Catering Supervisor

NHS Jobs; Liverpool; On-site; AUD 48,000 - 67,000; Full time

Job summary

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Catering Supervisor to manage rotas, allocate work to catering assistants and coordinate staffing during shortages. You will liaise with management to ensure continuous service, prioritise urgent requests and authorise overtime within budget.

Responsibilities include staff training on basic skills and safety (COSHH, toolbox talks), HACCP compliance, performing appraisals, maintaining hygiene, handling complaints, and promoting safe

Responsibilities

• Rotas managed and catering assistants allocated; liaise with management to ensure continued service during staff shortages; authorise overtime within budget.
• Staff training on basic job skills, plus health and safety training including COSHH and toolbox talks; ensure mandatory training is completed and maintain related records.
• Toolbox training documentation and records; participate in development of toolbox training sheets.
• Carry out staff appraisals; monitor health and safety compliance; address performance issues with management.
• Maintain hygiene standards per HACCP policy; ensure documentation is completed and departments audit procedures are adhered to.
• Basic food preparation; control portion sizes and presentation.
• Handle customer complaints with management; document relevant actions; visit patients to discuss complaints and dietary needs.
• Develop department practices; propose changes to working practices; report structural/mechanical defects requiring repair.
• Supervise cleanliness of allocated areas and associated equipment; promote sales in retail outlets.
• Ensure compliance with HASAWA and health and safety welfare; report incidents and ensure PPE usage; staff safety documentation.

Job description

1. Ensuring the rotas are covered. Allocation of work to catering assistants. Liaise with management to ensure there is a continuation of service in the event of major staff shortages. Priorities urgent requests. Authorise overtime within the allocated budget.
2. Training of staff in basic job skills under the direction of Management.
3. Training of health and safety, including cascade training and the monthlytoolbox training. Ensuring that the staff are complaint with the mandatorytraining including COSHH. Making arrangements for staff to attend training.
4. Tool box training. Ensure that staff are trained in the Toolbox training. Record the information on the appropriate documents on the computer. Get involved with the development of tool box training sheets.
5. Carry out staff appraisals
6. Cooperates on matters of health and safety and ensures that all staff comply with current Health and safety practices.
7. Ensuring all staff carry out their duties to the required standard as determined by Management. Identify and resolve staff performance problems. Highlight issues with management.
8. Under the direction of management, authority to give informal disciplinary warnings.
9. Report any issues with staff that do not comply with Aintree values.
10. Maintaining Trust standards of hygiene at all times, including personalcleanliness, working practices and food handling practices. Ensure that theunit complies with the departments HACCP policy and ensures that thenecessary documentation is completed.
11. Basic food preparation. Ensuring that food presentation and portion control is of the required standard at all times.
12. Handling customer complaints in conjunction with Management. Completing all the relevant documentation.
13. Visit patients to discuss complaints, special diets and comments. Feed back to head chef/management.
14. Carry out ward visits as per the HACCP policy. Talking to nursing staff and patients.
15. Develop the department, implementing changes and make proposals for changes in working practices.
16. Reporting any structural and mechanical defects, and the need for repair.
17. Supervision and instruction of the cleanliness of their allocated are andassociated equipment and materials.
18. Promoting the sales of goods within the retail outlets.
19. Ensuring that Audit procedures are adhered to within the department.
20. Responsible for the stock and stock control within your designated area. Highlighting potential problems to management .
21. Everyone employed by the company is required by Sections 7 and 8 of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 (HASAWA) to take reasonable care for the safety of themselves and others who may be affected by their acts or omissions at work; and not to interfere with or misuse anything provided in the interests of health, safety and welfare.
22. Co-operate on matters of health, safety and welfare to enable the Trust to meet its statutory obligations.
23. Train staff and monitor the use of all equipment and substances are used in accordance with their training and instruction.
24. Inform the immediate line manager of any situation representing a serious and immediate danger to Health and Safety. In the absence of a manager make immediate arrangements to stop immediate danger.
25. Be responsible for the staff use of any personal protective equipment. Dealing with staff who do not comply.
26. Report any personal injury, dangerous occurrence or work related disease on Datix.

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust