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Catering Coordinator - Patient Dining

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Job Introduction

Sodexo Healthcare have a really interesting role at one of our leading hospital sites in South London. We are looking to recruit a Catering Coordinator within Patient Dining. In this role you’ll be responsible for the delivery of a high-quality patient focussed service across the site to meet the needs of a variety of service users.  You’ll be leading and mentoring a close-knit team of 7. This customer focussed essential role will be a great challenge for someone that prides themselves on excellent customer service and enjoys variety.

What’s in it for you?

•             Brilliant opportunity for someone with a strong catering background

•             Career progression opportunities

•             Customer facing, varied role

•             Competitive salary - £25k +

•             Collaborative, team orientated environment

Sodexo Healthcare is a leading provider of services to the NHS and private healthcare organisations in England. We provide quality of life services that improve patient and staff experience, raise standards and deliver financial benefits to our clients. We help to enhance the patient environment (including patient dining, cleaning/housekeeping, retail services), provide clinical support (equipment sterilisation) and manage technical estates teams (estates management, asset management, land maintenance and energy management).

Role Responsibility

  • To assist the General Manager to deliver budgeted profit and turnover for the service. Responsible for ensuring the Patient dining team comply with all Company and Trust policies
  • Oversee for compliance on food and H&S legislation. Responsible for the area ensuring that stock levels, wastage and labour are effectively managed
  • Accountable for the recruitment and management of direct reports.
  • Ensure that health and safety standards are understood and delivered across the site.
  • Contribute to discussions with the General Manager regarding sharing ideas and best practice to improve site performance.
  • Ensuring accuracy of operations to include overview of deliveries to site, appropriate storage of all goods to prevent substitutions to patient meals and to allow for accurate stock taking to occur
  • Deployment of the ward issues process to ensure all wards receive stores in a timely manner to agreed levels
  • Utilisation of Saffron to ensure all orders are accurately picked and all additional items are recorded to ensure an accurate consumption level is able to be tracked

The Ideal Candidate

  • Proven experience of leading a team within a service environment
  • Online menu ordering experience
  • Background in managing operations within a catering service
  • Ability to communicate effectively with team members and line manager
  • Experience of delivering relevant training, using company guidelines
  • Understanding of relevant Health & Safety, Employment and other legislative requirements
  • Experience of implementation and adherence to HACCP
  • Strong attention to detail and adherence to standards
  • Proven IT skills
  • Ability to deal with stressful situations with a flexible approach to the role
  • Analyse problems, develop opportunities and implement innovative solutions

Package Description

£25,000 - £27,000 + great benefits

London SW17

Permanent

Work Pattern - 40hrs pw Monday to Friday, flexibility essential as occasional weekend cover required

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.

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