Food Development Officer - Nottingham Catering

Contract Type: Fixed Term for 12 months

Working Hours: 22.5 hours per week, Monday, Wednesday and Thursday.

Worker Type: Hybrid Worker

Salary: The salary for this role is £35,235 per annum, pro rata for part-time (£21,421.72 actual salary)

Location: Loxley House, Station Street, Nottingham NG2 3NG

Are you someone with a passion for food, with experience in the catering industry who is looking for an exciting new challenge? At Nottingham Catering, we pride ourselves on delivering exceptional catering services to schools across the city and the wider D2N2 area. Working within the Education Services Directorate you will be part of a focused and dedicated team that values innovation, excellence, and customer satisfaction.

Join us in shaping the future of school catering in Nottingham.

Working for Nottingham City Council has great benefits. As well as competitive pay, great leave entitlement and access to a generous pension scheme, we strive to create an innovative, inclusive and progressive work culture where everyone is supported to do and be their very best.

In return, we are looking for people like you - people who are innovative, driven and committed to serving and improving Nottingham. So, if you are passionate about making a difference to the lives of those who live and work in our city, we want to hear from you.

About the Role

Nottingham Catering is seeking an effective, dynamic and passionate Food Development Officer to join our award-winning team to provide specialist support and drive improvements forward to develop our education and commercial catering services. Nottingham Catering takes pride in putting our children at the heart of what we do with school catering and in providing high-quality food and beverage offers in our commercial cafes.

As a key player in our team, you will ensure our catering services continue to thrive and grow, adapting to the ever-changing environment whilst maintaining excellent standards of service and ensuring the council delivers Best Value. The knowledge and expertise you bring to this role will help design menus and catering functions to meet the expectations of our customers.

About You

The ideal candidate will have:

1. Experience of providing catering services with a diverse customer environment.
2. Good standard of numeracy and literacy.
3. Intermediate Food Hygiene Certificate essential.
4. Detailed knowledge of current Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP) to ensure compliance with food hygiene regulation.
5. Experience of developing, reviewing and improving processes and systems.
6. Experience of working in a customer-focused service area and meeting the information needs of customers and colleagues.

This post is covered by the statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) (English Language Requirement for public sector workers) and therefore the ability to speak fluent English is an essential requirement for the role.

A DBS enhanced check for a regulated activity is required for this post.

Closing Date: Friday 13th December 2024

Please note there may be occasions where we close the advert before the closing date and we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

Interviews will be held: TBC

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