Catering Supervisor

Are you an experienced catering professional ready to take the next step and lead from the front?

We’re looking for a Catering Supervisor to join our busy Catering team at the Horton, helping us deliver a welcoming, efficient and high-quality food service for our staff, patients and visitors.

This is a hands-on Band 3 supervisory role where you’ll be at the heart of the day-to-day service. You’ll support and guide the catering team, maintain excellent standards of food safety and cleanliness, oversee stock and equipment, and make sure every service runs smoothly.

You’ll bring previous catering supervisory experience, strong customer service skills and a practical, team-focused approach. You’ll also need a catering qualification or relevant supervisory experience and food safety certification.

If you enjoy leading people, delivering great service and being part of a busy team where no two days are quite the same, we’d love to hear from you.

Advert code: EF15QP

As Our Catering Supervisor, You’ll

• Lead the day-to-day catering service, ensuring food is served safely, efficiently and to a consistently high standard.
• Support and develop the team, including staff briefings, training, coaching, appraisals and mandatory training.
• Maintain high standards of food safety, hygiene and cleanliness, including temperature checks, food rotation and HACCP requirements.
• Manage stock and supplies, placing orders, monitoring food storage and helping reduce waste.
• Coordinate staffing requirements, including annual leave, sickness absence and return-to-work discussions.
• Monitor catering equipment and report faults or breakdowns promptly.
• Support restaurant, hospitality and vending services, stepping into other areas of the department when needed.
• Undertake cashier and cashing-up duties in line with financial procedures.
• Complete stock, equipment and wastage records and provide weekly and monthly information as required.
• Work closely with colleagues across catering to deliver a professional, timely and customer-focused service

Week 1 Monday - Friday 08:00 - 16:00 or 09.30 - 17.30

Week 2 Monday - Wednesday 08:00 - 15:00 and Saturday and Sunday 08:00 - 17:30

in return for your hard work, we will offer you :-

• a competitive salary and additional pay for any unsocial hours that you work
• access to a number of local and national discounts- on holidays, insurance, shopping and a whole lot more
• an industry leading pension
• an environment where you can expect to be supported and developed

Care to join us...? Contact Diana Beere for more information via diana.beere@ouh.nhs.uk

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK's largest and most respected NHS teaching trusts, providing world-class healthcare across four hospitals: the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital, Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre and Horton General Hospital and over one hundred satellite sites. Find out more information here OUH at a Glance 2026/27

You'll become part of an organisation at the forefront of patient care, research, education and innovation. You'll have access to excellent learning and development opportunities, work alongside highly skilled multidisciplinary teams, and contribute to services that make a real difference.

Our commitment to Delivering Compassionate Excellence is at the heart of everything we do. Guided by our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence, we strive to create an environment where staff feel supported, valued and empowered to thrive. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel and the OneTeamOneOUH - LIVING OUR VALUES video.

We are committed to creating an inclusive, respectful and safe workplace for everyone. As signatories to the NHS Sexual Safety Charter, we have a zero-tolerance approach to inappropriate behaviour and are dedicated to fostering a culture where all colleagues feel welcomed, respected and able to be themselves. We pledge zero tolerance for inappropriate sexual behaviour and commit to the ten core principles.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Diana Beere Job title: Catering Manager Email address: diana.beere@ouh.nhs.uk Telephone number: 01295 229427

for further information or an informal visit please contact the Catering Manager Monday - Friday between 13:00 - 15:00

diana.beere@ouh.nhs.uk - 01295 229427