Catering Supervisor

Overview

Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals have an exciting opportunity for a full time Catering Supervisor to work within the RVI Catering Departments Team of the Year 2022.

The role is based at the Royal Victoria Infirmary Catering Department, working 37.5 hours a week, 5 days over 7 on rotational roster working 2 weekends our of 3. You will be working as a part of a small supervisory team under the direction of a Senior Supervisor to ensure the smooth running of the department. You will be working between 6.00am and 14.00pm and 12.00pm to 20.00pm on a 3-week rotational roster.

Apart from joining Newcastle Hospitals Team of the 2022 we offer exceptional staff benefits, good holiday pay and excellent weekend enhancement pay.

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• Supervising of catering team of up to 70 staff.
• Communication between catering, wards and departments.
• Putting menus through the Catering system and ensure menus are put up for wards.
• Daily work sheets, rosters and managing overtime, holidays and sickness.
• Using in house allocate system for pay and holidays.
• Working in line with Departments HACCP system.
• Ensuring Department meets all health and Hygiene Regulations.
• Monitoring of the patient food belt to ensure quality, presentation and the correct food is served to a patient.
• Interaction with Ward staff.
• Effective use of resources staffing allocation additional hours etc
• Conducting staff appraisals, departmental induction, undertake risk assessment training, moving and handling and first aid training.
• Working with Diet chef to ensure patients dietary needs are met and allergen information is correct.

Knowledge and Experience with a broad range of cooking methods would be an advantage along with been qualified to City & Guilds 706/2 or NVQ Level 3 in Food Preparation and also have Level 2 Food Hygiene qualification, or have the relevant experience in large scale catering. A working supervisory role with responsibilities for a food production/service shift with the emphasis on food hygiene and safety standards, quality control and supervisory management.

Working for our organisation

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

With around 2 million contacts with patients every year, we deliver care from:

• Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI)
• Freeman Hospital
• Newcastle Dental Hospital
• Cramlington Manor Walks
• Urgent treatment centres
• Newcastle Fertility Centre
• Northern Centre for Cancer Care, North Cumbria
• Northern Genetics Service

These include a range of flagship services which deliver cutting-edge care (supported by state-of-the-art diagnostic services in both radiology and pathology) and are a catalyst for innovation to support pioneering clinical practice in the NHS.

We also have offices at Regent Point in Gosforth and community sites.

Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust under ‘Documents to download’ or ‘Supporting documents’.

For further information on The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust please visit:
Careers | Newcastle Hospitals | NHS | Newcastle Hospitals and Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

• A working supervisory role with responsibilities for a food production/service shift with the emphasis on food hygiene and safety standards, quality control and supervisory management.

Person specification

Qualifications & Education

Essential criteria

• NVQ Level 3 Supervisory Leadership Qualification or equivalent experience
• Intermediate Food Hygiene Qualification Level 2 Allergen Qualification or equivalent

Desirable criteria

• City & Guilds 706/2 or NVQ 3 (food preparation)

Knowledge & Experience

Essential criteria

• Basic Information Technology skills to include Word and Excel
• Working in a customer focused environment
• Understand and maintain confidentiality

Desirable criteria

• Previous experience in large scale catering
• Knowledge of (HACCP)…