Contract: Education
Location: Billinghurst, Sussex - RH1 40EE
Hours of work: 16.25
Working Pattern: Monday to Friday 10:00 - 13:30
Contract Type: Permanent
Hourly Rate: £13.01
We are seeking a Catering Supervisor whose primary focus is on delivering great food for students while leading the day to day catering operation within a school environment.
You will be responsible for setting and driving standards, managing performance against agreed budgets and targets, and ensuring compliance with company policies and procedures.
We are looking for a positive and proactive leader who can motivate a front-line catering team, build strong relationships with clients and students, and deliver a high-quality customer-focused food service.
The Role
- Manage the daily school catering operation, ensuring high standards of food quality, presentation, promotion, and customer service.
- Lead, motivate, train, and support a team of front-line employees in line with company policies and procedures.
- Promote and maintain a strong health and safety culture, including risk assessments, accident reporting, and compliance with legislation.
- Ensure food safety, personal hygiene standards, and compliance with company food policies, including special diets and allergy requirements.
- Build and maintain positive relationships with clients, customers, students, and colleagues.
- Monitor sales, meal uptake, waste levels, portion control, and operational performance to support business objectives.
- Maintain accurate operational records, including timesheets, stock sheets, training records, sales information, and meal numbers.
- Ensure efficient and economical use of resources while supporting continuous improvement and change initiatives.
About You
- Understanding of school catering and excellent food preparation and cooking skills.
- Acceptable level of understanding of health and safety and accident prevention.
- Ability to demonstrate understanding of profit and loss.
- Effective communication skills.
- Excellent interpersonal, administrative, and organisational skills.
- Good understanding of kitchen software, such as Cypad, or willingness to learn.
- Ability to build strong relationships with clients, customers, and colleagues.
The Company
ISS is a world-leading workplace and facility management company, connecting people and places to make the world work better. Working with customers day by day, side by side, we understand every aspect of the user experience.
Through a unique combination of intelligent solutions, high standards and people who care, to help our customers achieve their purpose, whether it’s hospitals healing patients, businesses producing the next great innovation, or airports bringing passengers home to their families. ISS is committed to doing business the right way, taking its corporate responsibility very seriously. Our passion is people.
We offer you a challenging and exciting career in an organisation with people at its heart. In ISS, everyone has the opportunity to develop, grow and make a difference. #Becomewhoyouwant, #Bepartofsomethingbigger, #aplacetobeyou,
#facilitiesmanagement
ISS is proud to be a diverse and inclusive employer.
ISS welcomes all applicants regardless of age, disability, gender identity or gender reassignment, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, race (which includes race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin and caste), religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation or educational background.
We are proud to be a Gold Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) award holder and a signatory of the Armed Forces Covenant, recognising our commitment to supporting veterans, reservists, and military families. Through our Joint Forces Programme, we provide mentoring and support to members of the Armed Forces community and their spouses as they transition into civilian careers.
We are a Disability Confident Committed (Level 2) employer, proudly supporting and promoting inclusive hiring practices in line with the UK government’s Disability Confident scheme.
Our passion for inclusivity and diversity makes ISS a more creative, productive and happy place to work.
If you have any further queries regarding this role, please contact the Resourcing Team.
To find out more about what we do go here - https://www.uk.issworld.com/
Work Location: In person
