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Catering Manager

Join our team

Closing Date:  11th June 2025
Location: Multi-site working across both sites at Erdington and Selly Park
Hours: 37.5 hours per week, flexibility required (earliest start at 7 am, latest finish at 7 pm, with a rotation pattern of 5 days on, 2 days off; generally, Monday – Friday, weekend work may be required)
Salary: circa £37,000

 

Are you an experienced Catering Manager and chef? Would you like to work for an organisation focused on ensuring
food choice and quality for our service users?

If you are looking for a new challenge, Birmingham Hospice has the perfect opportunity for you to join our Facilities Team.

Managing a unified catering service across our Erdington and Selly Park sites, you will ensure a coordinated and compliant service. As part of the role you will plan, produce, and serve high-quality, freshly prepared, and nutritious food while adhering to food safety standards, including specific compliance with allergens, team training and overall safety standards.

 You must have:

  • Proven experience in managing budgets, costing, income, and expenditure (this is essential).
  • Flexibility to work various shifts, including weekends and holidays.
  • Excellent communication, organisation, and time management skills.
  • Experience in conducting audits and ensuring compliance.
  • Proven line management experience.
  • Level 3 Food Hygiene certification as a minimum.
  • A positive and professional attitude.

In return, we offer an attractive salary, training and the opportunity to contribute to food safety and quality within an organisation valued by its community. Individuals joining the charity from the NHS or another hospice will have their continuous previous service with any NHS employer recognised in respect of pension provision and annual leave.

This is a fantastic opportunity to work with a team of committed individuals and to develop the service. We consider people development as a priority.

For an informal chat, please contact Sandra Humphries, Visitor and Volunteer Experience Manager at sandra.humphries@birminghamhospice.org.uk.

If there are high volumes of applications, we reserve the right to bring the closing date forward. No recruitment agencies please. 

For more information please read the job description.

“After I saw the care my dad received at the hospice, I knew I wanted to work there.”

Barbara Bennett, a Healthcare Assistant at Birmingham Hospice’s Erdington site, was inspired to join the hospice after seeing the expert palliative care her dad, Frederick, received there.

Having worked in healthcare for 30 years, Barbara decided it was time she went into palliative and end of life care after helping to care for her father when he was diagnosed with heart failure, kidney failure and dementia.

Read Barbara’s story

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