Head of Catering Services

7 days ago

Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom Royal Grammar School, Newcastle Full time

**HEAD OF CATERING SERVICES**

**Newcastle upon Tyne Royal Grammar School**

Required from September 2024

**THE POSITION**

We have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and talented Head of Catering Services to join our Catering Services team in providing a high quality, professional and responsive catering service to the Junior and Senior Schools and staff. The Head of Catering Services will manage a team of 20 and will report to the Director of Finance and Operations.

Service is cafeteria style and offers a wide choice including soup, a choice of hot and cold main courses and puddings, a vegetarian dish, open sandwiches, and salad meals. The team prepare around 1,500 meals each day as well as preparing a number of formal dinners over the academic year for between 30 and 120 guests.

Very little frozen food is used and the team, working together, takes great pride in producing interesting and healthy food whilst catering for a wide variety of dietary requirements.

**THE SCHOOL**

Thomas Horsley, the original settlor of the Royal Grammar School Newcastle (RGS) pledged his legacy to the School in 1525. Almost 500 years later, RGS continues to flourish as the premier independent school in the North East of England and as one of the country's leading schools.

In 2023, RGS was named overall ‘Independent School of the Year’ in The Telegraph Group’s national awards. RGS also consistently tops the region’s academic league tables and was awarded the Sunday Times’ 2024 North East's Top Independent Secondary School, both the overall winner and for Academic Performance. While we pride ourselves on academic excellence, we are just as well known for our high level of pastoral support, involvement in a wide range of sports and other co-curricular activities, and our commitment to bursaries and partnerships.

RGS is fully co-educational with over 1,300 students aged 7-18 years (Years 3 to 13) and our academically selective places are highly coveted. We have more than 250 students in the Junior School, which shares the same outstanding site as the Senior School. Our Sixth Form is one of the largest in the independent sector with more than 340 students.

The school is based in the heart of the City, immediately opposite Jesmond Metro station and our excellent transport links attract students from far and wide. The school occupies over 30 acres of land and has state-of-the-art facilities, including a 25m swimming pool, two Sports Halls, five new art studios, a new library, a new Sixth Form Centre, a Performing Arts Centre with professional-standard theatre, several outdoor football/rugby pitches, an artificial turf pitch and the former County Cricket Ground.

RGS is a special place, known and respected throughout the whole country as well as the North East. It's a place where aspirations are high, results are outstanding, and opportunities are endless. Our students go on to study highly selective courses at the most sought-after universities, but also leave the school realising that life outside the classroom has been equally beneficial.

**THE TEAM**

The Head of Catering Services will join a multi-disciplinary catering team consisting of a Head Chef, 4 Assistant Chefs and a team of Catering Assistants.

**MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES**

Reporting to the Director of Finance and Operations, the principal duties of this position, are to oversee the efficient operation of an extremely busy school catering department. Other duties include, but are not limited to:

- Oversee and have responsibility of ensuring statutory and school standards of hygiene, food safety and health and safety are adhered to, in accordance with the current legislation.
- To deliver and provide food and beverages to the highest standards within the financial budget limitations and in line with School Healthy Eating guidance.
- Responsibility of stock management and procurement of all items for the Catering Department.
- Management of the Head Chef and Catering Assistants and support the Head Chef in the management of the catering function support them in their management of the Assistant Chefs.
- To ensure, and promote, good relations between the Catering Department and the whole school community including working with the School Council of both the Senior and Junior School.
- Support the Head Chef in food preparation and service, including packed lunches and sports meals, as required.
- Responsibility to verify all general cleaning duties are completed in line with Health & Safety standards, and oversight of the kitchen equipment monitoring system on a daily basis.
- Occasional weekday and weekend overtime to support special functions/events in school including provision for external bookings.
- Oversight of lunch counter service and lunch queue within the dining facility.
- Working independently or in close cooperation with other support staff teams, actively assisting in the provision of support services across the school, e.g

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