Senior Health & Food Safety Manager

Contract: Full Time, Permanent

Salary: £45,000 per annum

Hours: 40 per week

Our head offices are based in the beautiful village of Hook Norton near Banbury. Here you will find our teams of finance, HR, purchasing, marketing & creative that support all of our locations across the Thomas Franks family. There is ample parking space available when visiting.

We are looking for a Health & Safety and Food Safety Manager to join our team. Ideally you will be based near Newcastle upon Tyne or surrounding area.

The role will be responsible for:

• Completing safety management system audits.
• Managing health and safety and food safety standards for Thomas Franks Ltd.
• Ensuring that health and safety and food safety standards, policies, and procedures are maintained and updated in line with Company standards and legislation.
• Reviewing safety compliance audits, accidents/incidents and ensuring necessary actions or recommendations are implemented.
• Coaching and supporting Operations Managers and Location Managers in implementation of food and safety controls.
• Managing the Food and Safety Officers.
• Deputising for the Group Director of Health and Safety as required.

Location Support:

• Responsible for reviewing all food safety and health and safety audits on the safety compliance platform.
• Responsible for completion of annual safety management system audits as required by the agreed annual audit programme.
• Coordinating support to Operations Managers and Location teams where the annual safety management system audit score is low.
• Playing a supporting/mentoring role in reaching required food safety and health and safety standards.

Health and Safety and Food Safety Incidents:

• Ensuring all necessary reporting systems, procedures, controls, and standard operating systems are in place and utilised to record incidents.
• Triage health and safety incidents and accidents in the safety compliance platform and ensure all necessary action is taken by the operational team.
• Ensuring that any learning from incidents is disseminated to the business to reduce the likelihood of future incidents.
• Completing/supporting investigations of accidents/incidents as required at Location.
• Reporting RIDDOR incidents to the HSE.

Training and Development:

• Promoting training material within the business and supporting timely completion.
• Delivering the health and safety and food safety element of the Thomas Franks induction programme.

Health and Safety and Food Safety Standards:

• Providing a mentoring role regarding health and safety, food safety, and hygiene standards at location.
• Continuously reviewing and updating Thomas Franks Food Safety and Health and Safety practices and procedures in line with developments in legislation and best practice.

Communication:

• Ensuring that Operational teams are kept up to date and notified of any changes to policy, process, procedure or legislation relating to food safety and health and safety.
• Preparing and disseminating monthly reports for Regional Directors.
• Managing any food alerts on behalf of Thomas Franks and ensuring timely notification and removal of potentially contaminated products sensitively.

This job description is not exhaustive; therefore you may be required to carry out any other related tasks as directed by Senior Management.

Required Training and Qualifications:

• BSc Environmental Health or equivalent.

Benefits include:

• Wider wallet scheme (discounts at major retailers, restaurants, gyms etc).
• Volunteers leave - up to one day per year.
• Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoptive leave.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Recommend a friend bonus.
• Unrivalled individual training and development.
• Well established apprenticeship programme.
• Team & company social events.
• Employee assistance programme.
• Excellent career progression within a leading independent contract caterer.

All applicants must be able to demonstrate that they have the Right to Work in the UK to be considered for this role. An enhanced DBS, Identity & reference checks (covering the last five years) will form part of the selection process. As an organisation using the Disclosure Barring Service (DBS) Disclosure service to assess applicants' suitability for positions of trust, Thomas Franks Ltd complies fully with the DBS Code of Practice and undertakes to treat all applicants for positions fairly. We are committed to safeguarding the welfare of children and undertake not to discriminate unfairly against any subject of a Disclosure based on conviction or other information revealed. However, for any post in a school please be aware that any application is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and as such any criminal conviction, caution or bind-over must be declared.

We actively encourage applications from candidates from diverse backgrounds and continue to develop a culture of growth and inclusion and would like to invite applications from groups who are currently under-represented, because we believe greater diversity leads to exceptional results and provides a better working life.