Group Head of Catering - Band 8a
The closing date is 24 July 2025
Job summary
Lead the Group's catering function to inpatient dining, ensuring the highest standard of food quality, compliance, training and standards. Additionally lead our catering to our staff and visitors through our various restaurants and cafes, to offer a high class service.
We have a tremendously hard working and dedicated catering team across the Group, serving over one and a half million meals per year. We are looking for that experienced leader to continue to drive standards, offer our patients and staff innovation and lead on our technological improvement
Main duties of the job
The Group Head of Catering is responsible for all strategic catering operations and will have direct operational responsibility for the Catering team including budgetary responsibility..
As a key member of the Facilities management team, you will lead on all Catering matters, ensuring a quality service that ensures the Catering provision is appropriate, effective and responsive to the strategic needs of the Trust and achieved within the agreed budget parameters.
The post holder will be required to work with senior colleagues to develop operational service delivery strategies, policies and to implement improvement management processes with relevant SOP and policies.
The post holder will also be responsible for transformational change management process and its implementation across Catering Services thereby supporting the delivery of service enabling projects that will enhance and align services processes/delivery within the Catering service.
To ensure all key performance indicators are achieved which includes specific elements in Trust and National Performance frameworks whilst striving for continuous improvement.
The post holder will manage a significant financial budget with a prudent service budget approach whilst delivering an excellent cost-effective patient catering/retail service.
About us
Lincoln Hospital is a thriving university city and with the opening of the medical school, it provides all major specialties and a 24-hour major accident and emergency service.
United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust has been granted teaching hospital status, after demonstrating evidence to significant teaching commitment. From now on it will be known as United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.
Pilgrim Hospital is situated in beautiful countryside and serves the communities in the South Lincolnshire area. It provides all major specialties and a 24-hour major accident and emergency service.
Grantham and District Hospital serves the communities of Grantham and the local area. It provides ambulatory paediatric and accident and emergency services.
Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust (LCHS) and United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust (ULHT) have come together in a Group arrangement, with the goal of improving the care provided to patients across the county.
This will not constitute a formal merger of the two organisations, but will bring the Trusts together under a single Board and Executive Leadership Team, with the goal of improving the care that is provided to patients both in the community and in hospitals across Lincolnshire. Both Trusts will retain their separate statutory names and legal obligations.
The Group will be known as Lincolnshire Community and Hospitals NHS Group (LCHG).
Details
Date posted
10 July 2025
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 8a
Salary
£53,755 to £60,504 a year per annum
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
357-LN-304-25-QIA275-A
Job locations
Lincoln County Hospital
Greetwell Road
Lincoln
LN2 5QY
Employer details
Employer name
United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust
Address
Lincoln County Hospital
Greetwell Road
Lincoln
LN2 5QY
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