Job summary
- Main area
- Facilities
- Grade
- Band 4
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- 34.87 hours per week (Part time - 06:00 - 14:00 & 13:00 - 21:00 over 7 days)
- Job ref
- 040-EA025-0326
- Employer
- Aneurin Bevan University Health Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Nevill Hall Hospital
- Town
- Abergavenny
- Salary
- £27,898 - £30,615 per annum, pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 16/03/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Catering Team Leader
Band 4
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Job overview
If you have previously applied for this position, please note changes have been made to the person specification. Please can you review these before applying.
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click “Apply now” to view in Trac.
Are you a passionate and motivated individual with experience in the catering industry? Do you have what it takes to lead a team and deliver exceptional food service? We are currently looking for a Catering Team Leader to join our Facilities Team. This position will be based at Nevill Hall Hospital in Abergavenny, you will also be required to support other sites within the Health Board.
The Catering Team Leader will support the Facilities Management team to deliver a safe, high quality, cost effective and efficient service consistently for patients, staff and visitors within Aneurin Bevan University Health Board. The Catering Team Leader is responsible for the effective day to day safe operation of the food production/delivery & staffing for catering services within hospital kitchens and restaurants for specific hospital sites.
Main duties of the job
- Lead and supervise catering staff, ensuring tasks are completed to agreed standards.
- Oversee safe preparation, cooking, and dispatch of meals.
- Ensure compliance with HACCP, food safety, and hygiene regulations.
- Monitor food quality, portion control, and presentation.
- Manage stock levels, ordering, and rotation.
- Conduct audits and support internal/external inspections.
- Handle complaints and special dietary requests with professionalism.
- Maintain accurate records and use digital systems for service delivery.
- Support staff training and development, fostering a positive team culture.
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply.
Working for our organisation
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board is a multi-award winning NHS organisation with a passion for caring.
The Health Board provides an exceptional workplace where you can feel trusted and valued. Whatever your speciality or stage in your career, we have opportunities for everyone to start, grow and build your career. The health board provides integrated acute, primary and community care serving a population of 650,000 and employing over 16,000 staff.
We offer a fantastic benefits package and extensive training and development opportunities with paid mandatory training, excellent in-house programmes, opportunities to complete recognised qualifications and professional career pathways including a range of management development programmes. We offer flexible working and promote a healthy work life balance, provide occupational health support and an ambitious plan for a Well-being Centre of Excellence to support you at work.
Our Clinical Futures strategy continues to enhance and promote care closer to home as well as high quality hospital care when needed. This includes the Grange University Hospital which provides specialist and critical care and is the newest addition to the clinical futures strategy which opened ahead of schedule in November 2020. Join us on our journey to pioneer new ways of working and deliver a world-class healthcare service fit for the future.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click “Apply now” to view in Trac.
Person specification
Qualifications and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- A relevant cookery qualification Level 2 or equivalent as well extensive experience working in a large-scale catering operation with extensive experience managing a catering team within a large-scale catering environment
- Level 3 Food Safety qualification
- Allergen Management qualification
- ILM Level 3 Management or equivalent qualification
Desirable criteria
- NVQ Level 3 Professional Cookery
- Level 4 Food Safety Certificate
- Level 3 HACCP for Catering Certificate
- Certificate in Health and Safety e.g. IOSH
- Manual Handling Certificate
Experience
Essential criteria
- Proven experience in large-scale catering operation as a chef, preferably in a hospital or care setting with the ability to meet deadlines
- Detailed knowledge of Food safety Legislation, HACCP principles, Allergen Management and COSHH
- Strong leadership abilities, capacity to work under pressure, effective communication skills, and capability to lead a team and organise workloads
Desirable criteria
- Previous experience working in a hospital catering setting
- Day to day supervision of a catering team with multiple members, including team meetings
- Knowledge of special dietary needs including gluten free, low fat, halal, vegan and vegetarian
Skills and Attributes
Essential criteria
- Effective interpersonal and communication skills (verbal, written and electronically)
- Ability to work collaboratively within multidisciplinary teams including managers and supervisors
- Strong multitasking and organisational skills to deliver a quality food service within time constraints to patients. staff and visitors
- Capability to instruct and manage a team, motivating staff to maintain the service and training compliance as well as inducting and mentoring staff
- Ability to prioritise workload and manage time effectively, working within time limits and under pressure
- Excellent attention to detail to ensure HACCP policies and procedures as well as standard recipes are implemented as necessary
- Proficient IT skills to include Microsoft office
- Self-motivated with a willingness to respond to unexpected changes and adopt a flexible approach to work
- Commitment to personal development
- Ability to deal with staff and customers sensitively and diplomatically acting in a polite and respectful manner
- Awareness of security and confidentiality
- Ability to travel between sites
Desirable criteria
- Welsh Language Skills are desirable levels 1 to 5 in understanding, speaking, reading, and writing in Welsh
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Welsh language skills are desirable
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- [email protected]
- Job title
- Facilities Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01873 732380
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