Patient Dining Manager

• Patient Dining Manager
• £35,000 Per Year
• 40 Hours Per Week
• 5 Days Over 7
• Location is Stoke Mandeville Hospital, Mandeville Road, Bucks, HP21 8AL

Join our team at Stoke Mandeville Hospital as a Patient Dining Manager and play a vital role in delivering exceptional dining experiences for our patients. In this key leadership position, you will support the General Manager of Patient Services to ensure the provision of a high quality, cost effective patient dining service that meets contractual requirements and performance standards. Your ability to foster strong relationships with the SPV and Trust Property Service Team will be essential in promoting a collaborative approach to service excellence. If you are passionate about enhancing patient care through outstanding service delivery and thrive in a dynamic healthcare environment, we invite you to apply for this rewarding opportunity.

What You'll Do:

• To maintain and develop the patient dining experience with safety at the forefront
• To ensure that all staff are paid correctly and in a timely manner using the KRONOS system
• To ensure that all procedures for food safety are followed and correct equipment and materials are used to meet the required standards and that these are used safely and stored correctly
• To update and implement menu changes working with both Sodexo and Trust dieticians.
• Work with all Patient Dining suppliers to ensure stock availability and menu refreshes.
• Constantly assess the risk to the Trust/SPV for all Patient Dining Management provisions including HACCP/ COSHH /Risk Assessments and Equipment asset register

What You Bring:

• Minimum of level 3 food safety and to work towards level 4 food safety
• Knowledge of EHO requirements for a hospital environment
• Experience of working in a food based industry
• Proven experience of managing a diverse workforce within a service environment
• Proven experience of managing to budget requirements within a catering service
• Experienced in training and development of staff

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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