The Catering Manager oversees the planning, preparation, and delivery of nutritious meals for students and staff, ensuring compliance with school food standards and health regulations. The role includes managing kitchen staff, budgeting, ordering supplies, and maintaining hygiene and safety standards. In a Catholic primary school, the Catering Manager is also expected to support the school's ethos and values, promoting a welcoming, respectful, and inclusive environment in line with the school's Christian mission.
Responsibilities
* Plan, prepare and deliver nutritious meals for students and staff while ensuring compliance with school food standards and health regulations.
* Manage kitchen staff, including supervision, scheduling and performance management.
* Own budgeting, ordering of supplies and cost control to support school dining services.
* Adhere to high standards of hygiene and safety in food preparation and service.
* Promote the school's ethos, values and Christian mission, contributing to a welcoming, respectful and inclusive environment.
Why work for St Thomas Aquinas Catholic Multi Academy Trust?
* Genuine opportunities for career progression with 23 academies in our family and 84 academies across the Diocese.
* Pension: automatic enrolment into the Teachers' Pension Scheme with 28.68% employer contributions, or Local Government Pension Scheme for support staff, with competitive employer contributions.
* Terms and Conditions: nationally agreed pay terms for both teachers and support staff.
* Childcare: access to the Trust’s childcare resources for free if your children attend one of the 23 schools with their own provision.
About St Thomas Aquinas Catholic Multi Academy Trust
Our school is part of the St Thomas Aquinas Catholic Multi-Academy Trust which brings together the 23 Catholic Primary and Secondary schools in Leicester City, Rutland and Leicestershire. Our priority is to ensure the very best Catholic Education for all young people in our community, whatever their circumstances. We will achieve this together, through a strategic approach to sharing best practice, effective challenge and support from a central standards and performance team and opportunities for high quality Continuing Professional Development. The Trust and all our schools within our Trust committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and we expect all staff to share this commitment. An enhanced DBS check, online check and other pre-employment checks are required for successful applicants. The Trust will endeavour to make any necessary reasonable adjustments to the job and the working environment to enable access to employment opportunities for disabled job applicants or continued employment for any employee who develops a disabling condition. Our Trust strives to be a supportive, inclusive, caring and positive community where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We are committed to cultivating an equitable working environment where staff treat one another with dignity and respect and where every individual can fulfil their potential. We warmly welcome those of different cultures, ethnicities and beliefs. This includes those of all faiths, the Catholic faith and those without a faith who are supportive of the Trust's Catholic character and Christian ethos. This diversity is fundamental to our values and enriches the lives of the students within our schools. We are a Disability Confident Committed employer and welcome applications from people with a disability or long-term health condition. Learn more about us on our socials: Instagram: @StThomasAquinasCMAT, Facebook: @StThomasAquinasCMAT, LinkedIn: @st-thomas-aquinas-catholic-multi-academy-trust
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