Mobile Catering Supervisor

Package Description

up to £20,000pa₊ great benefits (FTE £23,000pa)

Location: Blackpool and the surrounding area

Permanent

Work Pattern – 35hrs pw Monday to Friday (to include travelling time) 7am -3pm **term time only** 40 weeks per year

We also offer Sodexo Discounts site promoting discounted mobile phone tariffs, savings across restaurant chains and days out, where you and your family can save money on everything from your weekly food shop to the latest cinema blockbuster and much more!

We're all about building a workplace for the future, we believe in equal opportunities, and we celebrate diversity. We’re an inclusive workplace, where everyone is welcome, everyone can be natural, and be the best versions of themselves. We recognise that we’re on a journey with regards to diversity and inclusion and would therefore welcome applications for candidates from underrepresented backgrounds.

Job Introduction

Is quality of life a priority for you? Would working term time only suit you? Our Sodexo Schools segment have an exciting brand-new opportunity for an enthusiastic Mobile Catering Supervisor to join our team within Bright Futures Educational Trust. You will work within the Blackpool and surrounding area providing cover relief as we mobilise and run our new contract.

This is a great opportunity to work in a rewarding school environment whilst being part of a world leading food and facilities management company; here we can offer you unrivalled opportunities for career progression. If the flexibility of a term time only role would suit you, this could be your perfect role!

This position will suit an experienced Chef Manager with a passion for food, who is skilled in food delivery and customer experience, is good at situational decision making and has a good eye for detail. You will thrive on a challenge and have strong leadership skills, most importantly being adaptable to a changing environment. We need an excellent communicator with a passion for innovation who loves a busy varied role where no 2 days will be the same.

This role is subject to Safer Recruitment checks and the successful applicant will be required to complete a DBS.

Main Responsibilities

• To mobilise and run the BFET portfolio, by covering relief, and ensure continual improvement of brand standards and consistency within the Trust
• Support the schools during catering events and functions to ensure Sodexo Hospitality offers exceed customer expectations whilst maintaining commercial viability
• Increase sales by driving uptake in meals and enhance customer experience in order to meet both client and commercial expectations whilst maintaining strict budgetary control in line with client and Sodexo expectations
• To ensure that all statutory and company regulations and policies relating to Allergens, food hygiene, health, safety and fire are enforced
• Actively innovate in terms of food presentation and engage in partnered curriculum-based food activity

The Ideal Candidate

• Previous catering experience with a great passion for food and team engagement
• Strong level of literacy and numeracy
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to communicate effectively with customers, clients, and staff at all levels
• Intermediate Food Hygiene Certificate, 706/2 or NVQ2 chef qualification, or equivalent
• Good time management and organizational skills, ability to work well under pressure
• Computer literacy
• Ability to achieve and set standards and operate to performance criteria, with particular regard to hygiene
• Ability to work effectively as part of and in the development of a team with a flexible approach to role and to successfully implement change 
• Car driver, own car essential

Sodexo and our clients are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and adults within a regulated activity. This role will require applicants to undergo screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) and/ or Disclosure Scotland.

About The Company

In the UK and Ireland, Sodexo employs around 30,000 people, and partners with clients in many sectors across business and industry; schools and universities; sports and leisure; energy and resources; government and agencies; healthcare; justice and defence.

Sodexo’s connected; people-centric approach brings together a diverse range of expertise. The breadth of services it offers ranges from food and hospitality; cleaning; reception; concierge (Circles); security; property management and technical services through to data driven workplace strategy and design (Wx); employee engagement and recognition services (Sodexo Engage) and personal home services through Prestige Nursing + Care and the Good Care Group.

Vital Spaces is Sodexo’s value proposition that puts people at the heart of everything we do, bringing together services and solutions and focusing on the productivity and wellbeing of people wherever they are.

Sodexo is committed to being an inclusive employer; we welcome and encourage applications from people with a diverse variety of experiences, backgrounds and identities.

We’re a Disability Confident Leader employer. We’re committed to changing attitudes towards disability, and making sure disabled people have the chance to fulfil their aspirations.

We are building on our support to the Armed Forces community through the development of specific pathways within our recruitment process to  support ex-forces personnel and reservists, those applying for jobs with us who meet the ideal candidate criteria for the role advertised are guaranteed to progress to the selection process