Job overview

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An opportunity has arisen for a motivated individual who enjoys a challenge. This exciting new position is within the Facilities Division as Deputy Catering Lead covering four sites.

Your attention to detail, innovation and maintaining high standards of customer service, Food Hygiene, Safety and HACCP will be key to developing and delivering excellent patient catering, retail and hospitality services in line with The NHS National Food & Drink Standards. 

You will be supporting and working closely with the Catering Services Lead, and you will oversee  all in-house facilities for patient catering, retail and hospitality services.

You will have an excellent Chef background with the skills and experience of cooking in a commercial kitchen environment. 

This role is operational and the post holder will deputise for the Catering Services Lead. 

The catering service is a seven-day operation, some shift work including weekends will be necessary to provide leadership cover which will include staff briefing.

The post holder must ensure appropriate arrangements are in place so that a safe, efficient and quality catering service is provided for our patients, staff and visitors.

This role is a permanent position; however, we will consider a secondment / fixed term or student placement opportunity. 

Interview date: 22nd & 23^rd April 2025

Main duties of the job

Ensuring the catering service is compliant with:

 Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP) Food Safety System and  Food Hygiene and Safety Legislation 

NHSEI Standards for Healthcare Food and Drink

• Leading and mentoring the catering team to provide them with resources, encouragement, and support to enable them to succeed within the specific areas of responsibilities
• Under the leadership of the Catering Service Lead, effectively manage the budgetary resources and control the department’s expenditure within the agreed financial allocation.
• Regularly observe service delivery in the production kitchen, retail restaurant services, and ward level and exercising professional judgement to rectify any problems noted that relate to food production
• Provide professional catering leadership to the service, reacting to unplanned challenges using problem analysis, experience, and judgement to sometimes complex issues.

Working for our organisation

This role covers four main sites Moseley Hall Hospital, West Heath, West Midlands Rehabilitation Centre and Birmingham Dental Hospital.

Be Part of Our Team... 

BCHC has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehab Centre and one of Europe’s leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.

If you want to ‘Be Part of Our Team’ and work with a Foundation Trust which is continuously striving for best care and healthy communities, we want to hear from you.