Chef Manager

• Chef Manager
• 40 Hours Per Week
• Salary Range of £32,000 to £35,000 (Dependant on experience)
  
• 5 Days over 7
• Location is Manchester Foundation Trust Hospital, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9WL

Job Introduction

Join the dedicated catering supervisory team at Manchester Foundation Trust Hospital, where you will play a vital role in delivering exceptional food services across our hospital wards and back of house operations. As a key leader, you will oversee and ensure that our catering team consistently provides high quality, patient centred food services that meet stringent contractual standards and exceed expectations. Your expertise will drive excellence in food safety, service standards, and operational efficiency, contributing to the overall patient experience and staff satisfaction. This is a unique opportunity to lead a dynamic team within a prestigious healthcare environment, combining your passion for hospitality with your commitment to delivering care that truly makes a difference.

What You'll Do:

• Supervise and coordinate catering staff to deliver high quality catering services, ensuring compliance with health and safety regulations.
• Monitor daily catering operations, including temperature checks, record keeping, and adherence to HACCP regulations.
• Manage staff duties, allocate responsibilities, and facilitate ongoing training to ensure a skilled and compliant team.
• Maintain equipment cleanliness, report maintenance issues, and ensure safety standards are met across all catering areas.
• Ensure staff adhere to PPE, uniform policies, and infection control protocols, including hand hygiene and confidentiality.
• Handle staff sickness absence, conduct return to work interviews, and manage annual leave requests.
• Support health and safety procedures, accident reporting, and escalate incidents or non compliance issues promptly.
• Provide excellent customer care, communicate effectively with colleagues, patients, and visitors, and promote a professional image.
• Demonstrate strong organisational skills in stock control, ordering, and planning work schedules to ensure efficient service delivery.

What You Bring:

• Good communication skills to enable communication with colleagues, patients and clients regarding on job duties.
• Ability to work as part of a team.
• Good level of customer care.
• Experience of working in a catering environment (desirable).
• Good understanding of health and safety and manual handling practices.

What we offer:

Working with Sodexo is more than a job; it’s a chance to be part of something greater. You’ll belong in a company and team that values you for you; you’ll act with purpose and have an impact through your everyday actions; and you’ll be able to thrive in your own way. In addition, we also offer a range of resources, rewards and benefits for our colleagues and their families:

• Unlimited access to an online platform offering mental health and wellbeing support.
• Employee Assistance Programme to help with everyday issues or larger problems where you may need additional support, including legal and financial advice, support with work related issues or personal issues such as bereavement.
• Access to a free health and wellbeing app that provides rewards for maintaining a healthy lifestyle and includes access to a 24hr virtual GP and various other services.
• The Sodexo Discounts Scheme, offering great deals 24/7 (also open to friends and family) and/or the prepayment cashback card.
• Money Insights and financial benefits via the Salary Finance Platform.
• Save for your future by becoming a member of the Sodexo Retirement Plan
• A Death in Service benefit for colleagues who pass away whilst employed by Sodexo
• Opportunities to enable colleagues to grow and succeed throughout their career at Sodexo, including a variety of learning and development tools.
• Cycle to Work Scheme to help colleagues to do their bit for the environment whilst keeping fit.
• Volunteering Opportunities to enable all colleagues to help support worthwhile causes in our communities.
• Flexible and dynamic work environment
• Competitive compensation
• Full training and full protective uniform supplied.

Ready to be part of something greater? Apply today! Career progression for the caring profession.

Sodexo reserves the right to close this advertisement early if we are in receipt of a high volume of applications.

About Sodexo

At Sodexo, our purpose is to create a better every day for everyone to build a better life for all. As the global leader in services that improve the Quality of Life, we operate in 55 countries, serving over 100 million consumers each day through our unique combination of Onsite Food and FM Services, Benefits and Rewards Services and Personal and Home Services.

We are committed to being an inclusive employer. We are a forces friendly employer. We welcome and encourage applications from people with a diverse variety of experiences, backgrounds, and identities. We encourage our employees to get involved with our Employee Networks such as Pride, Sodexo Parents and Carers, Sodexo Disability, Ability network, So Together, Generations and Origins.

We’re a Disability Confident Leader employer. We’re committed to changing attitudes towards disability, and making sure disabled people have the chance to fulfil their aspirations. We run a Disability Confident interview scheme for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria for the job.

Click here to read more about what we do to promote an inclusive culture.

Sodexo Disability, Ability network, So Together, Generations and Origins.

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