Catering Manager in Market Drayton

This is a management job in an establishment.

Summary

The job holder will be responsible for the Food Services for the establishment including responsibility for the activities within all food areas (and staff mess). This is a non-operational job with line management responsibilities. This role is non-rotational.

Responsibilities, Activities and Duties

• Ensuring the provision of meals for prisoners and for the quality and quantity of meals served.
• Monitoring a safe working environment, e.g. requesting repairs to kitchen equipment, on-going testing and reporting operating faults on the computer-aided facilities management system.
• Achievement of Service Levels Indicators within the unit, verifying and signing off documentation as appropriate.
• Compliance with all Food Safety Management systems and Hygiene Assessments within the kitchen and associated areas.
• Undertaking Risk Assessments and responding to hazards as and when appropriate.
• Costing the menu requirements and management of the catering budget including the provision of cultural, health nutrition and special dietary needs.
• Act as point of contact for all external/internal stakeholders visiting the kitchen including Independent Monitoring Body (IMB) and His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Prisons (HMIP).
• Estimating, ordering and managing resources (generally food and ingredients to deliver the catering requirements of the establishment).
• Ensuring effective utilisation of those resources to maximise the reduction of waste.
• Maintenance of security standards in the kitchen area in line with Local Security Strategy (LSS) and National Security Framework (NSF).
• Prisoner workforce in the kitchens, ensuring that they are appropriately inducted, trained, supervised and paid and complete all documentation relating to prisoners where required.
• Implementation of national policy and/or contribution towards the development of local policy, procedures and practice for catering and ensures consistency across the unit in the application of policies and procedures affecting prisoners and staff.
• Collection, collation, analysis and acting on data concerning the catering function including feedback on the choice and quality of food provided and weekly individual menu choices from residential area.
• Training wing food handlers on hygiene standards.
• Carrying out kitchen inspections, audit preparation and documentation for audit purposes.
• Managing devolved budgets in accordance with the financial procedures outlined in the budget delegation.
• Managing all staff within their area, including staff performance, development and annual appraisal through to sickness absence management.
• Ensuring all HMPPS standards and Service Delivery Indicators (SDIs) are implemented and managed within the relevant work area.
• Ensuring all national and local policies and procedures are implemented and compliant (examples; NSF, LSS, Finance Manual).
• Attending as directed any relevant boards/meetings and actively contributing, either as chair or team member.
• Providing leadership and direction to supervisors and staff within their defined work area through briefings, building informal and formal relationships and effective communication.
• Producing relevant reports as required and ensuring all correspondence is replied to within agreed timescales.
• Liaising and forming good relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Contributing to the preparation of the prison contingency and emergency plans and ensuring implementation when required.
• Managing resources to deliver the activities within the defined work area and contributing to the mid-to-long term business planning process.
• Ensuring the defined work area and associated activities comply with Health and Safety legislation.
• Ensuring all risk assessments are undertaken and staff are made aware of their personal responsibility towards ensuring Health and Safety compliance.

Civil Service Success Profile Criteria Behaviours

• Working Together
• Managing a Quality Service
• Communicating and Influencing

Technical requirements

Must hold qualifications and competences of F&S Supervisor – Catering. In addition they must hold a Food Hygiene Level 4 Diploma or equivalent Level 4 award in HACCP. They are required to be familiar with applying all current health, safety and hygiene-related regulations that apply in a working kitchen environment and demonstrate previous competency at supervising or managing staff within a kitchen environment. Refresher training in Food Safety (HACCP) should be completed at 3 year intervals.

Hours of Work (Unsocial Hours) Allowances Additional Information

Working Arrangements & Further Information

The MoJ offers Hybrid Working arrangements where business need allows. This is an informal, non-contractual form of flexible working that blends working from your base location, different MoJ sites and / or from home (please be aware that this role can only be worked in the UK and not overseas). Some roles will not be suitable for Hybrid Working. Similarly, Hybrid Working will not suit everyone’s circumstances. Arrangements will be discussed and agreed with the successful candidate(s) and subject to regular review.

For nationally advertised roles, the successful candidate(s) will be appointed to a MoJ office location, which may include their nearest Justice Collaboration Centre or Justice Satellite Office. This will be discussed and agreed on the completion of pre-employment checks.

Some of MoJ’s terms and conditions of service are changing as part of Civil Service reform. The changes will apply to staff joining MoJ who are new to the Civil Service. Staff joining MoJ from other civil service employers will transfer onto the new MoJ terms if they are already on ‘modernised’ terms in their current post or onto ‘unmodernised’ MoJ terms if they are on ‘unmodernised’ terms at their current post. Details will be available if an offer is made.

Standard full time working hours are 37 hours per week excluding breaks which are unpaid. HMPPS welcomes part-time, flexible and job-sharing working patterns, where they meet the demands of the role and business needs. All applications for part-time, flexible and job-sharing working patterns will be considered in accordance with the HMPPS’ Flexible Working policy.

If you are a current NPS employee, this vacancy may be available on a Loan basis for up to 2 years. Applications are invited from suitable qualified staff. The Loan/Secondment is subject to the approval of the selected candidate’s Business Unit, which should be obtained before confirmation of appointment.

Bank, Public and Privilege Holidays

You are entitled to 9 days (66 hours 36 minutes) in recognition of bank, public and privilege holidays. These hours are added to your annual leave allowance. There is a requirement to work some public and bank holidays subject to your shift pattern and the operational needs of the establishment.

Pension

The Civil Service offers a choice of two pension schemes, giving you the flexibility to choose the pension that suits you best.

Work Life Balance

HMPPS is keen to encourage alternative working arrangements. Work life balance provides greater opportunities for staff to work more flexibly wherever managers and establishments can accommodate requests to do so. HMPPS offers flexible working subject to completion of a satisfactory probationary period and NVQ.

Season Ticket Advance

After two months’ service, you’ll be eligible to apply for a season ticket advance to purchase a quarterly or longer-period season ticket for travel between home and your place of work.

For any moves across the Civil Service may have implications on your ability to carry on claiming childcare vouchers.

Training

HMPPS is committed to staff development and offers a range of training and development opportunities, including areas such as Equality and Diversity, Dealing with Challenging Behaviour, Suicide Prevention and Anti-Bullying Programmes. There are opportunities to access promotion programmes and HMPPS provides a variety of training appropriate to individual posts. All staff receive security and diversity training and an individual induction programme into their new roles.

All candidates are subject to security and identity checks before taking up post. All external candidates are subject to 6 months probation. Internal candidates are subject to probation if they have not already served a probationary period within HMPPS. All staff are required to declare whether they are a member of a group or organisation which HMPPS considers to be racist.

Disability Confident Policy

MoJ are committed to providing everyone with the opportunity to demonstrate their skills, talent and abilities by making adjustments throughout all elements of the recruitment process and in the workplace. MoJ are able to offer an interview to disabled candidates who meet the minimum selection criteria, except in a limited number of campaigns. You will be able to request reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process within the application form. If you need additional help completing the application form, please contact the TBS Recruitment Enquiries Team.

Redeployment Interview Scheme

Civil Service departments are expected to explore redeployment opportunities before making an individual redundant. The MoJ is committed, as part of the Redeployment Interview Scheme, to providing opportunities to those who are “at risk of redundancy”. MoJ is able to offer an interview to eligible candidates who meet the minimum selection criteria, except in a limited number of campaigns. Candidates will not be eligible for the Redeployment Interview Scheme if they are applying on promotion.

Civil Service Nationality Rules

UK nationals, nationals of the Republic of Ireland, nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK, nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS), nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS), individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020, Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service.

Interview stage assessments

Interview Dates to be confirmed. Level of security checks required DBS Standard.

Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Artificial Intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.