Food & Safety Manager

Job Introduction

Food and Safety Manager

This is an amazing opportunity for a qualified Food and Safety Manager to work on a part time basis over three consecutive days per week. Demonstrate your skills and experience and make a real difference within our great team at the award winning Queens Hospital Romford.

As a Food and Safety Manager at Queens Hospital Ability you will be able to establish and maintain good working relationships at all levels and  have experience of managing food /health & safety safety in a similar environment.

The successful candidate will work proactively with managers to support, establish and maintain safe systems of work and a safe environment for colleagues and customers. To ensure that there is a provision of competent safety/food advice to all managers and front-line staff across safety matters on both an emergency and routine basis.

Certification to Level 6 Health and Safety Qualification (or to be met within agreed timescale) ,commitment to HSE management and experience within an HSE role and  Level 4 food Safety are essential for this role.

Role Responsibility

What you will be doing  

• Develop and lead the operation and promotion of an integrated management system, encompassing a pro-active environmental, health and safety culture across the operational teams. Utilising the Sodexo management system policies and procedures, including risk assessment, accident prevention, health & safety initiatives and acknowledged personal responsibility.
• Facilitate the maintenance and management of environmental health, safety and well-being through systems, audit/inspection and the establishment of high standards and expectations on employees of service excellence and safety awareness behaviours /performance.
• To promote compliance with the Sodexo Food Safety Management System for Health Care contracts and to ensure that all units are audited every 6 months through effective deployment of the Integrated Audit
• To report on the performance of the Food safety audits Management review meetings, and use this as a forum for any improvements
• Full JD Available 

The Ideal Candidate

What you will bring

Desirable

• Experience in soft FM safety management
• ▪EHO
• ▪Diploma in Food Safety and Food legislation.
• ▪Good organizational and communication skills and production of concise information.
• ▪Ability to prioritise, work to tight deadlines, both prescribed and self –imposed.
• ▪Ability to establish and maintain good working relationships at all levels.
• ▪Experience of managing food /health & safety safety in a similar environment
• ▪Able to demonstrate achievement of continuous improvement in the workplace
• ▪Experience of presenting at client review forums and completing relevant information

Package Description

In return for your hard work you will be rewarded with an attractive salary of up to £28'000 with a company profit related bonus of up to 15% and a flexible benefits fund payment. 

This is a job share role requiring 24 hours per week

(3 days consecutively)

We also offer Sodexo Discounts site promoting discounted mobile phone tariffs, savings across restaurant chains and days out, where you and your family can save money on everything from your weekly food shop to the latest cinema blockbuster and much more

About the Company

In the UK and Ireland, Sodexo employs around 30,000 people, and partners with clients in many sectors across business and industry; schools and universities; sports and leisure; energy and resources; government and agencies; healthcare; justice and defence.

Sodexo’s connected; people-centric approach brings together a diverse range of expertise. The breadth of services it offers ranges from food and hospitality; cleaning; reception; concierge (Circles); security; property management and technical services through to data driven workplace strategy and design (Wx); employee engagement and recognition services (Sodexo Engage) and personal home services through Prestige Nursing + Care and the Good Care Group.  

Vital Spaces is Sodexo’s value proposition that puts people at the heart of everything we do, bringing together services and solutions and focusing on the productivity and wellbeing of people wherever they are.

Sodexo is committed to being an inclusive employer; we welcome and encourage applications from people with a diverse variety of experiences, backgrounds and identities.

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 are building on our support to the Armed Forces community through the development of specific pathways within our recruitment process to  support ex-forces personnel and reservists, those applying for jobs with us who meet the ideal candidate criteria for the role advertised are guaranteed to progress to the selection process.