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The Patient Catering Manager is responsible for managing the patient catering service at Chesterfield Royal Hospital.  

The catering service provides breakfast, lunch, supper, snacks and beverages  for approximately 560 patients each day.

All meals are prepared by the on-site third party provider, Sodexo and are served to patients by the Patient Catering team.

The post holder will have management responsibility for four catering supervisors and 80 Patient Catering Assistants.  They will report directly to the Deputy Head of Facilities.

The Patient Catering Manager will also be responsible for HACCP systems and all legislative requirements.

Paramount to the role is the management of the third party catering supplier, which is currently Sodexo.  

Derbyshire Support and Facilities Services Limited currently do not offer a Certificate of Sponsorship, any applications which require sponsorship will not be considered

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Ensuring patient catering services are delivered efficiently and effectively to include management of key contracts, budgets and KPIs

Ensuring compliance with external bodies and standards such as CQC, ERIC, PLACE, PAM, FOI requests, and Food Standards agency by taking the lead on benchmarking, data returns and compliance reporting.

 To performance manage Patient Catering Services against departmental targets and a range of KPI’s, providing first line investigation and resolution of KPI performance issues on behalf of the Head of Facilities.

 Responsible for statutory and regulatory requirements within food safety/ HACCP and best practice

Generate and implement new ideas for innovation and service delivery and act as a catalyst for change management and implementation of continuous improvement initiatives across all areas of the directorate.

Actively manage the quality of service delivery of the patient catering contract.  Involve all key stakeholders in service reviews and service development as appropriate

Vigorously manage food quality ensuring high levels of patient satisfaction to enhance the patient experience

Responsibility for the management of Patient Service Supervisory team, inclusive of workload management, the production of rotas, training and development, appraisal, sickness absence monitoring, recruitment and issues related to grievance and disciplinary in accordance with Trust policies.

Gweithio i'n sefydliad

Derbyshire Support and Facilities Services Ltd. (DSFS) is a subsidiary company that’s 100% owned by Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

DSFS has just over 900 staff across Soft and Hard Facilities Services, and our corporate services including, ICT, Patient Records, Switchboard, Procurement, Finance and Clinical Engineering. Very much part of the ‘Chesterfield Royal family’, DSFS builds on solid NHS foundations to offer a more commercial approach that’s dynamic, flexible, and proactive.

DSFS are proud to be striving to achieve a truly diverse and inclusive flexible workforce by valuing and welcoming everyone’s abilities, uniqueness, and individuality. All our colleagues have the right to and should be able to feel 100% themselves at work; we believe that all our people add to and should improve our culture and not just fit in with it. By embracing our diverse backgrounds and differences our culture becomes richer and makes us stronger together. 

Derbyshire Support and Facilities Services Limited currently do not offer a Certificate of Sponsorship, any applications which require sponsorship will not be considered

Flexible Working

If you're looking for flexible or predictable working arrangements, please speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate this. If it works for our service and patients, we will do our best to make it work for you.

 VISA's and Immigration system

Derbyshire Support and Facilities Services Limited currently do not offer a Certificate of Sponsorship, any applications which require sponsorship will not be considered at this point in time.

When DSFS Ltd are able to offer sponsorship to work in the United Kingdom (UK), applicants will be required to provide full and accurate details of your current immigration status on the application form.  Overseas applicants applying for entry clearance into the UK must present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided in continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years.  Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

COVID19 Vaccination

Derbyshire Support and Facilities Services (‘DSFS’) is committed to ensuring the safety of all our staff and patients therefore encourages and supports staff to be vaccinated against COVID19 as this remains the best line of defence against the virus.

Communications 

Communications throughout the application process will be via e-mail therefore please check your e-mail account and NHS Jobs (where applicable) account regularly.

References are also requested by email (where possible). Therefore, to speed up the recruitment process please provide an up tgo date email address for all referees when completing your application form.

If you require any support in completing the application form, please do not hesitate to contact the DSFS Human Resources team on 01246 513737 / [email protected] and we will be happy to provide assistance.

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