Food Service Manager, Central Clinical Services

Mō tēnei tūranga mahi | About this role

Leadership required and an exciting role like this doesn’t come around often!

Does the idea of working in a busy environment where you get to fully utilise your experience and skills in management and food services appeal to you? If so, then we are looking for you. 

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced individual to manage the Food Services contract at Counties Manukau District, ensuring delivery of safe, high quality food that meets the needs of patients, staff and visitors. Supporting efficiency, sustainability and improved health outcomes and experiences for patients by delivering optimum food quality and choice.

You will provide leadership and guidance to ensure that food quality, safety, legislative requirements and various key performance indicators are met.

Key responsibilities include:

• Overseeing the delivery of food service across all District food service operations with a focus on safe food, food quality and service quality
• Ensuring nutritional needs are balanced and contribute to the overall health and wellbeing of hospital patients, visitors and staff
• Liaising between hospital wards and departments, including clinical dietetics and speech language therapy and with suppliers regarding service requests and improvements
• Liaising with the Contract Manager (Health New Zealand Procurement) and representatives of other participating Districts to ensure the contractual requirements of the Food Service Agreement (FSA) are met
• Management of contractor performance via audits and KPIs
• Support health equity and culturally appropriate food services through service plans and delivery, Counties Manukau policies, procedures and business strategies

The ideal candidate would preferably be a registered dietitian or have extensive experience in a large food service operation along with a background in nutrition. You will be:

• A strong leader with excellent communication skills
• Highly motivated and results orientated
• Able to work under pressure and prioritise work appropriately to lead the contracting team to achieve key objectives and targets

This is a full time, Monday to Friday position based at Middlemore Hospital with some travel to satellite sites required.

If you are looking for a worthwhile challenge and want to work in an innovative and exciting team and you share the Counties Manukau team values of Excellent, Valuing Everyone, Kind, and Together and want to join us on a journey of achieving health equity for our community, apply now!

In return, you will be part of a busy, unique team environment that provides good in-house opportunities and a great team environment.

Come and join a team where you will feel valued for making a difference.

Apply online today at www.countieshealthjobs.com. or more information please contact Tangi Namulauulu in the Recruitment Centre via email Tangi.namulauulu@middlemore.co.nz or to review the position description please “click here”

Closing Date: 22nd September 2024

Position Number: CMH202414143

At Counties Manukau Health people and their lives matter to us. We are a values based and inclusive organisation that is committed to delivering the best health outcomes for our community. To help us achieve this we need a workforce that reflects the population we serve. We strongly encourage applications from all backgrounds who share our values and have a passion to work in our community and would greatly value seeing applicants from our Maaori and Pacific communities. We are also committed to our Disability Strategy, which focuses on people with disabilities; they are our patients, whaanau, community and our staff - all carefully considered in our action plan. Together we will improve the accessibility needs for everyone who has a disability. Our values are Valuing Everyone- Whakawhanaungatanga , Kind –Manaakitanga, Together –Kotahitanga, Excellent- Rangatiratanga. If these are your values too, then join us