Duration: 6 month, Fixed Term Contract
Location: Dual Sites – Selly Park and Erdington
Hours: 15 hours per week (Monday to Friday)
Salary: £9,945 (£24,864 full time equivalent)
Closing Date: Sunday 3 March 2026
Catering Administrator (Fixed Term Contract)
Bring Your Skills to Our Caring Catering Team
Make a difference every day
Join our Catering Team and help us deliver excellent, safe, and well‑organised catering services across Birmingham Hospice. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys administration, thrives on accuracy, and loves keeping busy in a supportive environment.
About the Role
As our Catering Administrator, you will provide vital administrative support to the Catering Manager and wider Catering Team. You will play a key role in keeping our two hospice sites and external café running smoothly.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Supporting day‑to‑day catering operations across all locations
- Ordering provisions and equipment from external suppliers and raising accurate purchase orders
Managing staff rotas and ensuring adequate cover across sites - Preparing payroll forms for approval
Maintaining accurate audit, Health & Safety, and compliance records
Producing food labels that meet environmental health regulations - Handling order forms and recharging costs for internal and external buffet requests
General administrative support such as filing and photocopying across all catering areas
This is a varied, hands‑on admin role where no two days are the same.
What We’re Looking For
- Educated to A‑Level / NVQ Level 3 (or equivalent)
- Strong IT skills, including Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint
- Experienced administrator (ideally in a similar administrative role) with excellent accuracy and attention to detail
- Ability to organise workloads and manage deadlines
- Strong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to use initiative
- A flexible and supportive team player
Why Join Birmingham Hospice?
Working with us means more than just a job – it’s a chance to make a real difference. Here’s what we offer:
- Generous holiday entitlement
- Comprehensive training and development opportunities to grow your career.
- Wellbeing programmes to support your health and happiness.
- A supportive, passionate team that values kindness and collaboration.
- The pride of working for a respected charity that truly changes lives.
If this sounds like the perfect role for you, we’d love to hear from you!
How to Apply
If you’re organised, proactive and passionate about supporting high‑quality services, we’d love to hear from you.
For an informal chat, email Sandra Humphries at: sandra.humphries@birminghamhospice.org.uk
For more information, please read the job description.
"The team and colleagues are all very supportive and we really see the difference we can make."
Sally, People Team Manager at Birmingham Hospice, has worked here for seven years.
“I love my job as it’s very varied – one day I can be meeting our new starters at our induction day, another day I can be supporting a wellbeing event and then on another day I can be testing our HR and Payroll system as part of an upgrade. There are lots of opportunities to get involved.
“The team and colleagues are all very supportive and we really see the difference we can make in the People Team to our colleagues, volunteers and the patients we support.”
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
The hospice is committed to developing a dynamic and diverse team, representative of the communities it serves. We ask you, therefore, to complete the Equal Opportunities monitoring form to help us in this aim.
We value each person as an individual – whether they are colleagues, patients, family members, carers or supporters, every person matters. We embrace diversity of culture, background and environment knowing it enriches our workplace and our relationships with our local communities. We are committed to building a culture of inclusion and belonging. We would love to hear from you, about what makes you uniquely you and how this opportunity will support you to succeed.
Our Values
Our values are at the heart of everything we do as we continue in our mission to enable more people from all communities to access the care of their choice at the end of life.
Kindness
Togetherness
Positivity
Openness
Respect
Innovation