Catering Area Supervisor and Shoreham

Salary: £23,476 - £24,479 (calculated to term time only)
Contract Type: Permanent, Term Time Only (39 weeks which includes 5 Inset days)
Working Pattern: Part-time, 32.50 hours per week (7.30am-2.30pm Monday to Friday)
Locations: Covering 5 schools in Worthing, Burgess Hill and Shoreham-By-Sea
Travel: The post holder will have the use of a WSCC allocated car for work purposes.
Interviews: Week commencing 30th March

We are seeking a Catering Area Supervisor to work across 5 of our 10 special school's sites in West Sussex. You'll oversee catering teams, provide staffing support, and ensure pupils and staff enjoy nutritious, freshly cooked meals every day.

The daily responsibilities include:

• Supervise and support the day to day running of the service.
• Provide short notice emergency cover of Catering Assistants and Cook Supervisors across the schools.
• Work closely with the Senior Catering Officer on service changes.
• Contribute to menu planning, recipe development, including special diets, and gather feedback for improvements.
• Supervise staff to prepare and serve healthy, freshly cooked meals.
• Motivate staff, engage with stake holders and maintain service delivery.
• Ensure food safety and health & safety standards are met.
• Manage ordering and purchasing to maintain budgets.
• Catering Area Supervisors will support each other, occasionally covering across areas when needed.

If you're someone who thrives on variety, enjoys running multiple sites and providing home produced meals, we want to hear from you! We're looking for a confident communicator who can work well within a team and can self-manage their time while responding proactively to business needs.

Join our supportive, award winning team and enjoy a healthy work/life balance with a term-time only contract, an excellent pension scheme, and access to hundreds of fantastic staff discounts-there has never been a more exciting time to join us!

We aim to create a supportive and dynamic working environment where employees can achieve their full potential, achieve a healthy work-life balance and are rewarded for the work they do.

Upon joining us you will have access to a range of benefits including the following:

• An excellent local government pension scheme
• A Term Time Only (TTO) contract where you will only work during periods in which schools are open.
• A range of flexible working options, depending on your job role
• Maternity, paternity, dependency and adoption leave
• volunteering opportunities
• Training and development opportunities, including coaching and mentoring
• A range of discounts giving our staff access to hundreds of offers; groceries, travel, cinema tickets, days out, leisure activities, high street retailers and the opportunity to save over £1,000 a year through our West Sussex Choices benefits platform (see our Staff discounts page if you are a business looking to offer a discount)
• Health and wellbeing benefits including access to our Employee Assistance Programme, Mental Health First Aiders and Voluntary Health Cash Plans.

For a full list this can be found at our Rewards and Benefits page.

The reference number for this role is CPP
01264

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