Patient Catering Manager

Job summary

Patient Catering Manager

EXCITING OPPORTUNITY... JOIN EPSOM AND ST HELIER NHS TRUST AND MAKE A DIFFERENCE.

A great opportunity has arisen for a motivated and passionate individual to join the Patient Catering Department at Epsom and St Helier Hospital, in Sutton.

Managing the delivery of high quality Patient Catering Service across the Trust including all aspects of human and financial resource management will promoting theeffective communication between the clinical team and catering department.

***Salary £19.42 per hour. Please note this opportunity is NOT Agenda For Change and terms & conditions vary from Agenda for Change***

Main duties of the job

• To be responsible for the management and delivery of high quality Patient catering service across the Trust, including all aspects of human and financial resource management.
• To assist the Deputy Head of Catering in the development of strategic operational plans, and policies whilst ensuring the delivery of a safe, quality, cost effective Patient Catering Service.
• To project manage various initiatives pertaining to the delivery of the above services.
• To manage the day to day effective communication between the clinical team and catering department
• To support the management of the retail catering operations across sites
• To work with Catering Dietician to ensure nutritional requirements are fulfilled for patient catering Services including seasonal patient menu development and implementation.

About us

Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust provides a range of medical services to approximately 490,000 people living across southwest London and northeast Surrey. In addition, we provide more specialist services, in particular renal and neonatal intensive care, to a wider area, covering parts of Sussex and Hampshire.

We serve an area that is rich in diversity, with a mix of urban and rural areas, and differing levels of quality of life. We cover some of the most prosperous postcodes in the country, as well as some poorer areas. Together with our colleagues at NHS Surrey and NHS Sutton and Merton, we work to make sure that we deliver the best possible care to the communities we serve.

The Trust employs approximately 5,000 staff across its hospitals and is supported by over 500 volunteers.