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Job summary

Main area
Catering Management
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 6
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week (occasional weekends may be required)
Job ref
196-ESS1467-H
Employer
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
St Thomas' Hosptial
Town
London
Salary
£44,806 - £53,134 per annum (incl. of HCAA)
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
01/01/2025 23:59

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Kitchen Manager

NHS AfC: Band 6

Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.

Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.

Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions. 

Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.

In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.

We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.

Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.

The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.

We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.



Job overview

Guy's and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Kitchen Manager to join the Central Production Catering Team.

The successful candidate will be responsible for the running of the Central Production Unit, providing over 3,500 cooked/chilled meals per day to the patients and staff across both the Guy’s and St. Thomas’ Site. This busy operation needs a Kitchen Manager to support the Production Catering Manager to ensure we are providing an excellent and exceptional service.

You will need to be self-motivated, have a flexible approach to work, be able to work as part of a team, and have the ability use your initiative. Good communication skills are essential for the successful candidate to be able to liaise with a multi-disciplinary team and ensure excellent standards.  Managing and developing the team, together with delivering excellent  service and food hygiene practices at all times, is essential.   

This challenging role is a great opportunity for the right individual that has good cooked/chilled knowledge and experience along with the flare and innovation to enhance the patients and staff experience whilst offering healthy food in line with Trust and government guidelines.

Main duties of the job

  • Creates and maintains good working relations through good communication, appropriate procedures and effective teamwork.
  • Promotes a healthy and safe working environment in accordance with Health & Safety Legislation and the procedures and systems within the department meet all statutory requirements.
  • Recruitment and Selection of staff within the Central Production Unit.
  • Monitors effective allocation of annual leave.
  • Control of supervisors and staffing levels, co-ordinating weekly rotas to ensure the adequate staffing and supervisory cover exists as necessary.
  • Monitor staff performance. Constant monitoring of staff sickness and absence to acceptable levels. Meetings with staff in accordance with the Trust’s Policies. Issue warnings where necessary up to and including a written warning. Liaise the results with Production Catering Manager.
  • Conduct Performance Reviews with supervisors and staff and agree performance objectives.

Working for our organisation

Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK’s best known hospitals – Guy’s, St Thomas’, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield – as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.

We are among the UK’s busiest, most successful foundation trusts. We provide specialist care for patients including heart and lung, cancer and renal services as well as a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Lambeth and Southwark.

We have a long tradition of clinical and scientific achievement and – as part of King’s Health Partners – we are one of England’s eight academic health sciences centres, bringing together world-class clinical services, teaching and research. We have one of the National Institute for Health Research’s biomedical research centres, established with King’s College London in 2007, as well as dedicated clinical research facilities.

We have around 22,700 staff, making us one of the largest NHS Trusts in the country and one of the biggest employers locally. We aim to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve and continue to develop new and existing partnerships with local people, patients, neighbouring NHS organisations, local authorities and charitable bodies and GPs.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for a full list of role requirements and main responsibilities. 

Person specification

Qualifications/Education

Essential criteria
  • Educated to degree level with an appropriate post graduate qualification
  • Intermediate level 4 food hygiene qualification
  • Health & Safety training qualification
Desirable criteria
  • HCCAP qualification
  • Risk Assessment qualification
  • Advanced food hygiene certificate
  • Manual handling policy knowledge

Professional/Statutory Registration

Essential criteria
  • Track record of significant continuous professional and management development

Previous experience

Essential criteria
  • Experience and knowledge of high volume cook-chill operation
  • IT literate in Microsoft applications and Catering software
  • Experienced in HR, in particular training and disciplinary procedures
  • Management experience with a catering environment with responsibility for more than 20 personnel
  • Demonstrable record in leading and motivating staff members
Desirable criteria
  • Experience of a hospital cook chill facility

Skills/Knowledge/Ability

Essential criteria
  • Strong interpersonal and people management skills
  • Resilient management skills in communication, team working and negotiation
  • Ability to manage time, prioritise work load and meet deadlines
  • Able to work without direct supervision
  • Able to design and implement robust systems which are implemented by management and staff
  • Able to express complex issues, both orally and in writing
  • Good financial management and analysis skills

Physical Requirements

Essential criteria
  • Physically capable of carrying out all the duties contained with the job description, notwithstanding the requirements of the Equality Act

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Corrinne Habbershaw
Job title
Production Catering Manager
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
07715488878
Additional information

020 7188 7188 x 52472

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