School Catering Manager (Coffee Shop Manager)

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

• 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