Catering Services Manager

Job summary

'The opportunity has arisen due to retirement, for a Catering Services Manager, band 6, at Fairfield General Hospital, Bury.

Catering Services Manager

37.5 hours a week Monday - Friday

The position reports directly to the Group Head of Catering.

Managing a combined patient and retail team of 55, with support from Deputy CSM, and four supervisors.

Role and responsibilities include the 365-day provision of patient feeding, 364 beds at FGH, 105 beds in satellite units.

The retail units include a retail kiosk , outpatients caf and 48 Bakehouse canteen.

All profit and loss responsibilities and the correct standards of operation are managed via the CSM with delegated duties through to the Deputy Manager.

HACCP systems and all legislative requirements are managed by the CSM, including the annual EHO rating.'

Main duties of the job

Effectively support and manage the team in the day to day running of the department, including manpower management, Food Hygiene and Health and Safety compliance

Attend Trust and external meetings as the catering representative. Be involved in gathering & interpreting relevant information and cascading to staff. This may involve presenting to departmental meetings.

Exercise effective budget controls, ensuring that cost centre within catering services is contained and within pre-determined targets. Analyse data to enable the unit to run at their most efficient

Manage the food production team. This will include organising staffing, ordering food, transportation and communication between kitchen and food service staff to ensure an efficient effective service

Manage the department to ensure it is compliant with all mandatory training and appraisals. To be actively involved in ensuring that local statutory training is up to date, Food Safety, Allergen and COSHH. Implement and manage a staff development programme. Work with Learning & Development and outside collages. Be involved with identifying the need for training within your department

About us

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.

As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we're always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care, appreciate and inspire - to join our team.

In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.

We are currently in process of updating our values. For the latest information around our values and behaviours, please visit our careers website www.careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk