Citywide Services Area Supervisor (cleaning and catering) - Salford Council

Employer: Salford Council

Salary: £37,938-£40,476

Location: Turnpike House, 631 Eccles New Road, Salford, M50 1SW

Contract: Permanent

Working Pattern: Full Time

Hours: 36 hours per week

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We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced individual to join our team as Area Supervisor Cleaning & Catering. This is a varied and fast-paced role, where no two days are the same.

The role will primarily focus on providing efficient and effective service across the varied Citywide’s cleaning and catering contracts and developing your team. Therefore, we need someone who is a skilled communicator, and able to collaborate with staff, children, headteachers, business managers and building managers in a variety of ways.

To succeed in this role, you will need to have experience in the catering industry (school catering would be beneficial), experience in the cleaning industry, supervising staff, training individuals of varied levels of ability, supervise staff, have excellent communication skills, good IT skills, be fair and objective, and have good knowledge of Health & Safety Legislation and Food Safety Legislation.

We are extremely interested in hearing from individual with experience in the day-to-day management of contracts, with a proven history in managing an efficient and effective services across contracts and supervising complex teams.

About Citywide Services:

Citywide Services is part of Salford City Council’s Place Directorate. We have been providing Catering Services in nurseries and schools across Greater Manchester since 1990. We are constantly striving to achieve the highest quality, healthiest, and nutritionally balanced meals to the 12,000 children we serve every school day.

At Citywide Services we aim to provide Salford living wage-paid, reliable jobs for our community, where every team member is given the skills and training to develop. Once a team member is on board with us, we work hard to encourage them to stay, as we recognise that our people are our most valuable resource.

We aim to create a great teamwork environment in which the opinions of all are sought and valued and to grow our future talent from within, with continued development and progression opportunities. Our training and development build upon the talents of our team by investing in their training. This ensures they are given all the necessary skills to deliver excellence. Our training includes nationally recognised catering qualifications, safeguarding, food hygiene, manual handling, COSHH training, customer service, and many more. Over the last two years, we are immensely proud to have provided over thirty of our team members with apprentice opportunities to gain Chef Production qualifications, with many of our apprentices having gone on to achieve career promotions within Citywide.

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