Catering Supervisor

To find a more detailed list of your day-to-day responsibilities, please refer to the key roles and accountabilities section on our Job Description. You will support in many aspects, to name a few:

• Maintain agreed standards for all café services.
• Supervise staff in serving food, beverages, and confectionery.
• Ensure food safety, hygiene, and compliance with Health & Safety, COSHH, Food Hygiene, Consumer and Equality laws, including allergen control.
• Oversee daily temperature checks and maintain the Safe Food Better Business diary.
• Deliver and uphold barista coffee brand standards.
• Work with the Catering Manager and Chef to ensure high-quality food production, correct portioning, recipe compliance, and supplier use.
• Support the Chef in ensuring food is stored and sold safely.
• Manage stock levels, place orders, oversee deliveries, and report shortages or quality issues.
• Handle cash, meal cards, banking, and daily sales reporting; update tills and report issues.
• Supervise cleaning of kitchen, counters, tables, and restaurant areas; ensure adherence to cleaning rotas.
• Coordinate washing and storage of equipment, crockery, and cutlery.
• Manage food and drink provision for buffets.
  
  To become a Catering Supervisor in our Catering department, we need someone who is experienced, patient and has the ability to work well in a team.
The successful candidate will have the chance to acquire new skills and develop their abilities in a wide range of activities. We have a variety of students from the surrounding area; we are a welcoming and inclusive community that champions diversity and equality across our college. Our departments collaborate to establish and uphold the inclusive HoW culture, we keep this in mind as we manage interactions with the public, fellow employees, and nearby schools. Although this position is based at our Worcester campus, all applicants must be prepared to travel to our other campuses or surrounding areas as required.

Heart of Worcestershire College, the county's largest further education institution, offers a diverse range of academic, vocational, and community courses throughout its campuses. In all we do, our principles of diversity, integrity, partnership, and trust come through, enabling us to offer timely and knowledgeable services both within and outside of our immediate neighbourhood. By 2030, we also intend to be 90% green! Our goal is to advance, innovate, and inspire. We're looking for people who want to come along for the journey because our growth will be your growth., Every person we hire has a different mix of experiences, cultures, and identities, as well as a unique background and physical make-up. Together, we strengthen HoW. The College is striving to attract, develop and retain the very best people by offering a motivating and inclusive workplace in which talent is truly recognised. We want you to know that HoW is an equal opportunity employer as you are probably applying for or considering applying for a job with us if you are reading this. This College expects everyone to share its commitment to promoting and protecting children, young people, and vulnerable adults' welfare and equality of opportunity. For us, this means that we always work to be as inclusive as possible in all areas of employment and that we will not allow any form of discrimination.

A career with us entails much more than a pay cheque, because we know our employees are our most valuable resource. You can look forward to the following perks with us.
• Confidential Employee Assistance Programme (available 24/7, 365 days a year); giving access to free confidential counselling
• Regular Continuing Professional Development
• Opportunity to gain further qualifications and enhance professional development through our Awards process
• Generous holiday allowance
• Agile and Flexible working (Dependent upon role)
• Employee discounts & benefits package including high street and travel discounts
• Fantastic progression opportunities
• A mentor to support you in your new role
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Free onsite parking (Certain Campuses only)
• Opportunities of volunteering within local community and charities