Job overview

Adopting a flexible approach and supporting the Facilities Manager to deliver a high quality professional service. The goal is to provide a safe, high quality diverse catering service, offering a range of food delivery options to inpatients, visitors and staff whilst ensuring Trust and departmental policies are adhered to. The post-holder will manage the wider Catering team and support when required, issues relating to other services within the Facilities team. There is an expectation to provide support to Facilities management colleagues during periods of absence and to deputies for the Facilities Manager (Catering).

The selection process will include a written test and a PowerPoint presentation on “How would I Ensure Compliance with NHS Food Standards and Allergen Regulations.”

Main duties of the job

For further information, please see the attached trust job description and person specification for a full list of duties and responsibilities.

Working for our organisation

We provide emergency and non-emergency services to the residents of East Surrey, North-East West Sussex, and South Croydon, including the major towns of Crawley, Horsham, Reigate and Redhill; a community of over 535,000 people. We provide acute and complex services and a range of outpatient, diagnostic services whilst Crawley Hospital and Horsham in West Sussex and Caterham Dene Hospital and Oxted Health Centre in Surrey provide less complex planned services. In 2019 the Care Quality Commission (CQC) rated our services as ‘Outstanding’ and we are one of the best performing Trusts in England:

• Winners of Health Service Journal Acute Trust of the year award 2021
• National Patient Safety Awards winner and strive to be a beacon for safety in all that we do
• We are in the top 20% nationally for staff recommending the Trust as a place to work or receive treatment
• Our staff rate us the best in the country among comparable acute trusts when asked if they would recommend the Trust as a place to work and when asked whether care of patients is the organisation’s top priority
• Our workforce are amongst the most motivated in the country; we achieved the top acute hospital score in the country for staff engagement in the last national staff survey