Food Safety and Health and Safety Advisor - South

Caterlink is the education sector catering specialist. For over 20 years, the Company has delivered fresh food solutions to pupils and staff at Primary Schools, Secondary Schools and Colleges across the UK. The company caters more than 1,000,000 meals a week. Our “Fresh Food Policy” is the foundation of our success and growth in the market coupled with a desire to truly deliver on the promises we make to our clients and support our site-based teams.

Caterlink are recruiting for a Food Safety and Health and Safety Advisor to work across our South region, working as part of our Food Safety and Health and Safety Team.

You will be taking a key role in driving standards of excellence, building strong relationships and leading by example as well as having the opportunity to build on your skills and knowledge through career development training.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide professional food safety, health & safety and related support to the Food Safety and Health and Safety team and Operations team as required.
• Support during the investigation of all accidents, alerts and near misses, ensuring these are recorded and processed in line with company procedures in a timely manner. Also ensuring electronic systems (Prime) are updated accordingly.
• Support for developing, engaging and rolling out safety initiatives and information to meet the company’s expectations.
• Support the development of a strong safety culture.
• Support on the investigation of alleged food poisoning investigations and food safety related complaints.
• Visiting sites to ensure Caterlink’s policies and processes are being fully implemented and reporting your findings.
• Support of changes to food legislation or company policy implementation.
• Liaising with Caterlink’s 3rd party auditing contractor.

The role will require occasional overnight stays.

• Qualified to Level 3 in Food Safety and Health and Safety.
• To demonstrate an understanding of what it means to drive a safety culture.
• A professional approach to time, costs and working to deadlines.
• Possess excellent communication skills.
• Good organisation skills.
• Experience of working in the catering sector is desirable.
• Must have full driving licence and own car. (A car allowance will be paid as part of the benefits provided)

There are many advantages to working for us including:

• Salary - £27,000 per annum (+£3,660 car allowance per annum)
• Hours per week - 40 hours per week; Monday to Friday
• With Caterlink you have the opportunity to a blended learning programme that can include formal qualifications including Apprenticeships, classroom training, eLearning and on the job training to support and encourage your development and enable you to be the best you can be. Everyone who joins us is provided with an induction where they learn more about us and enable them to be the best they can be. We invest in development opportunities and are always looking to recruit, train and retain the best people for our own future talent and your own future development.
• Working for Caterlink ensure you are able to enjoy a great work/life balance – this is the beauty of working term-time only and no weekends!
• We offer you access to our Employee Discount Platform where you can make great savings at supermarkets, cinema, restaurants as well as holiday discounts, family days out and many more!
• Our Employee Assistance Program and Virtual GP benefits are there for you and your family to use free of charge at any time
• You may be eligible to join our Pension scheme