Restaurant Manager
(Sommelier and Chef Jobs:
Restaurants)
Part Time
New College Durham
Moor,
England
Full job description
Posted
25 September 2025
Salary
Support Grade E02 - E03; £28,187 - £29,139 per annum (pro rata)
Location
Framwellgate Moor
Job type
Fixed-Term - Part Time
Reference
285806
Restaurant Manager
If you are looking to further your career at a groundbreaking and award-winning College, we’d love to hear from you!
We are seeking a highly motivated and professional Restaurant Manager to lead the operation of our training restaurant, The Copper Pot within the School of Creative and Service Industries. This is an exciting opportunity to shape the learner experience by providing students with real-world, industry-standard practice in a commercial environment.
The role will involve overseeing the day-to-day running of the restaurant, supporting staff and learners in service delivery, ensuring the highest standards of customer experience, and embedding strong links between industry practice and curriculum delivery.
You will also be enthusiastic and passionate about creative and skills-driven education, working closely with curriculum colleagues to ensure students gain meaningful, hands-on experience in professional settings. With a focus on mentoring and coaching, you will play a vital role in preparing learners for progression into the hospitality industry.
By joining us, you will become part of a supportive and ambitious College community where staff and students are valued, empowered, and inspired to succeed.
New College Durham offer a wide range of benefits to enhance your professional development, take care of your health and well-being and help you maintain a healthy work-life balance. On top of this, our flexible benefits scheme lets you choose from a comprehensive selection of benefits and rewards to meet your individual needs.
New College Durham offers support and benefit options such as:
About us:
New College Durham is a great place to work. It is a high performing and financially outstanding college. We are continually investing in new facilities and resources to benefit our students, such as our new development, T.H.E HUB.
New College Durham is one of the leading Further Education colleges in the North East and continues to be at the forefront of new initiatives, being one of the few colleges in the North East to offer all the new T-Level programmes.
We focus on providing training and education that creates the best outcomes for our students, giving them the edge in their chosen industry.
New College Durham is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, as well as vulnerable adults, we expect all staff and volunteers to be suitable to work with these groups and share this commitment.
We are committed to being a fully inclusive and diverse community. Applications are welcome from all suitably qualified candidates. We particularly encourage applications from under-represented groups.
As an inclusive employer awarded the following recognitions demonstrate our commitment to our workforce/the community we serve:New College Durham have further signed up to the AOC Mental Health and Wellbeing charter, as well as the AOC EDI Charter.
We pride ourselves on our dedication to safeguarding all students; to do so we follow a strict vetting process whereby any offer of employment will be subject to the appropriate checks.Before applying for a role with New College Durham it is important to note that it is an offence to do so if you believe you are a persons whom is barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.
To read more information in relation to the DBS Code of Practice please see below; DBS code of practice - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
Please note that Curriculum Vitaes (CVs) will not be accepted.
