Jobs

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND ACCOUNTABILITIES

Visitor experience

Offer excellent customer service and ensure all members of the catering team do the same.

Delivering high standards and a consistently warm welcome within the catering department

Act as one of our duty manager team, responsible for ensuring a safe and smooth visitor operation, opening/closing and security of buildings, addressing issues and emergency procedure and providing relief cover, as required.

Catering operation

Plan, prepare, cook, and present food of the highest quality and standard.

Ensure that food is prepared and served in a timely manner.

Lead with menu development ensuring presentation of a high-quality food and drink offer.

Ensure compliance with health and safety, food hygiene, food allergen, licensing, and environmental health standards, completing all related record-keeping.

Accountable for cost-effective stock management, ordering, storage, and wastage control.

People management

Supervise the activities of a team of permanent and seasonal Visitor Service Assistants (VSAs), achieving excellent staff performance and motivation through effective induction, training, task-setting and coaching on front and back-of-house routines.

Prepare catering rotas and holiday allocation to meet business needs.

Work closely with specialist advisory colleagues, i.e. our Trust-wide Catering Development team

Instill a Health & safety and Environmental health culture throughout the catering operation

Finance Management

Share responsibility for achieving the catering budget together with the F& B Manager

Monitor commercial performance and adjust activities to capitalize on sales opportunities and run a cost-effective catering operation.

Supervise daily café till operations and perform end-of-day income reconciliation

Assist the F&B Manager with menu costing and stock-taking.

You may have delegated tasks within other departments, and you will understand and help deliver the overall property business plan

This role is one for which the duties, responsibilities or accountabilities of the role require you to undertake a criminal records check, specifically a Standard Disclosure.

Performance indicators and targets

Weekly, monthly and annual sales and cost of sales targets

Food compliance standards and record-keeping

Visitor enjoyment reviews and ratings from visitor surveys and visitor feedback

Tools / equipment / systems

Access to laptop and relevant online people management, training, financial monitoring and stock ordering systems, including NTS intranet and Microsoft 365.

EPOS tills and chip and pin machines.

Fully equipped commercial catering kitchens.

Application Deadline: Sunday 25/08/2024