Facilities Manager - Catering

East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust; Stevenage; On-site; GBP 36,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust is recruiting a Catering Manager to lead the hospital catering service for inpatients, outpatients, staff and visitors. You will ensure safe food handling, HACCP compliance, allergen control and staff training within budget parameters.

The role requires strong leadership, collaboration with clinical teams and a commitment to high standards of food safety and patient care across sites including The Lister Hospital, Stevenage.

Job description

We are recruiting for a Catering Manager who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients. This is a key role in ensuring that all food is prepared, stored, cooked, transported and served safely and in accordance with food safety legislation and hospital policies. The successful candidate will be responsible for maintaining effective food safety and HACCP procedures, monitoring food temperatures, preventing cross-contamination, managing allergens and ensuring staff receive appropriate food hygiene training. The role is essential in protecting our patients, many of whom may be particularly vulnerable to foodborne illness. Failure to maintain effective catering management could increase the risk of food safety incidents, allergen-related harm, non‑compliance with regulations, complaints and reputational damage. The Catering Manager will therefore play a vital role in maintaining high standards of food safety, quality and patient care. At the heart of everything we do are our core values:Include,Respect, andImprove. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us., The Facilities Manager - Catering will work with the senior Facilities Management team and provide the leadership required to ensure an efficient and effective Catering service for inpatients, outpatients, staff and visitors to the Trust. The role will be responsible for all food production and service delivery for the Catering services and will have direct operational responsibility for the Catering team, including budgetary responsibility. The role requires a strong understanding of the technical nature of food production, compliance as well as quality checks, people management and service delivery. As the key member of the Catering Management team, you will contribute and be responsible for all Catering matters, providing a quality service that ensures the catering provision is appropriate, effective, and responsive to the needs of the Trust and achieved within the agreed budget parameters.

At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now. We run the following hospitals:

• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
• Hertford County, Hertford
• Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda. We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.