Job summary
- Main area
- Estates and Facilities
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday)
- Job ref
- 350-TWSS7196345
- Employer
- Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Maghull Health Park
- Town
- Maghull
- Salary
- £53,755 - £60,504 0
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 10/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Senior Catering Service Lead
Band 8a
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Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust celebrates diversity and promotes equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect.
We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and also particularly encourage applications from ethnically diverse, disabled and LGBTQIA+ people that are under-represented in our workforce. Furthermore we welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces personnel as we recognise the benefits of the values, skills, training and experience that they bring to their work with us. We encourage all applicants to share their equality information with us.
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Job overview
To lead and manage all catering services across Merseycare NHS Foundation Trust. The Post holder will be responsible for all governance, Strategy, food safety, quality, and the operational management of all catering services. To drive the strategic direction & development of Trust catering services in line with care standards.
Main duties of the job
1. To lead and manage all catering services across Merseycare NHS Foundation Trust.
2. The Post holder will be responsible for all governance, Strategy, food safety, quality, and the
operational management of all catering services.
3. To drive the strategic direction & development of Trust catering services in line with care
standards.
4. The post holder will form part of the senior facilities management team and will be expected to
be involved in managing catering functions across the entire Mersey Care organisation.
5. The post holder will exercise a high degree of professional specialism in food and manage services
in line with the Trust Strategic plan; this should include all aspects of the service including front
of house services and 24-hour access to food solutions.
6. Be the Trust Catering Specialist and ambassador for catering.
7.Ensure, through sound financial management, that services are delivered within tight budgetary control and the requirements of the Trust in line with Government initiatives, Trust objectives and financial efficiency targets.
Working for our organisation
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information about this role please refer to the job description and person specification attached
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Educated to degree level or equivalent experience
- Higher diploma in catering management or equivalent experience
- Level 3 Certificate in Food Safety
- Level 2 award in identifying and controlling allergy risks
- Level 3 HACCP in catering and retail
Desirable criteria
- Level 4 Certificate in Food Safety
- Management of people qualification
- Experience of working in a mental health setting
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have regular contact with vulnerable people and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Julie Westwell
- Job title
- Head of Facilities
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07747473187
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