed budget.
• Ensuring all staff receive appropriate training and deliver excellent customer service.
• Maintaining high standards of food hygiene, health and safety and kitchen cleanliness.
• Ensuring individual dietary requirements are understood and catered for.
• Managing stock levels, ordering supplies and minimising food waste.
• Monitoring costs, income and supplier relationships.
• Supporting catering for school events, meetings and extended school activities.
• Working alongside the Site Manager to maintain catering equipment and facilities.

What We're Looking For:
The ideal candidate will have:

• Previous experience in a catering management or supervisory role.
• Experience leading, motivating and developing a catering team.
• A strong understanding of food hygiene, health and safety and kitchen compliance.
• Experience planning menus and preparing a varied range of meals.
• Good budget management, stock control and ordering skills.
• The ability to deliver excellent customer service in a busy environment.
• A positive, organised and hands-on approach to managing a catering operation.
• A passion for providing nutritious, good-quality food and an excellent dining experience.

Experience within a school or education catering environment would be advantageous.
What's on Offer?

• A rewarding opportunity to lead and develop a school catering service.
• The chance to introduce new menus and bring fresh ideas to the lunchtime experience.
• A leadership role with responsibility for managing and developing your own team.
• 37 hours per week, term time plus three weeks.
• The opportunity to make a positive difference to the daily experience of students and staff.

Interested?
If you're an experienced Catering Manager looking for a rewarding new challenge where you can put your creativity and leadership skills into practice, we'd love to hear from you!
Apply today online or send your CV to (url removed) to find out more.

Smile Education is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. All appointments are subject to appropriate safer recruitment checks.
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