Catering Supervisor

Thomas Franks Ltd.; Oxford; On-site; GBP 40,000 - GBP 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading catering company is seeking a Catering Supervisor in Oxford. This role involves overseeing catering operations, ensuring food safety, and supporting the team with customer service. The ideal candidate will have hospitality experience and be a team player. Benefits include discounts, free meals, enhanced leave, and career progression opportunities. Join a dynamic team dedicated to delivering excellent service in a fast-paced environment.

Benefits

Wider wallet scheme

Free meals on duty

Volunteer leave

Enhanced leave

Cycle to work scheme

Recommend a friend bonus

Training and development

Apprenticeship programme

Social events

Employee assistance programme

Workplace pension

Career progression

Qualifications

• Experience in a fast-paced catering environment.
• Customer and/or food preparation experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Oversee the catering operation.
• Ensure food standards and safety policies are followed.
• Support the team with customer service and stock replenishment.

Skills

Hospitality experience

Team player

Organised with attention to detail

Verbal English proficiency

Written English proficiency

Job description

Overview

Contract: Full Time , Permanent
Salary: 15.00
Hours: 37.5 per week

An independent boarding and day Pre-Prep and Prep school for boys aged 4 - 13 years situated in Summertown, Oxford. Catering for over 400 students and teachers daily. We offer a core feeding of Breakfast, lunch and Supper along with some hospitality. This is a 7 day a week operation so shift patterns are to be 5 over 7 days. The expectation is that the majority of shifts will be from 12 noon to 8pm (some 7am to 3pm and most weekends during term time). 44 weeks per year 37.5 hours per week. term time only plus 5 weeks contract.

Role

We are looking for a Catering supervisor to join our team at one of our prestigious locations in Oxford.

Experience and suitability

You will ideally have previous experience of working within a fast-paced catering environment as a hospitality assistant or supervisor.

You will enjoy what you do, working with a great team, for a company fanatical about food serving wonderful customers.

Key responsibilities

• To oversee the catering operation
• Ensuring company food standards are adhered to and wastage controlled.
• Ensuring all Food Hygiene and Health & Safety policies and allergen control procedures are followed.
• To support the team with serving customers, replenishing stocks, making hot drinks, clearing down (Barista skills essential).

You will have the following skills

• Hospitality experience required
• An all-round team player
• Organised with attention to detail
• Ability to demonstrate reasonable / good understanding and use of verbal English.
• Ability to demonstrate reasonable / good standard of written English and reading skills.
• Similar experience of customer and / or food preparation environment is preferred

Benefits

• Wider wallet scheme (discounts at major retailers, restaurants, gyms etc).
• Free meals on duty
• Volunteers leave – up to one day per year.
• Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoptive leave.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Recommend a friend bonus.
• Unrivalled individual training and development.
• Well established apprenticeship programme.
• Team & company social events.
• Employee assistance programme.
• Workplace pension.
• Excellent career progression within a leading independent contract caterer.

About us

Thomas Franks is a founder led, fresh food catering business with a focus on excellence and service delivered with individuality, passion and style. We are unique in every approach and our clients, and our people are paramount to our daily success.

Disclaimer

All applicants must be able to demonstrate that they have the Right to Work in the UK to be considered for this role.

An enhanced DBS, Identity & reference checks (covering the last five years) will form part of the selection process. As an organisation using the Disclosure Barring Service (DBS) Disclosure service to assess applicants\' suitability for positions of trust, Thomas Franks Ltd complies fully with the DBS Code of Practice and undertakes to treat all applicants for positions fairly. We are committed to safeguarding the welfare of children and undertake not to discriminate unfairly against any subject of a Disclosure based on conviction or other information revealed. However, for any post in a school please be aware that any application is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and as such any criminal conviction, caution or bind-over must be declared.

Diversity and Inclusion at Thomas Franks

We actively encourage applications from candidates from diverse backgrounds and continue to develop a culture of growth and inclusion and would like to invite applications from groups who are currently under-represented, because we believe greater diversity leads to exceptional results and provides a better working life.