Soft Services Facilities Manager

Job Introduction

An excellent opportunity has become available within a community hospital in Edinburgh for a Soft Services facilities manager with a strong catering background.

The 60-bed hospital is set in a gorgeous building and provides long term mental health and palliative care services to residents. As the stay in this setting can be anywhere from a couple of months to several years, the hospital aims to provide a welcoming, warm and comfortable environment.

With help from the Assistant Manager you would lead a team of 22 staff, providing catering, domestic, laundry, waste, pest control and maintenance porterage services. This role would be most suitable to someone with a background in catering services and a residential type of environment (hospitals, care homes, hospices, prisons, boarding schools, etc).

We offer a great working environment, a friendly team, a salary of £25,000 - £28,000, Sodexo employee benefits and excellent development and progression opportunities within the company.

Role Responsibility

Role Responsibility

• Run day to day operations on site, ensuring high level service delivery
• Develop and maintain excellent working relationships with all stakeholders
• Team management
• Operational budget responsibility
• Achieving Financial targets
• Health & Safety responsibility on site

The Ideal Candidate

• Substantial managerial experience
• Sound understanding of Catering Services Management
• Previous experience in a similar setting – hospitals, prisons, residential schools, etc.
• Great people management skills
• Good financial sense
• IT literate
• Ideally – CIEH L3 Food Safety qualification

Package Description

£25,000 to £28,000 + great benefits

Ellens Glen, Edinburgh, EH16 

Permanent

Work Pattern - 40hrs pw Mon to Friday 

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.