Role: Catering Manager
Department: JES – Joint Estate Services
Scale: SO1 (Indicative)
Salary: £37,020 - £39,276
Location: Melton 2, Multi-Site Across The Force
Hours: 37 Hours Per Week (Full-time) Monday to Friday
Flexibility Requirement: Candidates must be open to flexible daily working hours to meet the operational needs of the department. This may include adjusting start and finish times, providing cover during peak periods, or supporting colleagues during absences. Flexibility is essential to ensure consistent service delivery and effective team collaboration.
Contract: Permanent
Overall Purpose of the role: To lead the force catering provision, providing the most efficient service to achieve best value for money, whilst ensuring the provision of food, beverages and event catering is of the highest standard. To ensure staffing levels are maintained to provide an efficient and effective service, and ensure compliance with catering legislation and the organisation of training within the Catering Team.
Is responsible for ensuring the financial targets and KPIs of the Catering Service, set by the Estates Facilities Manager, are effectively achieved.
Key Responsibilities:
- Ensures the catering business is run in a professional and commercially viable way, by effectively minimising costs and maximising sales, whilst delivering a high-quality catering experience. In doing so, manages and monitors the catering budgets and achieves financial targets set by the Estates Facilities Manager (in consultation with the Estates Director) for the daily operation and delivery of the catering service at each of the force venues.
- Plans, operates and manages the day-to-day operation of the catering service at all sites. Liaises with suppliers and contractors to ensure contracts are successfully met and adhered to. Is responsible for ensuring that all external site visitors (suppliers and contractors) hold HP vetting clearance. Ensures SLAs are maintained and raises complaints / concerns relating to suppliers / contractors directly with relevant organisation.
- Responsible for the continual improvement of the catering provision. Keeps up to date on industry trends, innovations and offers suggestions for special events and theme days, and performance improvement opportunities to the Estates Facilities Manager, with associated costings, time frames and anticipated results.
- Responsibility to scope the procurement of the business requirements. Prepares and provides relevant business cases and recommendations (based on gathered evidence) to the Estates Facilities Manager.
- Establishes best practice in accordance with the Health and Safety at Work Act etc and works in conjunction with the JES SLT to organise and accommodate monthly, quarterly and annual inspections, servicing and deep cleaning.
- Manages Catering Supervisors to deliver profitability of the service and the coordination of stock and waste recording through regular monitoring.
- Through guidance from the Estates Facilities Manager, manages a quality, modern vending solution at pre-determined locations within the force, ensuring an effective model to support 24/7 policing, in line with agreed branding schemes.
- Keeps up to date with legislative changes within the catering industry and ensures this information is disseminated within each catering team, and updates provided to the Estates Facilities Manager, so that associated policies and procedures can be reviewed and amended, as required
- The post holder will be expected to exercise their judgement in making a range of day-to-day decisions including operational priorities, resources, and staffing.
- Ensure all staff and catering facilities adhere to Food, Hygiene and Health & Safety Legislation.
For further information relating to the role and tasks of this position please refer to the attached role requirement.
What the role requires:
- Excellent organisational skills
- industry experience in transformational change of a catering service and ‘innovative mind-set’
- Food Hygiene advanced Level certificate
- Good understanding of food legislation.
- Managing a personal development process for team members.
- Experience of planning and costing menus, initiating value for money initiatives and managing budgets.
- Has the ability to inspire confidence and respect.
- Has access to a vehicle and able to travel the force area
- Able to prepare well balanced reports in a concise, logical and timely manner.
- Experience of working in a confidential environment.
- Ability to work with minimum supervision when required.
- Carries out tasks in an accurate and methodical manner with an eye for detail.
- Ability to work as part of a team.
- Have access to a vehicle and able to travel the force area.
- Ability to prioritise workload.
For further information relating to the role and tasks of this position please refer to the attached role requirement.
Perks of working for Humberside Police:
From great perks, agile working and professional development, we want you to have the best possible journey throughout your Humberside Police Career.
Our Police Staff work extremely hard, which is why we are proud to offer a host of reward and recognition schemes. Whether it’s Cycle to Work scheme, Gym and health schemes, we have the perks ready for you to benefit from.
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Further Perks:
- Generous annual leave allowance
- Training and development opportunities
- Coaching & Mentoring Scheme
- Employee assistance service (accessible 24/7)
- Flexible/Hybrid working where applicable.
- Generous pension scheme
- Blue Light Discount
- Access to the force’s onsite gyms
- Free on-site car parking
- Humber bridge tag
Pre – Employment Checks and Eligibility:
- Internal applicants MUST have completed a successful probationary period and tenure (if applicable) before applying for another role within the force.
- Applicants must meet the minimum requirement checkable history criteria of at least 3 years continuous residency in the UK to apply for roles with Humberside Police.
- Successful candidates will undergo a vetting procedure pre-requisite of employment. (Please note, with holding any information asked by the vetting department, may delay the vetting procedure, or result in your vetting been refused and the offer of employment been withdrawn)
- Tattoo’s will be reviewed as a part of the recruitment process to ensure we maintain a level of professional standards and to make sure the images do not cause offence or are unacceptable.
Contact point for applicants:
If you have any questions regarding the recruitment process, please contact us at recruiting@humberside.pnn.police.uk
How to apply for the role:
To apply for the role, please click the ‘Apply’ button below.
Please note, you must wait 3 months before submitting another application if you have applied for THIS role within the last 3 months.
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Closing Date: Sunday 3rd June 2026.
Interview date: TBC
It is not likely that closing dates will be extended, other than in exceptional circumstances and would need to be with the permission of the Recruitment Manager and Line Manager of the role.
The Recruitment Manager can authorise to close any vacancy before the closing date stated on the advert.
Attachments:
- Role Requirement
- Guidance for completing your application.
- Bank of Adjustments
- Preferred candidate roadmap
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