Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust
Head of Catering
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Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) is seeking an ambitious, innovative and values-driven Head of Catering to lead and transform catering services across our organisation.
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced catering professional to shape high-quality food services that support patient recovery, staff wellbeing and excellent visitor experience across our hospital and community sites.
As Head of Catering, you will:
- Provide strategic and operational leadership for all catering services
- Ensure delivery of safe, nutritious, cost-effective and sustainable food services that meet the highest standards of quality, compliance and patient satisfaction
- Lead large multidisciplinary teams
- Manage significant budgets and contracts
- Play a key role in delivering the Trust’s wider estates and facilities ambitions
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The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.
As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we’re always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care, appreciate and inspire – to join our team.
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In return, we can offer you:
- A job role with purpose and flexibility
- The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction
- Access to a competitive benefits package, including:
- Fantastic annual leave allowance
- Flexible working opportunities
- Protected hours for health and wellbeing activities
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For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Howard Cartledge
- Job title: Head of Catering
- Email address: howard.cartledge@nca.nhs.uk
- Telephone number: 0161 206 1234
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