Retail Catering Team Leader - LRI

Job overview

The Retail Catering Department are looking to recruit an enthusiastic person to join us as a Team Leader.

A good knowledge of Team Management within a Retail/ Hospital Catering environment including:-

Ability to lead, train and develop team members.

Good  IT skills to manage general day to day information inputting moving towards paperless system.

Main duties of the job

• Roster planning to ensuring the correct number of staff available to cover shifts  cover annual leave / sickness.
• Conducting Appraisals and Sickness Reviews
• Have knowledge of special dietary requirements.
• The ability to maintain controls as required in our Food Safety Management system.
• Excellent Customer Service Skills, liaising with colleagues, patients and their relatives within the Hospital environment.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Competent after training, in the use of industrial mechanical and manual catering and cleaning equipment and in the processes and able to train members of the team
• To have a good knowledge and understanding of the requirements of the service prior to and following training
• Maintaining the necessary skills and undertaking the relevant training to fulfil your role and your personal development.
• Planning and carrying out staff appraisals
• Responsible for; recording/reporting staff sickness and absences
• Planning and approving Annual Leave.
• Working flexibly within the Catering Team
• Ensuring that cleaning is carried out to the required frequencies and standards, in line with the Food safety and UHL policies and processes.
• Ensuring that waste is correctly segregated as required and that waste is stored/removed as Trust Waste Policy.
• Ensure that any mechanical defects, faulty or broken equipment identified is recorded and reported and taken out of use and labelled do not use.