Mobile Chef and Nutrition Lead

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Mobile Chef and Nutrition Lead Job details

Salary Grade 7 Scale Point 12 to 20 £28,598 to £32,597 (pay award pending) Contractual hours 37 Basis Full time Region Doncaster Job category/type Catering, Education - Non-Teaching Date posted 20/07/2026 Job reference REQ23588

Job description

Exceed Learning Partnership Trust Doncaster,

Unit 6-9 Railway Court, T en Pound Walk,

Doncaster,

DN4 5FB

Contract Type: Permanent, Contracted hours 37 hours per week, full time, 52 weeks

Responsible to: Facilities Services Manager

Exceed Learning Partnership is looking for a visionary and hands-on Chef to support our catering services across our primary academies. At ELP, we believe in "Every Child, Every Chance, Every Day," and this role is vital in ensuring our pupils have access to healthy and nutritious meals both in the school day and while attending our extended school provision.

What you will do:

Our ideal candidate will have Strong Leadership Skills, be an effective Communicator, be able to relate well to both children and adults and be a team player who can work using your own initiative.

• Operational Support & Absence Cover: Lead kitchen operations in the absence of a Catering Manager at any academy across the Trust. This includes providing hands-on support during staff absences in any of our kitchens, undertaking food preparation, cooking, service, and general operational duties as required.
• Trust-Wide Events & Internal Meetings: Lead the planning, preparation, and production of high-quality catering for Trust-wide events held at the Trust office, as well as providing catering for internal meetings as required.
• Flexible Deployment: Maintain a flexible approach to deployment, traveling to any academy within the Trust to support catering teams, stabilise kitchen operations, and maintain service continuity.
• Menu Development & Provision Support: Lead the design and implementation of nutritious, compliant menus across the Trust, working in close partnership with the Facilities Services Manager and Academy Principals to meet school-specific needs. This includes specifically supporting individual academies with menu setting and food production for breakfast and wraparound provisions.
• Management Collaboration: Work closely with and provide operational support to Catering Managers across the Trust where required to ensure high standards, consistency, and culinary excellence.

Essential Criteria:

• Food Hygiene Certificate Level 3 .
• Management experience of a catering team
• Proven experience leading catering services (ideally within education) and managing high-performing teams .
• Strong knowledge of budgets, finance, and procurement .
• ICT skills
• The ability to maintain high standards under tight deadlines .
• A "can-do" attitude with the flexibility to lead from the front during peak service times .

Working in Exceed Learning Partnership will offer:

• Excellent career development
• Talented and hard-working professional colleagues who are committed to children's success across the curriculum and all aspects of school life
• The support of being part of a successful Multi Academy Trust
• Access to the most up-to-date training and development
• Auto enrolment into an excellent Local Government Pension scheme
• Wonderful pupils and parents who support the school in all its aspirations
• A highly committed and supportive Academy Governing Board and Trust Board of Directors
• An inclusive ethos in which everyone is valued and respected
• An ethos where we promote and support the importance of physical, emotional and mental wellbeing for staff and pupils
• Free access to a leading health and wellbeing support partner which includes 24 - hour GP appointments and a range of services including Physiotherapy, support for family issues, cancer support, medical advice and a range of wellbeing services
• Free flu jabs

Exceed Learning Partnership is an inclusive, diverse, supportive organisation. We care deeply about inclusive working practice and diverse teams. We aim at all times to recruit the person who is most suitable to the job and welcome applications regardless of sex, gender, race, age, sexuality, belief and disability.

The Directors and Governors of Exceed Learning Partnership are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and applicants will undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers. The role is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore candidates will be subject to an enhanced DBS certificate, the role is engaged in regulated activity and will therefore require a Children's Barred List Check. Shortlisted Applicants will be required to complete a self-disclosure

If you have not heard from us within three days of the shortlisting date, then unfortunately on this occasion your application has been unsuccessful.

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