Job Description

Introduction

You will manage the Catering and Housekeeping departments, which will see you manage, train, and motivate the teams through supervision and appraisals, ensuring the necessary training is provided and undertaken.

As the Lead of Hotel Services, you will work across 2 of Elysium\'s sites, Three Valleys hospital in Keighley and Springwood Lodge in Guiseley. 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.

Ensure that any maintenance and servicing of catering and housekeeping equipment or the environment is reported to Facilities Manager/maintenance. Ensure departments meets both Elysium and EHO compliance.

You will be responsible for ensuring 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 require to cover chef at times when required to cover absences within the team.

You will prepare and manage the budgets for both departments at sites, 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.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Covering as Chef when required to absences.
• Provide a variety of different dietary requirements and recipes.
• Manage the delivery of the housekeeping service to ensure pre-determined standards of visual and biological cleanliness are continually achieved.
• Ensure all stock books, documentation, invoices are completed, correctly compiled, and updated.
• To establish and maintain reporting procedures to meet all regulatory and legislative requirements.
• Ensure staff in both departments understand their role, function, and key lines of enquiry of the CQC.
• Monitor and identify customer requirements by ensuring attendance at Patient Council by yourself or a senior member of staff.
• Supervise and monitor all goods received and ensure stock rotation is carried out.
• Ensure the Electronic Annual Leave system is used to ensure that annual leave is monitored and distributed fairly.

To be successful in this role, you\'ll need:

• Professional Qualifications relevant to the position
• Advanced food hygiene, management qualification and trainers\' certificate is desirable
• To be a member of a professional body is desirable.
• Able to confidently deliver presentations, reports, and budget.
• Knowledge and experience in ordering, stock control and budgeting
• Experience in supervising and training staff
• Knowledge of COSHH

What you will get:

• Annual salary of \xc2\xa330,000 + Benefits
• A car allowance of \xc2\xa34,100
• The equivalent of 33 days annual leave - plus your birthday off!
• Free meals and on-site parking
• Wellbeing support and activities
• Career development and training
• Pension contribution
• Life Assurance
• Enhanced Maternity Package

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.

The safety of our service users and colleagues is our priority and as such we encourage and support vaccination uptake as this remains the best line of defence against COVID-19.

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.

Elysium Healthcare