apply online icon SCHOOL CATERING MANAGER (COFFEE SHOP MANAGER)

Ref 190407
Number of Posts 1
Grade Grade 6 SCP 6-11.
Salary £27269 to £ 31067 Pro-Rata
Term Full-time.
Perm / FTC Permanent.
Required (ASAP ) .
Hours 37 hours a week.
Closing Date 19/04/2025.
Location
The Coffee Mill, Sandygate Mill, Burnley, BB11 1RN (179 on roll)
Eastern Avenue
Tel: 01282 953653
School website: www.ridgewood.lancs.sch.uk
Summary
We are looking for a ‘General Manager’ to lead our coffee shop team, whilst working alongside some of our amazing students at Ridgewood Community High School.

‘The Coffee Mill’ is a social enterprise/charitable trust created by Ridgewood School in order to give our pupils meaningful work experience. A key part of the role will involve training and working with young people with special educational needs and disabilities. This is a great opportunity for an experienced general manager, store manager, or even an aspiring assistant manager, looking for their first opportunity to step up into a general manager role.

We're all about embracing passion, energy, and teamwork to serve memorable moments for every one of our customers. And you'll be leading from the front, taking our new coffee shop, ‘The Coffee Mill’, to new heights with your experience and resourcefulness.

The Coffee Shop Manager’s life is a busy one, including the stock, standards, team, labour, and customers.  It's all yours to own and grow. You will take accountability of the profit and loss, the look and feel of your store, and for delivering standards. A shining clean coffee shop creates the perfect space for customers to kick back with a coffee. You will have a unique skill for anticipating what our customers' need and ability to think outside of the box to create memorable moments.

Shifts: 37 hours per week - (negotiated with the school on opening times and working weeks):
Location: The Coffee Mill, Sandygate Mill, Burnley


Please note that in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education 2024, an online search will be carried out as part of our due diligence on shortlisted candidates.

Please note CVs are not accepted, to apply for this vacancy you need to complete the application form attached.

Please note that this vacancy closes at 12pm on 19/04/2025
Essential Qualifications
  • Craft based qualifications C & G or NVQ (706/1 or 706/2 or equivalent)
  • Basic Food Hygiene certificate

    • Desirable Qualifications
  • Recognised Supervisory or Management Qualification
  • Recognised Nutrition Qualification
  • BIIAB Level 2 National Certificate for Personal Licence Holders.
  • Recognised Food Hygiene Qualification/intermediate Food Hygiene Certificate
  • Health and Safety qualification
  • Legionnaires awareness qualification
  • Basic finance awareness

    • Essential Experience
  • Relevant experience in supervising a large catering contract
  • Supervision and training of staff in basic kitchen skills
  • Experience of large scale catering and catering
  • Controlling resources
  • Commercial catering experience
  • Relevant experience of managing financial resources
  • Inputting and reconciliation of orders/invoices

    • Desirable Experience
  • Hospitality 2 years experience

    • For an informal discussion please contact:
    m.siney@ridgewood.lancs.sch.uk c/o Headteacher
    Equal Opportunities statement
    An Equal Opportunities Employer welcoming applications from all sections of the community
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    Additional Info

    Applications and further details are available from/returnable to

    Address: Application Forms to be returned m.siney@ridgewood.lancs.sch.uk c/o Headteacher
    Positive about Disabled People 

    The County Council is committed to equality of opportunity for all people in terms of recruitment, selection and employment, and is a Disability Confident employer, which means that all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria in the person specification will be interviewed. However, commitment to this standard is on an individual school basis and, therefore, if you are applying for a position within a school, you will need to check with the school whether they have made the decision to comply with this standard.

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    Please note that we can only consider applications from candidates who are legally entitled to work in the UK.

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