Catering Unit Supervisor

**About us**

River Tees Hospital School is an integral part of the River Tees Multi-Academy Trust Family, where learning and wellbeing is at the centre of everything that we do. We work with the most vulnerable children, who have a complex range of physical and/or mental health difficulties, helping them to re-set their learning journey to achieve better outcomes and to improve their life chances in the short and longer term. It is recognised that each learner requires a unique setting and bespoke support programme to help them back into either mainstream education or a specialised educational pathway.

River Tees Hospital School creates an inclusive environment where staff strive to ensure all learners make accelerated academic progress whilst equally focusing on their personal development and wellbeing. We provide a range of specialist assessments, which allow us to develop an integrated plan that will work in harmony with the academic and emotional wellbeing strands.

River Tees Hospital School gives every learner the chance to be the best that they can be. This is achieved through the removal of barriers to learning, and the delivery of personalised educational programmes which lead to valuable and valid qualifications.

River Tees Hospital School is dedicated to providing high quality education through an innovative structure, so that vulnerable students have access to advanced and energising programmes of learning. We value the professional relationships between staff and learners, but equally ensure strong collaborative partnership work with parents, carers, trustees, external providers and the wider community, to ensure learners achieve their potential.

All learners are supported to develop lively and enquiring minds, whilst ensuring that they feel safe and valued in an inclusive environment. The ethos of inclusion is central to all of the work of our Trust and we strive to help our young people to achieve their aims and ambitions.

Adam Burns

Head of Hospital School

**Duties and Responsibilities**
- To undertake all catering activities within the Unit, ensuring smooth running of the service meets the individual needs of the school.
- To be responsible for supervision of Catering Team
- To work within a team to ensure Health & Safety and Hygiene Health & Safety in the workplace.
- Preparing and cooking food in accordance with food safety regulations and HACCP.
- Ordering quantities of food in line with meal numbers, menu planning and portion control.
- Management and control of food costs within the given budget
- The management and control of labour and other unit costs within the given budget
- Organisation and supervision of food service to include dining arrangements, special events and PD day catering.
- Induction and training of staff and keeping all relevant documentation and training records up to date.
- Ensuring all relevant clerical work is received in the office to meet deadlines
- Maintenance of records on cash collection in accordance with the requirements following standard operating procedures and safe contents register.
- To ensure continued improvement in customer satisfaction, encouraging healthy eating throughout the whole school day
- Reporting equipment breakdowns and maintenance requirements as requested and ensuring annual inspections are carried out.
- Setting up of morning breaks, tuck shops and additional services as requested.
- Participating in training and development activities as required and assisting with the training and development of colleagues.

The post holder may be required to undertake additional duties as could be reasonably required in exceptional or emergency situations.

The above duties and responsibilities cannot totally encompass or define all tasks which may be required of the incumbent. The outlined duties and responsibilities may, therefore, vary from time to time without materially changing either the character or level of responsibility; these factors are reflected in the post grade.

All employees are expected to demonstrate a commitment to the principles of equal rights both in relation to employment issues and service delivery and to adhere to the policies of the Trust in performance of their duties.

All employees are expected to respect all confidentialities and principles and practice of the Data Protection Act.

All post holders are required to comply with Health and Safety policies and legislation.

**Benefits**
- Our employee’s development and progression journeys are proof that we invest in our staff and provide comprehensive training and development opportunities.
- We use a collaborative approach to our appraisals process that aims to foster a culture of inclusive professional development within which staff feel valued and treated fairly
- We pride ourselves on our wellbeing offer to employees, ensuring our staff’s health and wellbeing is considered in every decision-making process.
- Better Health at Work Award Advocates with emp