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Job overview

An exciting opportunity to join our superb catering team here at MTW as Deputy Catering Manager.

This role requires you to have a good understanding of the technical nature of food production, as well as quality checks and people management. As a key member of the Catering management team, the post holder will contribute to all catering matters, ensuring a quality service that ensures that catering provision is appropriate, effective, and responsive.

This is a full time position on a 12 month fixed term contract working Monday to Friday although a level of flexibility will be required due to operational pressures.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will develop and manage the delivery of an excellent catering service. To be responsible for all staff undertaking any and all activities within catering services, ensuring all staff are motivated, trained and equipped to complete their specific job tasks.

The Deputy Catering Manager will order, prepare, cook, serve and deliver a range of fresh, chilled or frozen quality meals for all of our patients, staff and hospitality service to the highest standards in line with the department quality control guidelines and food and hygiene standards (EHO visits).  The post holder will have a good knowledge of special and therapeutic diets as well as religious, ethnic, allergens and other dietary needs. 

The Deputy Catering Manager will, together with the Catering Manager support in planning and costing of menus and ordering supplies, provide technical advice, guidance, recruitment and training to all catering staff, assist with and respond to patient queries, and minimise any that may lead to complaints and escalate as appropriate. 

Working for our organisation

In this year's NHS staff survey, our employees voted to recommend us as an employer, positioning us as the second most recommended  NHS Trust in the South East.

Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust is a large acute hospital Trust in the county of Kent.

The Trust provides a full range of general hospital services and some areas of specialist complex care to around 760,000 people living in the south part of West Kent and the north part of East Sussex.

The Trust’s core catchment areas are Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells and their surrounding boroughs. We work from two main clinical sites: Maidstone Hospital and Tunbridge Wells Hospital at Pembury. Tunbridge Wells Hospital opened in 2011 and provides single rooms with en-suites for all in-patients – the first of its kind in the country.

We employ more than 7,000 full and part-time staff in a huge range of clinical and non-clinical roles across both of our hospital sites.

Would you like to work flexibly? In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.

Please contact the Recruiting Manager for an informal discussion should you have any queries relating to the role for which you are applying. Shortlisted candidates will be contacted via an email as soon as possible after the closing date. Should you receive an invitation to attend interview, please confirm or decline your attendance. Interview slots will then be allocated on a first come first serve basis.

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