Kitchen Manager

Job Description

The successful candidate will lead and manage the day to day operations of the school kitchen, ensuring high quality healthy meals for our pupils and staff. The role requires hands on food preparation with effective kitchen team leadership and management. Maintain high standards of health and hygiene, food safety and food service. Implementing successful processes, procedures and checking systems to monitor and maintain high quality healthy food. Manage the ordering processes, ensuring orders are accurate. Overall responsibility to ensure sufficient food is available for the number of covers required each day, and that every meal is served to meet the requirements of each individual. Take ownership of the kitchen, menu planning, ensuring meals meet dietary, allergen and nutritional requirements, while creating an engaging and positive experience for our pupils.

Be creative, work with the children to find out their views on menus options, think outside of the box, introduce theme days and be creative with food choices.

Requirements

• At least 2 years’ previous experience of kitchen manager experience, ideally within a school kitchen
• Level 2 certificate in Food Preparation or equivalent
• Level 3 Food Hygiene certificate

About [Employer hidden]

Our school is a non-maintained specialist school with a roll of 70 pupils, all with Education Health Care Plans (EHCPs) and complex needs. We have approximately 8 acres of land, and we are excited to continue to offer the best environment for our pupils to be successful.

Benefits

• Death in service benefit (4 x basic salary)
• Employer assist program (EAP), GP and physio access
• Competitive pension scheme with matching up to 6.75%
• Meals provided during term time
• DBS update service paid by the Charity
• Training and qualification opportunities
• Paid membership to Blue Light and Charity Workers Discount

How to Apply

Please fully complete our application form, using the personal specification to help you complete the ‘Personal Statement’ section. Send your completed application form to [contact hidden]. We can only accept a Charity Application Form. CVs will not be reviewed.

Closing Date: Midnight, Sunday, 31 May 2026. Shortlisting: w/c 01 June 2026. Interview: w/c 08 June 2026.

Safeguarding

The Charity is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and requires an Enhanced DBS check.