Catering Senior Supervisor

Integrated Care System; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 26,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Liverpool is seeking a Catering Senior Supervisor responsible for managing daily catering operations. The role involves training staff, ensuring compliance with hygiene standards, and handling customer inquiries. This is an excellent opportunity for a knowledgeable professional with supervisory experience in catering.

Qualifications

• Must hold NVQ 3 in catering or equivalent.
• Previous supervisory experience in catering is essential.
• Understanding of food hygiene and health and safety regulations.

Responsibilities

• Manage day-to-day operations, ensuring service continuity and staff training.
• Maintain standards of hygiene as per HACCP policy.
• Handle customer complaints and engage with patients.

Skills

Food hygiene knowledge

Health and safety basic knowledge

Cash handling knowledge

Education

ILM certificate NVQ 3 in catering

Job description

Go back Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Catering Senior Supervisor

The closing date is 17 July 2025

Responsible for the day to day running of the area, ensuring that the staff are available and trained to run the service

Ensuring that the Trusts HACCP policy is adhered to

Main duties of the job

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 monthly toolbox training. Ensuring that the staff are complaint with the mandatory training 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 appraisals6. 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. Highlightissues with management

About us

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital & Royal Liverpool University Hospital.

We are part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, formed on 1 Nov 2024 from the coming together of LUHFT and Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust. The Group was born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide our patients.

UHLG is one of the largest employers in the region, with over 16,800 colleagues dedicated to caring for our communities - from birth and beyond.

For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, we are their local NHS. We provide general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services for more than two million people in the North West.

Aintree University Hospital is the single receiving site for adult major trauma patients in Cheshire and Merseyside and hosts a number of regional services including an award-winning stroke facility. Broadgreen Hospital is home to elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation. Liverpool Women's Hospital specialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK's largest single site maternity hospital each year. The Royal Liverpool University Hospital is the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single bedrooms and focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.

For roles at Liverpool Women's, visit their careers page.

Job responsibilities

1. Under the direction of management, authority to give informal disciplinary warnings.2. Report any issues with staff that do not comply with Aintree values.3. Maintaining Trust standards of hygiene at all times, including personalcleanliness, working practices and food handling practices. Ensure that the unit complies with the departments HACCP policy and ensures that the necessary documentation is completed.4. Basic food preparation. Ensuring that food presentation and portion control is of the required standard at all times.5. Handling customer complaints in conjunction with Management. Completing all the relevant documentation6. Visit patients to discuss complaints, special diets and comments. Feed back to head chef/management7. Carry out ward visits as per the HACCP policy. Talking to nursing staff and patients.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• ILM certificate NVQ 3 in catering subject/equivalent

Experience

• Previous catering experience at a supervisory level

Knowledge

• A general understanding of why food hygiene is important
• Health and safety basic knowledge
• Knowledge of Cash handling and till systems

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

£24,625 to £25,674 a yearper annum, pro rata