Job Description

St Helen and St Katharine

Oxfordshire
48,073 - 50,099 per year

Salary:

Starting salary dependent upon qualifications and experience

Job type:

Full Time, Permanent

Start date:

01 November 2025

Apply by:

17 September 2025

Job overview

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We are seeking to appoint an experienced, skilled, hands-on Executive Chef to lead our kitchen and to manage all catering on site during the school term. This is an extraordinary opportunity for the right individual to join and lead a well-established and successful team and further develop catering provisions within School.

The Executive Chef is a pivotal role within the School. The excellence of the food at St Helen's has long been an important driver of student recruitment as well as pastoral and physical well-being. We are now looking for an individual who wants to take this provision even further.

This role is full-time, term-time plus 4 weeks and we are looking for the successful candidate to start work from November 2025.

Main responsibilities

The Executive Chef is required to successfully manage the delivery of the highest possible standards of food and service to students, staff and visitors within pre-agreed budgetary targets. They will be responsible for the continuous development of the catering service through menu innovation, staff motivation and training as well as being actively involved in the food preparation.

What we offer

Competitive salaries Generous holiday entitlement Staff may join a group personal pension scheme Diverse training and professional development programme Employee Assistance Programme - offering free and confidential advice Free use of the Sports Centre facilities including a fitness suite, ergo suite and group cycle studio Free school lunch, plus refreshments available in the staff room during the day and after school On-site parking Cycle to work scheme Free eye tests and annual flu vaccination Access to well-stocked school library Access to wide range of school events
The School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. Applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service.



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About

St Helen and St Katharine

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St Helen and St Katharine

Faringdon Road, Abingdon
Oxfordshire
OX14 1BE
United Kingdom

+44 1235 520 173

Founded on Christian values, we enable every girl to discover and develop her own strengths. St Helen & St Katharine is a school where success is celebrated but not revered and our goal is to ensure that every girl achieves success as she defines it, so that she can believe in herself, her talents and her abilities.

We are one of the leading girls' schools in the country and are justifiably proud of a tradition of high aspiration and academic achievement (our students achieved record breaking GCSE results with 77% Athis year

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But we take just as much pleasure in the warmth of the atmosphere here and in our dynamic range of extra-curricular activities. From Minecraft to Mandarin, Silversmithing to Sailing, Board Games to Big Band and much more besides, our girls are given the space and opportunity to make their own choices and find their niche.


A welcoming 22 acre campus in Abingdon provides exceptional facilities that include a brand new state-of-the-art Sports Centre; Performing Arts Centre; extended Sixth Form Centre; Science Centre with 12 new laboratories, break out spaces and a 200sqm science themed glass atrium and a 3D Design Centre.



This is a friendly and happy place in which lasting relationships are built on kindness and respect. Our ambitions for our students are based upon them developing confidence and resilience and an open-minded and creative approach to learning and to life.

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