Join The Farndon Unit in Newark on Trent as the Catering and Housekeeping Lead. You will provide leadership and guidance as you ensure the departments are COSHH registered and will work alongside the Health and Safety Officer to undertake all risk assessments.
As the Catering and Housekeeping Lead you will be responsible for the kitchen team and housekeeping team. You will ensure all relevant department documentation is completed in line with policy, manage rota's, produce menus to meet a varied healthy balanced diet to meet the nutritional needs of service users and complete monthly department audits to ensure high standards are maintained. You will also be required to cover chef at times.
You will prepare and manage the budgets for both departments at site, ensuring that all costs remain within the annual agreed budget and any additional overspend is reported to the Hospital Directors.
As a senior member of the team, you will be responsible for supporting the teams to maintain high standards of their day-to-day duties, from maintaining a safe and clean space to creating warm and nutritional meals for staff, service users and visitors. As a Catering and Housekeeping Lead you will be:
To be successful in this role, you'll need:
Where you will be working:
Location: The Farndon Unit, Farndon Road, Newark, Nottinghamshire, NG24 4SW
You will be working at the Farndon Unit, a purpose-built low secure hospital which offers personalised assessment and recovery-based treatment pathways, including a trauma specific pathway, for women with complex care needs.
You will join the multidisciplinary team in providing specialist care for people with a diagnosis of severe and enduring mental illness and/or personality disorder and/or mild learning disability.
The combination of general low secure wards and a recovery ward area (also within the low secure perimeter) provide a seamless internal care pathway supporting and empowering recovery and rehabilitation.
What you will get:
There are also a range of other benefits including retail discounts and special offers and much more.
About your next employer
You will be working for an established, stable and agile company with over 8,000 employees and a unique approach to the delivery of care. With a network of over 90 services across England and Wales covering Mental Health, Neurological, Learning Disabilities & Autism, Children & Education, there is opportunity for you to grow and move.
Elysium Healthcare is part of Ramsay Health Care with a global network that extends across 10 countries and employs over 86,000 people globally.
Elysium Healthcare follows safer recruitment of staff for all appointments. It is a requirement that all staff understand it is each person's individual responsibility and are committed to promoting and safeguarding the welfare of service users. Candidates will be subject to an Enhanced DBS disclosure.