Overview
Join our department we provide all meals to patients on a daily basis whilst working alongside the nursing staff to ensure that all our patients have the correct dietary needs whilst in our care. With a workforce of approximately 15,000 staff, we can now do more and go further in delivering health services to our local communities. Our ambition is to deliver excellent local and specialist services, to improve the health and well being of our patients, and provide a vibrant place for staff to develop, innovate and build careers. Patients will experience improved care as well as fewer delays and cancellations. We are able to provide more once-in-a-lifetime specialist care region-wide. With our new trust size will come more opportunities for development, research, networking and innovation. We aim to make the most of our skills and experiences so we can become the best we can be. As one organisation we will recruit the finest and retain more specialist staff due to more employment opportunities across our Trust.
Responsibilities
* The role of Supervisoring a large department of staff will require long periods of time spent walking and standing througout the shift, concentration when working a rota to ensure staffing is organised, working on the wards as and when required, and occasional exporsure to distrressing circumstances.
* Be flexible in all other duties and areas in response to the business/customer/management needs. This may include supervising chill room and restaurant staff.
* To ensure that the presentation of all food are in accordance with agreed standards as defined by the Patient Catering Manager.
* To supervise the provision of patient catering ensuring that they are delivered punctually and dirties are collected in a timely manner.
* To ensure that all food hygiene, health and safety and other statutory legislation is adhered to at all time within all patient catering areas and that all stipulated records are maintained.
* To ensure that cleaning schedules are in place which will facilitate regular daily and scheduled cleaning of all equipment in the zonal, ward and department kitchens including topping up of consumables.
* Ensure that cleaning and temperature records are maintained to show compliance.
* Ensuring that stock is rotated in beverage bays, ward kitchens zonal kitchens and departmental kitchens and any out of date food is removed on a daily basis.
* Ensure that staffs take only designated breaks.
* Ensure that correct procedures are used in relation to the use of cleaning of all machinery and adhering to cleaning schedules.
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