Catering General Manager (Back of House Manager)
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Job summary
We are recruiting for a Catering General Manager (Back of House Manager)who wishes to join #TeamIOWNHS. You should share our passion and drive to ensure that our patients receive quality and compassionate care and work with us to ensure the Trust continues its journey towards "great people, great place".
The role will be to provide a comprehensive kitchen service, ensuring a well-run and maintained kitchen, whilst adhering to health and safety compliance and cleanliness standards. To guarantee success, you will effectively manage, support, and develop your team guiding them to deliver a quality service.
Joining the Isle of Wight Trust is your next career move - an exciting opportunity awaits candidates with ambition and vision. A proven track record of team management within a busy kitchen environment and striving for continuous improvement will be key. This role is suited to passionate candidates who are service focused and want to make a difference in a flexible and diverse role.
Responsible to the Senior Catering and Commercial Services Manager, you will ensure the safe, legal, and effective production of food in the Trust's Central Kitchen.
You will directly manage a team including the Head Chefs, Kitchen Porters and Multi-skilled Kitchen Assistants. This will include briefings, training and generally supporting the management of staff.
Main duties of the job
Our Catering Service is seven days a week, your role will be to ensure appropriate arrangements are always in place to provide effective service. Directly managing the Kitchen, you will be responsible for the quality of the service, its legislative compliance and financial efficiency.
As a pivotal part of the Kitchen Management team, you will be working alongside the Catering Front-of-House and Compliance Managers providing support and cover for each other, both routinely for rostered days off and for annual leave or other absences. This will require regularly performing duties of your colleagues (Catering Compliance and Front of House Managers), including the provision of line management to staff normally reporting to other members of the Catering Management team.
You will be a Responsible Person for ensuring compliance with the Food Safety Regulations (England) 2013 Regulations, liaising directly with the Local Authority Environmental Health Officers for this purpose.
Our core service hours are 06:30-19:30, Monday to Sunday. Shift working will be necessary to ensure appropriate management cover across these times. There will also be occasions where you will be required to deputise for the Senior Catering and Commercial Services Manager.
About us
The Isle of Wight NHS Trust is the only integrated acute, community, mental health and ambulance health care provider in England. We serve a population of approximately 150,000 residents, making the services we offer variable and personalised with a flexible approach to our service users.
Working for our Trust brings a variety of benefits, including an onsite day nursery, cycle-to-work scheme, discounts at local businesses and gyms, and the opportunity to hire Trust's beach hut in Ryde. We offer many flexible working opportunities, speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement for you and if it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
The Isle of Wight is a unique and stunning gem located off the South Coast of England, a short ferry journey from Portsmouth and Southampton, with journey times taking from as little as 10 minutes. London can be reached in 90 minutes by rail from Southampton or Portsmouth. The island offers an amazing coastline with beautiful countryside, year-round events, festivals and award-winning attractions.
Our 2020-2025 strategy sets out to ensure that we continue to be a provider of excellent and compassionate care. As part of this strategy, we are proactively taking steps to ensure that we recruit and retain the highest quality of talent to provide CARE and we would welcome applications from under-represented groups to ensure our Trust is an inclusive and diverse employer.
Details
Date posted
13 December 2023
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 5
Salary
£28,407 to £34,581 a year per annum/pro rata
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time, Flexible working
Reference number
470-23-0015-COR
Job locations
St Mary's Hospital
Newport, Isle of Wight
PO30 5TG
Employer details
Employer name
Isle of Wight NHS Trust
Address
St Mary's Hospital
Newport, Isle of Wight
PO30 5TG
Employer's website
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