Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Kitchen Manager to join the Central Production Catering Team.

The successful candidate will be responsible for the running of the Central Production Unit, providing over 3,500 cooked/chilled meals per day to the patients and staff across both the Guy's and St. Thomas' Site. This busy operation needs a Kitchen Manager to support the Production Catering Manager to ensure we are providing an excellent and exceptional service.

You will need to be self-motivated, have a flexible approach to work, be able to work as part of a team, and have the ability use your initiative. Good communication skills are essential for the successful candidate to be able to liaise with a multi-disciplinary team and ensure excellent standards. Managing and developing the team, together with delivering excellent service and food hygiene practices at all times, is essential.

This challenging role is a great opportunity for the right individual that has good cooked/chilled knowledge and experience along with the flare and innovation to enhance the patients and staff experience whilst offering healthy food in line with Trust and government guidelines.

Main duties of the job

• Creates and maintains good working relations through good communication, appropriate procedures and effective teamwork.
• Promotes a healthy and safe working environment in accordance with Health & Safety Legislation and the procedures and systems within the department meet all statutory requirements.
• Recruitment and Selection of staff within the Central Production Unit.
• Monitors effective allocation of annual leave.
• Control of supervisors and staffing levels, co-ordinating weekly rotas to ensure the adequate staffing and supervisory cover exists as necessary.
• Monitor staff performance. Constant monitoring of staff sickness and absence to acceptable levels. Meetings with staff in accordance with the Trust's Policies. Issue warnings where necessary up to and including a written warning. Liaise the results with Production Catering Manager.
• Conduct Performance Reviews with supervisors and staff and agree performance objectives.

About us

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK's best known hospitals - Guy's, St Thomas', Evelina London Children's Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield - as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.

We are among the UK's busiest, most successful foundation trusts. We provide specialist care for patients including heart and lung, cancer and renal services as well as a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Lambeth and Southwark.

We have a long tradition of clinical and scientific achievement and - as part of King's Health Partners - we are one of England's eight academic health sciences centres, bringing together world-class clinical services, teaching and research. We have one of the National Institute for Health Research's biomedical research centres, established with King's College London in 2007, as well as dedicated clinical research facilities.

We have around 22,700 staff, making us one of the largest NHS Trusts in the country and one of the biggest employers locally. We aim to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve and continue to develop new and existing partnerships with local people, patients, neighbouring NHS organisations, local authorities and charitable bodies and GPs.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for a full list of role requirements and main responsibilities.

Person Specification

Qualifications/Education

Essential

• Educated to degree level with an appropriate post graduate qualification
• Intermediate level 4 food hygiene qualification
• Health & Safety training qualification

Desirable

• HCCAP qualification
• Risk Assessment qualification
• Advanced food hygiene certificate
• Manual handling policy knowledge

Professional/Statutory Registration

Essential

• Track record of significant continuous professional and management development

Previous experience

Essential

• Experience and knowledge of high volume cook-chill operation
• IT literate in Microsoft applications and Catering software
• Experienced in HR, in particular training and disciplinary procedures
• Management experience with a catering environment with responsibility for more than 20 personnel
• Demonstrable record in leading and motivating staff members

Desirable

• Experience of a hospital cook chill facility

Skills/Knowledge/Ability

Essential

• Strong interpersonal and people management skills
• Resilient management skills in communication, team working and negotiation
• Ability to manage time, prioritise work load and meet deadlines
• Able to work without direct supervision
• Able to design and implement robust systems which are implemented by management and staff
• Able to express complex issues, both orally and in writing
• Good financial management and analysis skills

Physical Requirements

Essential

• Physically capable of carrying out all the duties contained with the job description, notwithstanding the requirements of the Equality Act

Employer details

Employer name

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

Address

St Thomas' Hosptial

Westminster Bridge Road

London

SE1 7EH

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