Food Servery and Hospitality Supervisor
St Edward's School
Oxfordshire
- New
- Salary:
- £32,142 per annum
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 8 December 2024
Job overview
If you offer proven experience of working in a quality catering environment, this position offers an exciting opportunity to play a key role in a busy catering department at a leading independent school.
As Food Servery & Hospitality Supervisor, you will oversee the front of house activities of the Catering Department during service times, ensuring that service runs efficiently and effectively.
This will include:
- Ensuring the serving of food is efficiently and effectively managed
- Maintaining good behaviour and discipline among the team in the servery
- Assisting the Duty Chef as required
- Liaising with the management team over rotas and staff requirements
- Ensuring compliance with rules of hygiene and health and safety
- Ensuring that appropriate standards of cleanliness and tidiness are maintained in all areas
You will also host, manage and assist with internal and external functions and hospitality.
The Catering Department at St Edward’s serves around 2000 meals a day over breakfast, lunch and dinner and also manages a varied event calendar, which includes charity balls, boarding house dinners, fine dining, weddings and catering for sports and summer schools.
About you
Basic food hygiene certification or other equivalent qualifications are essential, as is basic health and safety certification or other equivalent qualifications.
You will also need good people management skills for motivating, developing and directing team members accordingly.
Experience of working in a large-scale catering environment to high standards is equally important.
For further details and to download an application form from the school website please click the apply button.
The deadline for applications is Sunday 8th December 2024.
We reserve the right to close the advert should a suitable candidate be found. We also reserve the right to hold interviews prior to the closing date so would encourage early applications.
St Edward’s is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and we aim to create and maintain a safe environment for our pupils, where they feel respected and supported. We expect all staff to share this commitment and to become familiar with our policies and procedures for child protection and security. All staff are required to apply for an Enhanced Disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service.
St Edward’s School is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace.
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About St Edward's School
About St Edward’s
Affectionately known as Teddies, St Edward's School is a co-educational, independent, day and boarding school in Oxford. We have over 800 pupils, almost half of whom are girls, most are boarders (86%), around 20% are London based and 16% fly in from abroad. We have a strong emphasis on academic rigour and also offer an extensive range of sports, arts, clubs and activities.
Renowned for its friendliness, Teddies is an exhilarating community to be part of where we see excellence in academic results and extracurricular achievements and where we work hard to promote staff wellbeing. Staff at St Edward’s also benefit from our rich cultural programme, free gym membership, many invitations to social events, the extensive 100 acres of tranquil grounds, professional arts facilities and the advantage of being only 10 minutes by bus or bicycle to Oxford city centre.
Warden
Alastair Chirnside
Values and vision
St Edward’s aims to lead the sector in co-educational boarding, in educational innovation, in breadth of opportunity and in the wellbeing of pupils and staff. Our community values are integrity, courage and kindness.
ISI report
"The quality of the pupils’ personal development is excellent, reflecting the school’s highly effective emphasis on the welfare and well-being of each individual pupil. The excellent standard of pastoral care is a strength of the school, and the sympathetic and supportive example set by the staff is mirrored in the way pupils behave towards one another."
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