Focus Birmingham
Kitchen Supervisor.
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Kitchen Supervisor – 25 Hours per Week
Location: Harborne, Birmingham
Contract: Permanent
Hours: 25 hours per week
DBS: Enhanced
Role Overview
We are looking for an experienced and motivated Kitchen Supervisor to lead the day-to-day delivery of Focus Birmingham’s kitchen and catering service.
This is a hands-on role where you will lead and support our catering team to provide a safe, efficient and high-quality service for adults with complex needs attending our Day Centre.
You will oversee the daily operation of the kitchen, including allocating duties, managing rotas, coordinating staffing, managing meal choices and food orders, monitoring stock and deliveries, and ensuring catering resources are used effectively.
Working closely with colleagues across our services, you will help ensure the dietary, nutritional and individual needs of the people we support are safely and consistently met. This includes managing allergens and specialist dietary requirements, including texture-modified meals where required.
You will also play an important role in ensuring every mealtime is a positive, dignified and person-centred experience that supports choice and independence.
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Key Responsibilities
- Lead the day-to-day operation of the kitchen and catering service.
- Supervise, support and develop catering staff and volunteers.
- Manage rotas, allocate workloads and coordinate staffing requirements.
- Manage food orders, stock, deliveries and catering supplies.
- Ensure dietary, nutritional and allergen requirements are safely met.
- Maintain high standards of food quality, presentation and portion control.
- Ensure food hygiene, HACCP, COSHH, infection control and health and safety requirements are consistently followed.
- Maintain accurate food safety, temperature, cleaning and compliance records.
- Monitor kitchen standards, identify risks and implement improvements.
- Support Environmental Health inspections and other compliance activity.
- Promote a positive, inclusive and collaborative team culture.
About You
You will have:
- A Level 2 Food Safety Certificate.
- Experience working within a catering environment.
- Experience formally supervising or managing staff.
- Experience leading, motivating and developing a team.
- Experience managing rotas, workloads and day-to-day service delivery.
- Experience managing food orders, stock and supplies.
- Experience working with dietary requirements and allergen management.
- Good knowledge of food hygiene, HACCP and safe food handling.
- A good understanding of health and safety, COSHH and infection prevention and control.
- Good IT and record-keeping skills.
- Strong organisational, communication and problem-solving skills.
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Experience within health or social care, supporting people with disabilities or additional needs, or working with the IDDSI Framework and texture-modified diets would be an advantage.
If you are a confident, supportive leader who takes pride in maintaining high standards and wants to help create a positive mealtime experience for the people we support, we would love to hear from you.
To apply please send CV to gortons@focusbirmingham.org.uk
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