Catering Manager

Kettering General Hospital; Kettering; On-site; GBP 37,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

An established NHS hospital is seeking a Temporary Catering Manager to lead its catering services. This role involves overseeing daily operations, ensuring high-quality meals for patients and staff, and maintaining food safety standards. As a compassionate leader, you will manage a dedicated team, coordinate food production, and ensure compliance with NHS guidelines. Join a dynamic team committed to excellence and efficiency in healthcare services, making a positive impact on the well-being of the hospital community while advancing your career in a supportive environment.

Benefits

Flexible working

Other

Qualifications

• 3+ years NHS catering experience or similar large-scale operation.
• Graduate level or equivalent in Hospitality Management required.

Responsibilities

• Oversee catering operations ensuring high-quality meal delivery.
• Manage stock levels and liaise with departments for dietary needs.

Skills

Budget Management

Food Hygiene

Health and Safety Regulations

Workload Prioritization

Education

Graduate in Hospitality Management

Advanced Diploma in Food Hygiene

Intermediate Qualification in Health and Safety

Job description

Main area: Corporate Grade Band 6 Contract Bank - Temp Staffing

• Flexible working
• Other

0 hours per week (Join our bank to pick up temp shifts)

Job ref: 264-6859889-Bank

Site: Kettering General Hospital

Town: Kettering

Salary: £37,338 - £44,962 (Bank is weekly pay, pro rata)

Salary period: Yearly

Closing: 05/01/2025 23:59

Job overview

We are currently recruiting for a Temporary Catering Manager to join our dynamic team within an NHS hospital setting. This role offers the opportunity to oversee the day-to-day operations of the hospital’s catering services on a temporary basis, ensuring the delivery of high-quality, nutritious meals to patients, staff, and visitors.

As the Catering Manager, you will lead a team of catering staff, coordinate food production and service, and maintain high standards of food safety and hygiene in compliance with NHS and regulatory guidelines. Your responsibilities will also include managing stock levels, liaising with hospital departments to meet dietary requirements, and ensuring a smooth workflow in a fast-paced hospital environment.

This is a temporary position requiring an experienced, flexible, proactive, and compassionate approach to managing catering operations while contributing to the well-being of patients and staff.

Main duties of the job

As a key member of the Estates & Facilities Soft Services team, you will take charge of leading and managing the Catering services within the Trust. You will be responsible for ensuring the delivery of efficient, high-quality catering for patients, visitors, and staff. Your role will involve setting and achieving operational goals, continuously reviewing and improving the service to ensure it aligns with the Trust's objectives. You will work closely with the Head of Facilities as part of the Senior Soft Services Management Team, contributing to the overall success of the department. Excellent customer service to patients, families, and colleagues will be central to your work. We’re looking for a motivated and compassionate leader who is dedicated to providing a top-tier catering service to our hospital community.

Working for our organisation

Please submit your application as soon as possible as we reserve the right to close any adverts before the closing date once we have received sufficient applications.

Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest employers in the area and we are on an exciting journey. All our divisions are committed to doing things better, with more efficiency as we update, modernise, and advance. We have also entered a Group Model with neighbouring Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust and become University Hospitals of Northamptonshire.

Our Excellence Values:

• Compassion
• Accountability
• Respect
• Integrity
• Courage

We want to recruit the best people to deliver our services across the University Hospitals of Northamptonshire and help to unleash everyone's full potential.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please review the job description and person specification for more information on the role.

This role does not attract sponsorship and does not meet UKVI guidelines for sponsoring.

Person specification

Knowledge and Experience

• Experience of managing revenue budgets and achieving challenging CIP targets.

Education

• Graduate level or equivalent in Hospitality Management or equivalent experience.
• Minimum of 3 years NHS catering experience or in a similar medium/large scale operation.
• Advanced level/Diploma in food hygiene.
• Intermediate qualification in health and safety regulations, COSHH and risk management.

Skills

• Able to prioritise own and others workload within policy and guidelines.

Applications will be transferred to TRAC system, by completing an application you are giving authorisation for the transfer of your data.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Application numbers

This vacancy may close early if it receives a high number of applications. Please complete and submit your application in good time to avoid disappointment.