Patient & Retail Catering Supervisor
The closing date is 16 July 2025
Job summary
This role will primarily be working within Bayview Restaurant as a Retail Supervisor, providing a first class dining experience for the staff and visitors of Torbay hospital.
You will be part of a management structure which supports departmental teams in providing an appropriate environment for staff, visitor and patient care and liaise with clinical and non-clinical staff to ensure that standards are in line with the service agreements.
Providing training and monitoring of staff performance, ensure appropriate allocation of staff to their duties. Conduct catering audits of sites to ensure that standards are upheld and corrective actions taken, ensuring that high standards of quality and food safety are maintained at all times.
To provide support and assistance to the regeneration and fresh cooked menus provided by the catering locations for service users ensuring a high standard of service delivery in relation to all catering service functions, this includes helping with the day to day provision of all the catering provided within the localities of Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust, including hospitality, vending, retail and patient feeding.
You will be required to work with a high regard to food safety legislation and in accordance with the departments HACCP procedures and paper work and to provide a high-quality service to all customers using all catering facilities and provide efficient administrative support.
Main duties of the job
- Work autonomously and manage your own workload.
- Plan and organise straightforward activities, some judgements which will involve facts or situations requiring analysis.
- Duties may include cleaning, the preparation and presentation of customers' meals and beverages, and on occasion delivery duties. You will need to ensure Catering & Retail Support Assistant Higher level are provided with the equipment and provisions required for their role. Patient and Retail Catering Supervisors will be expected to demonstrate a flexible attitude to their work, to meet the needs of the Trust its customers and patients.
- Support line managers in identifying the skills and training required for all staff to meet facilities standards throughout the trust. The requirement to manage resources effectively and efficiently to provide a sustainable continuity of service, by ensuring there are sufficient catering materials available for use, ordering and topping up as necessary, organises and adjusts staff rotas within agreed work schedules
About us
Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust our success starts with you. The catering department is seeking motivated Supervisory staff member to assist in the provision of our patient meal service and our retail outlet which cater for Staff Visitors and Patients.
This is an exciting opportunity to join one of the first successful integrated care Foundation trusts in the UK with a reputation and a tradition of innovation which prides itself on its investment in staff both in terms of developing career skills but also its commitment to staff health and wellbeing.
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Details
Date posted
02 July 2025
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 3
Salary
£24,625 to £25,674 a year per annum/pro rata
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Part-time
Reference number
388-7215011-E&A-A
Job locations
Bayview Restaurant Torbay Hospital
Lowes Bridge
Torquay
TQ2 7AA
Employer details
Employer name
Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Bayview Restaurant Torbay Hospital
Lowes Bridge
Torquay
TQ2 7AA
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