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Head Chef/Catering Manager

Head Chef/Catering Manager

Our Lady and St John RC High School, a Voluntary Academy

Blackburn with Darwen

  • Expired
Salary:
Negotiable depending on experience and potential: Grade F £24,491 to £27,741 fte
Job type:
Full Time, Permanent
Start date:
As soon as possible
Apply by:
8 November 2021

Job overview

Salary: Negotiable depending on experience and potential: Grade F £24,491 to £27,741 fte

Contract type: 37 hours per week Term Time (39 weeks) plus 2 weeks

Contract term: Permanent

Start Date: As soon as possible


Join us on our journey towards outstanding.


An opening has arisen for an enthusiastic, highly motivated individual, committed to achieving the highest standards, to lead and organise our school catering service to ensure the delivery of an outstanding and attractive meal service.


We are looking to appoint someone who is forward thinking with innovative ideas, keen to develop and promote the catering provision within the school. 


The Head Chef/Catering Manager is responsible for all aspects of the school catering service including ordering and stock taking, menu planning and food production, preparation and service, the maintenance of high nutritional standards, hygiene, health and safety and the leadership of the catering team.


This post of Head Chef/Catering Manager is an interesting and motivating role for an applicant with successful experience of working within a catering function either within education or in the hospitality sector


This is an exciting time in school catering with the opportunity to make a significant difference to the lives or our pupils. We can offer the successful candidate family friendly working hours, a dedicated and enthusiastic team keen to learn, a supportive working environment and the opportunity re-imagine the service.


An application pack can be found on our website, applications can be returned by e-mail to Mrs Taylor Ctaylor2@olsj.blackburn.sch.uk.


Our Lady & St John Catholic College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. Applicants must be willing to undergo appropriate child protection screening, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure & Barring Service.


Closing date for applications: Monday 8th November 2021 – 12pm


“Our Lady and St John’s is an Outstanding Catholic School… where pupils are given opportunities to flourish as individuals and where staff are empowered to continuously improve” Section 48 Inspection 2017.


“We are like a family here” student feedback to inspectors.


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About Our Lady and St John RC High School, a Voluntary Academy

Our Lady and St John is an 11-16 Catholic Voluntary Aided School situated in Blackburn and part of Salford Diocese. Our strengths are our staff and our students. We have a great team spirit in school and support each other to improve and succeed. As one of our students said to inspectors: "We are like a family here." We have staff and students of various faiths, but all are committed to our school values of Unity, Faith, Truth, Justice, Forgiveness and Industry. These values are routed in our Catholic faith which is about educating the whole child, seeing each individual as sacred and welcoming everyone regardless of gender, faith, ethnicity or sexuality.

We have an excellent CPD programme, using high quality twilights and instructional coaching approaches to support all of our staff to improve. Shared planning time is allocated in the school day to reduce workload and raise standards. Consequently, our curriculum planning and implementation is improving all the time. We also have an extensive extra-curricular programme that is built around timetabled clubs to support staff to contribute without impacting on their work / life balance.

Our support for staff and students is a real strength of the school. We have excellent pastoral provision and a well-established programme to support the mental health of staff and students called the "Healthy Heads" strategy. We have an active staff welfare group who arrange social events and support staff at times of personal difficulty. Our staff enjoy working here and would love to welcome you to our team if you are successful in an application.

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Applications closed