Required as soon as possible

Reporting to: Operations Manager

Location: Ark Putney Academy

Contract: Permanent

Working pattern: 36 hours per week, 41 weeks per year. Hours to be worked flexibly, depending on service demands, between 7.00am to 4.00pm (excluding lunch break)

Salary: Ark Support Scale 8 Point 24 - £37,306 full time salary prorated for 41 weeks per year.

Closing date for applications: 10.00am on Friday 27 September

Fantastic opportunity to join a ‘Good’ school

We are currently recruiting a hardworking Lead Catering Manager. The successful applicant will have overall responsibility for ensuring the Academy’s quality of dining is outstanding, including dining operations, budgeting and finance, health and safety and managing and developing the catering team.

Our ideal candidate will have:

• Experience catering in large quantities in a managerial role, ideally within a school
• Experience of cultural diversity, with reference to food preparation and dietary preferences, desirable
• Knowledge of healthy eating and nutrition and creating related menus
• Experience leading, coaching and motivating staff, ensuring professional development and effectively challenging and managing any underperformance
• Experience setting and managing a catering budget
• Excellent communication skills with children and adults
• High level of proficiency with Microsoft Office

We are very happy to talk about the post informally if you require more information.

About our school:

Ark Putney Academy opened in September 2012 as part of the Ark network in the London Borough of Wandsworth. We’re a mixed school with 900 students, ranging from year 7 through to sixth form.

We adopt a holistic view to educating young people. Through our commitment to inclusion, equality and attainment, we prepare every student to be a pillar of any community.

We’ve also been celebrating a successful year so far with strong GCSE results that place Ark Putney in the top 20% nationally for progress and ahead of other schools in the local area. This reflects our excellent teaching and the dedication of our staff both to the students and each other.

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We offer:

• Tailored professional development based on the needs of the staff member and department to ensure everyone achieves their full potential.
• Salaries 2.5% higher than main pay scale.
• Generous pension scheme.
• Access to Ark rewards – a scheme offering savings from over 3,000 major retailers Interest-free loans – up to £5,000 available for season ticket or to buy a bicycle. Gym discounts – offering up to 40%.
• Access to Employee Assistance Programme – providing free, confidential counselling, legal advice and a range of different support.

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