Main area Catering Grade NHS AfC: Band 3 Contract Permanent Hours
* Part time
* Job share
* Flexible working
35 hours per week (Working 35 hours per week, 7 hours a day, working 5 weekends out of 7. The hours will be between 7.00 am - 8.00 pm. The rota pattern will be explained on interview.)
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Site Royal Albert Edward Infirmary Town Wigan Salary £24,071 - £25,674 per annum, pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 07/04/2025 08:00
Choose Well - Choose WWL
Job overview
We are looking for a dynamic Catering Supervisor.
The post will be responsible for the supervision of meal service to patients, staff and visitors.
The candidate should demonstrate a passion for food and great customer care skills that will deliver high standards of care with compassion to both patients and customers. Strong leadership skills are desirable.
Please note this vacancy may close early if a high number of applications are received.
Main duties of the job
* Ensure meals are produced to the highest standards, following food safety legislation and protocols, under the direction of the Assistant Catering Manager.
* Complete and manage paperwork and documents associated with the delivery of service.
* Support and assist the Assistant Catering Managers as required.
Working for our organisation
Choose Well – Choose WWL
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust are the proud providers of acute hospital and community services to the people of the Wigan Borough and surrounding areas. At WWL, we value our staff believing that ‘happy staff, makes for happy patients’. We have a recognised track record in staff engagement and living our values.
WWL are committed to placing the patient at the heart of everything we do, and in the provision of safe, effective care that acknowledges and ensures dignity. We are seeking to recruit people who share our values and beliefs.
Good basic salary plus an attractive package of benefits which include:
* Excellent Pension & Life Assurance Package (over 20% employer contribution)
* Excellent annual leave entitlements 27 to 33 days per annum dependent upon service.
* Paid occupational maternity, paternity, and adoption leave dependent upon service.
* Training opportunities and eLearning resources.
* Health and wellbeing support.
* Career Progression opportunities within Estates & Facilities and the NHS.
* Access to salary sacrifice schemes for items such as lease vehicles and buy a bike schemes.
* NHS Discount schemes to access hundreds of discounts and savings from everything to High Street Stores to restaurants, family holidays and more.
* Long Service Awards.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
* Organisation of the Kitchen and Associated areas.
* Allocation of work to Catering Assistants.
* Supervision of food production and service, including the satisfactory completion of monitoring forms.
* Responsible for ensuring preparation, cooking and service of meals occurs to strict timetables and deadlines.
* Ensure all meals conform to the correct recipe, quantity, quality and appearance.
* Forecast menu requirement based on historical data.
* Checking monitoring/audit forms for accuracy and to ensure remedial action has been taken.
* Ensure adherence to Food Safety Legislation and local codes of practice.
* In the event of a Major Incident or critical failure, the correct procedures are followed, and action is taken so meal service can be continued.
* Assist management in the planning of menus and recipes.
* Assist management in the production of food safety protocols including Critical control points.
* Understand the need for special therapeutic and cultural dietary requirements.
* Attend relevant meetings.
* Production and management of relevant paperwork to support the business of the Trust.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Educated to GCSE or equivalent level for example functional skills level 2
* CIEHO Intermediate Food Hygiene Certificate, or equivalent
* 706/1/2 City & Guilds or equivalent
* CIEHO Advanced Food Hygiene
* IOSH
* Supervisory Qualification
Experience
* Quality Monitoring of food production
* Substantial experience of large scale catering operation
* Previous experience of a cook chill system
* Previous experience as a supervisor including in an acting up role
Skills
* Excellent communication and organisational skills
* Ability to organise and prioritise day to day tasks
* Ability to use a variety of large scale equipment
* Ability to work under pressure
* Use of computer systems and packages
* Customer care skills with the ability to communicate with a range of people including patients and service users
Knowledge
* Knowledge of key temperature controls and food safety
* Knowledge of Cook chill
* An understanding of the importance of supervision
* Knowledge of audit procedures (including income through the shops)
* Knowledge of HR policies and procedures
Additional
* Work unsociable hours
* Flexibility to provide cover for colleagues
* Ability to travel independently between sites
* Speak English to an appropriate standard relevant to their role with confidence and accuracy using correct sentence structures and vocabulary and without hesitation
Our Trust prefers candidates to submit applications online. Please contact the Recruitment Team on 01942 244000 if you have difficulty applying online.
The Trust reserves the right to close adverts earlier than the stated closing date if there is a high volume of applications.
We endeavour to inform all applicants of the outcome of their application by email or SMS text message.
Guidance on Completing Your Application
Applications are scored against the person specification, therefore we recommend that you use the supporting information section of your application form to demonstrate how you meet the essential and desirable criteria for the role, providing illustrative examples where possible.
On-Call
Please note that some roles may require you to participate in an on-call rota, if the role is predominantly operational.
WWL has signed up to the Greater Manchester Continuous Service Commitment and will recognise your continuous or ‘unbroken’ service in any Greater Manchester Local Authority or NHS organisation, Transport for Greater Manchester, Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service or Greater Manchester Combined Authority; giving you access to our service-related benefits.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Name Mike Estwick Job title Assistant Catering Manager Email address mike.estwick@wwl.nhs.uk Telephone number 01942 822742
Ben Bailey
ben.bailey@wwl.nhs.uk
01942 773009
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Address Buckingham Row
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