Catering Manager

Birmingham Hospice is seeking a Catering Manager to join its Facilities Team.

• Are you an experienced Chef and Catering Manager?
• Would you like to work for an organisation focused on ensuring food choice and quality for our service users?
If you answered yes and are looking for a new challenge, we may have the perfect opportunity for you! This permanent position involves managing a unified catering service across our Erdington and Selly Park sites. The successful candidate will ensure a coordinated and compliant service, planning, producing, and serving high-quality, freshly prepared and nutritious food while adhering to food safety standards, including specific compliance with allergens, and overseeing team training.,
• Ensure compliance with food safety standards and allergen management.
• Manage and train the catering team to uphold safety and quality standards.
• Collaborate with relevant departments to ensure food of choice for service users, accommodating a variety of dietary needs, including those requiring different textures. This includes providing normal food options, as well as blended or puréed meals for patient needs.
• Oversee budgeting, costing, income, and expenditure management.
• Work in collaboration with the Inpatient Unit (IPU) to ensure we provide the right food choices, supporting Birmingham Hospice in delivering outstanding patient care.
  
  Proven experience in managing budgets, costing, income, and expenditure (this is essential).
• Flexibility to work various shifts, including weekends and holidays.
• Excellent communication, organisation, and time management skills.
• Experience in conducting audits and ensuring compliance.
• Proven line management experience.
• Level 3 Food Hygiene certification as a minimum.
• A positive and professional attitude.
  
  Barbara Bennett, a Healthcare Assistant at Birmingham Hospice's Erdington site, was inspired to join the hospice after seeing the expert palliative care her dad, Frederick, received there.
Having worked in healthcare for 30 years, Barbara decided it was time she went into palliative and end of life care after helping to care for her father when he was diagnosed with heart failure, kidney failure and dementia. Read Barbara's story Equality, Diversity and Inclusion The hospice is committed to developing a dynamic and diverse workforce, representative of the communities it serves. We ask you, therefore, to complete the Equal Opportunities monitoring form to help us in this aim. We value each person as an individual - whether they are colleagues, patients, family members, carers or supporters, every person matters. We embrace diversity of culture, background and environment knowing it enriches our workplace and our relationships with our local communities. We are committed to building a culture of inclusion and belonging. We would love to hear from you, about what makes you uniquely you and how this opportunity will support you to succeed.