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The Post Graduate Education Department is responsible for the delivery and quality control of medical/clinical education within the Trust and community to meet statutory requirements and improve the standards of patient care through training.
The role supports the provision of teaching and meeting room facilities by managing and providing a catering service to conference rooms and the dining room., Prepare, cook, present, and serve nutritious and appetising meals for staff and visitors to the centre
Submit orders for provisions (to include sandwiches/paninis etc and non-food items) to suppliers to ensure timely arrival to deliver the catering service. Checking of deliveries and signing/authorising delivery notes/invoices
Use quarterly footfall data to aid provisions ordering and menu planning
Maintain provisions and stock waste sheets to ensure that all kitchen stock is accounted for
Maintain records for sandwich orders and sales
Manage the delegated budget on a day to day basis referring to the Deputy Medical Education Manager as Line Manager and budget holder
Undertake the operational management of all kitchen equipment ensuring it is fit for purpose and in working order. A record of all equipment (crockery, cutlery, cooking equipment, cold storage equipment, etc) is to be maintained
Responsible for customer service requirements ensuring positive customer relations are maintained
Manage electronic till and EPOS system
Liaise with the Centre Administrator regarding room bookings and hospitality requirements and supervise the hospitality provision (trolley delivery/recovery, buffets, academic half day refreshments etc)
Maintaining records in collaboration with the Centre Finance Administrator detailing income/outgoings, sales information, analysing these for service improvement and cost reductions
Ensure mandatory and statutory record keeping is maintained, i.e. temperature (hot and cold) monitoring, Health & Safety Assessments, opening/closing routine. These records must be held and maintained for EHO inspection
Allergy information for all meals/hospitality is provided and records captured on a weekly basis
Manage staff in line with Trust Policies and procedures
Ensure team members are trained to conduct their duties
Allergy information for all meals/hospitality is provided and records captured on a weekly basis
Catering support is provided to out of hours centre activity, as required
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.
We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.
We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR - Epic - went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.
Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.
Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.
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