Catering Manager
The Excelsior Academy
Hackney
- Quick apply
- Expired
- Salary:
- Competitive
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- January 2019
- Apply by:
- 10 November 2018
Job overview
Do you want to work in a “good school”… with “outstanding leadership and management at all levels”? Ofsted 2018
Do you want to work in an academy where “people just love coming to work”?
(Investors in People GOLD 2014)
Located in the heart of Hackney, working in partnership with the local community and feeder schools within in the borough, The Petchey Academy has been awarded a Good rating by Ofsted this year with an Outstanding for Leadership and Management.
Experienced Catering Manager needed for an exceptional school
Do you want to work in a good school with outstanding features, one of which being the unique ‘family service’ style lunch arrangement?
“Social skills, including etiquette and the ability to show off good conversational skills are developed well during the ‘family service’ at lunch time. Students learn about belonging to and being a part of a community when they wait on and serve each in their selected family group.” OFSTED 2018
We are looking for a talented, enthusiastic and innovative Catering Manager to lead our catering team. The successful candidate must be able to demonstrate a real passion for food, be infectiously enthusiastic and willing to push culinary boundaries. The role requires the Catering Manager to have a `hands on` approach and be able to create excellent meals, adhering to a strict budget, to meet specific dietary and cultural requirements for all stakeholders.
The candidate must be highly motivated, flexible and a friendly team player, who can show us proven ability to lead, nurture and develop our team to success. You will provide a high quality catering service for our students. An ability to market and promote catering effectively to students and emulate the academy’s desire to promote healthier lifestyles is important.
Main Responsibilities
- Build, develop and motivate your team to deliver the very best service and quality to the client
- Prepare and serve exceptional food
- Plan, price and present school food plan compliant menus
- Be knowledgeable about all health, safety & hygiene matters and drive these high standards through the team
- Implement and monitor the effective use of the Food Safety Management System
- Maximise profit and business opportunities within your contract
- Be fully P&L accountable and be able to manage cost and resources to deliver profit and margin targets
- Ensure all of your team is engaged, motivated and passionate about delivering the service that is expected
The successful candidate will:
- Have excellent customer service skills
- Have a “can-do attitude”
- Be proactive and show initiative
- Be an experienced caterer and hold an NVQ in Catering or equivalent experience
- Have the ability to work in a pressurised environment and be self-motivated
- Have knowledge of, and be able to provide, good, healthy and nutritious food
- Have the ability to work efficiently and quickly
- Have high standards of personal hygiene
The Petchey Academy, under the patronage of Sir Jack Petchey is dedicated to enabling young people to aspire and succeed. We have adopted his motto and encourage our students to truly believe “If I think I can….I can!” If you are seeking a challenging and rewarding position, enriching the lives of the students who attend The Petchey Academy, then we are keen to hear from you.
TPA is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. All successful applicants will be requested to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check.
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About The Excelsior Academy
The Excelsior Academy is part of the Community Schools Trust. We serve a wonderfully diverse community, many of whom face challenges through no fault of their own. It is for this reason we want to level the playing field for all of our students, regardless of their background, by providing a world class education.
We care about outcomes at The Excelsior Academy. We know good grades lift life chances and impact health, wealth and even mortality. We know that teachers have the greatest impact on pupil outcomes and so we take professional development seriously, whatever our role in the school. Whether we have taught for two months, two years, or twenty years, we believe in our capacity to always improve in the classroom.
Our CPD provision is comprehensive and fundamental to our commitment to improve. We are invested in our own and each others’ development and use principles of instructional coaching to provide feedback to each other. Our CPD involves deliberate practice, video models of excellent practice and lots of fun! The desire to improve a little bit everyday permeates the culture in our school.
Our approach to teaching is evidence informed. We avoid ‘discovery learning’ methods and instead, we teach explicitly. Our teachers are experts in the classroom and lead from the front. We focus on perfecting routines for behaviour, like entry into lessons and transitions between tasks so that we can maximise time spent on learning. We have excellent behaviour systems which mean teachers can focus on what we love doing most - teaching!
As well as excellent outcomes, we want our students to be well rounded individuals who will thrive beyond school years; that’s why we deliberately teach prosocial behaviours like making eye contact when greeted, listening attentively and showing gratitude. We know these skills will set all of our students up for life, particularly those from disadvantaged backgrounds.
When students fall behind, our teachers run interventions outside of their lessons. We provide an extra session after school for all year 11 students so their families don't have to worry about paying for a tutor. Teachers work hard at TEA. Our students deserve nothing less and we expect the highest of standards from them because we know they are capable of achieving them.
But we invest in working smart too: we have a 3 week Christmas holiday, no retrospective book marking, no student report writing and no formal lesson observations!
We recognise talent and impact at The Excelsior Academy. There are lots of opportunities for promotions within the school and Community Schools Trust. Our staff body at all levels is a true reflection of the makeup of the community we serve - we are proud of this and welcome anyone who will add value to our wonderful school community.
We would love to hear from you if you think this sounds like the right place for you! We welcome visits; come and speak to our Headteacher, our staff and check out our lessons! Get in touch with us: email jobs@excelsiorcst.org or call 0207 275 1500 to speak to a member of the HR team.
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