Catering Unit Supervisor
River Tees Hospital School, Middlesbrough, TS3 7EAThis job expired on 20 November 2024 – see similar jobs
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
20 November 2024 at 10:50am
Date listed
2 October 2024
Job details
Job role
- Catering, cleaning and site management
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £21,605-£22,345 per year
What skills and experience we're looking for
Desired Criteria
- NVQ Level 3- Management/ Trainer.
- Previous experience in school catering.
- Trainer skills
Essential Criteria
- Experience in catering environment.
- Menu planning and costing.
- Good communication skills.
- Control of kitchen costs.
- Team worker.
- Leadership skills.
- Self-motivation.
- Presentation skills.
NVQ Levels 1 &2 or equivalent in Catering.
- Basic Food Hygiene certificate.
- School catering experience.
- Moderate Lifting/Carrying.
- Good personal hygiene.
- Health and safety awareness.
- Discipline.
- Reliability.
- Flexibility in working arrangements.
What the school offers its staff
Benefits
- Our employee’s development and progression journeys are proof that we invest in our staff and provide comprehensive training and development opportunities.
- We use a collaborative approach to our appraisals process that aims to foster a culture of inclusive professional development within which staff feel valued and treated fairly
- We pride ourselves on our wellbeing offer to employees, ensuring our staff’s health and wellbeing is considered in every decision-making process.
- Better Health at Work Award Advocates with employees trained as Health Advocates to help our employees look after their own mental health and wellbeing.
- We have a flexible and generous approach to family appointments and events.
- A comprehensive induction package and ongoing training.
Further details about the role
About us
River Tees Hospital School is an integral part of the River Tees Multi-Academy Trust Family, where learning and wellbeing is at the centre of everything that we do. We work with the most vulnerable children, who have a complex range of physical and/or mental health difficulties, helping them to re-set their learning journey to achieve better outcomes and to improve their life chances in the short and longer term. It is recognised that each learner requires a unique setting and bespoke support programme to help them back into either mainstream education or a specialised educational pathway.
River Tees Hospital School creates an inclusive environment where staff strive to ensure all learners make accelerated academic progress whilst equally focusing on their personal development and wellbeing. We provide a range of specialist assessments, which allow us to develop an integrated plan that will work in harmony with the academic and emotional wellbeing strands.
River Tees Hospital School gives every learner the chance to be the best that they can be. This is achieved through the removal of barriers to learning, and the delivery of personalised educational programmes which lead to valuable and valid qualifications.
River Tees Hospital School is dedicated to providing high quality education through an innovative structure, so that vulnerable students have access to advanced and energising programmes of learning. We value the professional relationships between staff and learners, but equally ensure strong collaborative partnership work with parents, carers, trustees, external providers and the wider community, to ensure learners achieve their potential.
All learners are supported to develop lively and enquiring minds, whilst ensuring that they feel safe and valued in an inclusive environment. The ethos of inclusion is central to all of the work of our Trust and we strive to help our young people to achieve their aims and ambitions.
Adam Burns
Head of Hospital School
Job Description
Duties and Responsibilities
- To undertake all catering activities within the Unit, ensuring smooth running of the service meets the individual needs of the school.
- To be responsible for supervision of Catering Team
- To work within a team to ensure Health & Safety and Hygiene Health & Safety in the workplace.
- Preparing and cooking food in accordance with food safety regulations and HACCP.
- Ordering quantities of food in line with meal numbers, menu planning and portion control.
- Management and control of food costs within the given budget
- The management and control of labour and other unit costs within the given budget
- Organisation and supervision of food service to include dining arrangements, special events and PD day catering.
- Induction and training of staff and keeping all relevant documentation and training records up to date.
- Ensuring all relevant clerical work is received in the office to meet deadlines
- Maintenance of records on cash collection in accordance with the requirements following standard operating procedures and safe contents register.
- To ensure continued improvement in customer satisfaction, encouraging healthy eating throughout the whole school day
- Reporting equipment breakdowns and maintenance requirements as requested and ensuring annual inspections are carried out.
- Setting up of morning breaks, tuck shops and additional services as requested.
- Participating in training and development activities as required and assisting with the training and development of colleagues.
The post holder may be required to undertake additional duties as could be reasonably required in exceptional or emergency situations.
The above duties and responsibilities cannot totally encompass or define all tasks which may be required of the incumbent. The outlined duties and responsibilities may, therefore, vary from time to time without materially changing either the character or level of responsibility; these factors are reflected in the post grade.
All employees are expected to demonstrate a commitment to the principles of equal rights both in relation to employment issues and service delivery and to adhere to the policies of the Trust in performance of their duties.
All employees are expected to respect all confidentialities and principles and practice of the Data Protection Act.
All post holders are required to comply with Health and Safety policies and legislation.
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.
Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.
Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children
You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.
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About River Tees Hospital School
- School type
- Academy, ages 5 to 18
- School size
- 1 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 5 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- River Tees Hospital School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- paul.ashfield@rtmat.org.uk
- Phone number
- 01642 213799
River Tees Hospital School is an integral part of the River Tees Multi-Academy Trust Family, where learning and wellbeing is at the centre of everything that we do. We work with the most vulnerable children, who have a complex range of physical and/or mental health difficulties, helping them to re-set their learning journey to achieve better outcomes and to improve their life chances in the short and longer term. It is recognised that each learner requires a unique setting and bespoke support programme to help them back into either mainstream education or a specialised educational pathway.
River Tees Hospital School creates an inclusive environment where staff strive to ensure all learners make accelerated academic progress whilst equally focusing on their personal development and wellbeing. We provide a range of specialist assessments, which allow us to develop an integrated plan that will work in harmony with the academic and emotional wellbeing strands.
River Tees Hospital School gives every learner the chance to be the best that they can be. This is achieved through the removal of barriers to learning, and the delivery of personalised educational programmes which lead to valuable and valid qualifications.
River Tees Hospital School is dedicated to providing high quality education through an innovative structure, so that vulnerable students have access to advanced and energising programmes of learning. We value the professional relationships between staff and learners, but equally ensure strong collaborative partnership work with parents, carers, trustees, external providers and the wider community, to ensure learners achieve their potential.
All learners are supported to develop lively and enquiring minds, whilst ensuring that they feel safe and valued in an inclusive environment. The ethos of inclusion is central to all of the work of our Trust and we strive to help our young people to achieve their aims and ambitions.
Adam Burns
Head of Hospital School
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