💷Salary: £56,370 - £63,629 per annum
(Appointments made within this range based on relevant experience and internal salary alignment)
📍Location: Cheltenham & Gloucester Hospitals (Cross-site)
📅 Interim appointment for a minimum of 6 months
Gloucestershire Managed Services (GMS) is seeking an experienced and dynamic Interim Head of Catering to lead Catering and Retail Services across our hospital sites.
This senior leadership role is responsible for delivering safe, high-quality and customer-focused catering services for patients, staff and visitors, while driving service improvement, workforce development, financial performance and regulatory compliance.
👤 We’re looking for someone with:
✅ Significant experience leading catering, hospitality or food service operations within a large, complex organisation
✅ Strong leadership, people management and change management experience
✅ Advanced Food Hygiene (Level 4 Food Safety) and HACCP Level 3 qualifications
✅ Experience operating within a regulated, budget-controlled environment with responsibility for financial performance and resource management
✅ Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills
🔍 What you’ll do:
- Lead Catering and Retail Services across GMS
- Drive service improvement and transformation
- Ensure compliance with food safety, nutritional and quality standards
- Develop and support motivated and engaged teams
- Manage budgets, resources and supplier relationships to deliver sustainable value-for-money services within a publicly funded healthcare environment
- Work collaboratively with clinical and operational colleagues
- Contribute as a member of the GMS Senior Management Team
🌟 Why GMS?
✅ Lead an essential service that directly supports patient care and experience
✅ Drive service improvement and innovation across Catering and Retail Services
✅ Work alongside senior operational and clinical leaders
✅ Influence service delivery across one of the region’s largest healthcare organisations
✅ Generous annual leave, pension, flexible benefits and wellbeing support
⚠️ Important Information
This post is employed by Gloucestershire Managed Services (GMS), a wholly owned subsidiary of Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
The role is not covered by NHS Agenda for Change (AfC) Terms and Conditions. GMS Terms and Conditions of Employment apply.
A summary of GMS Terms & Conditions can be provided on request.
If you’re an experienced catering leader who is passionate about delivering high-quality services that make a real difference to patient care and experience, we’d love to hear from you.
Join GMS and help shape the future of Catering Services across Gloucestershire.
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