Required for September 2022.

Have you got experience of managing a busy kitchen? Are you looking for a new opportunity, which can provide you with a great work life balance?

We are looking for a dynamic and inspirational individual, to lead and manage our Catering Facility at Gosford Park Primary School. The successful candidate will have experience managing a catering facility. You will be innovative, creative and passionate, ensuring our children have the best experience of healthy eating from a young age.

You will have experience of creating and cooking healthy delicious meals, managing a team of staff, reviewing and implementing change, managing a budget and menu planning, in order to deliver high quality healthy food on budget and on time.

The successful candidate will:

• Create and serve delicious and nutritious meals for our pupils.
• Menu plan and manage budgets.
• Lead, manage and motivate a team of catering staff.
• Demonstrate good knowledge of catering legislation.
• Be Customer focused.
• Be articulate and able to communicate effectively with all shareholders.
• Have knowledge of basic ICT

We can offer:

• A welcoming environment, with friendly and supportive staff.
• Children who are ‘exceptionally’ well behaved.
• Excellent professional development opportunities.
• A commitment to staff welfare and work-life balance.
• Employee Benefits platform, providing staff access to a range of benefits such as shopping discounts.
• Employee Assistance programme which offers 24/7 confidential advice on a range of matters and free access to accredited counsellors.
• An excellent pension scheme, through West Midlands Pension Fund.

Salary is Grade 5 Pt 12 £22,571 - Pt 23 £28,226 FTE (pro rata for 30 hours per week, Term Time only plus 5 training days). The salary will be adjusted to reflect the actual hours and weeks worked.

(Starting Salary Point dependent on experience).

Hours of work will be 6.5 per day: 8 a.m. – 2.30 p.m. or 8.30 a.m. – 3 p.m. including half hour unpaid lunchbreak. Monday to Friday.

Visits to School are strongly encouraged.  Further details available from Anne Duffy, School Business Manager on Telephone 024 76 223281.

Application packs are available to download below and are returnable direct to the school - aduffy@gosfordpark.coventry.sch.uk

Closing date:  12.00 noon on Monday 6^th June 2022

Interviews will be on Thursday 16^th June 2022

This post is exempted under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and as such, appointment will be conditional upon the receipt of a satisfactory response to a check of police records via the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).

The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.