Trainee Food Safety and Health and Safety Compliance Auditor

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.

We are recruiting for a Trainee Food Safety and Health and Safety Compliance Auditor to work within the South West 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

• Undertaking Food Safety and Health and Safety compliance audits within Primary and Secondary sites to ensure Caterlink’s policies and processes are being fully implemented and reporting your findings.
• Liaising with the Operations Team to ensure the findings are being actioned and signed off.
• Support of changes to food legislation or company policy implementation.
• Support for engaging and rolling out safety initiatives and information to meet the company’s expectations.
• Support the development of a strong safety culture.
• To ensure all required training is completed.

The role will require occasional overnight stays.

• Qualified to Level 2 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.
• An Enhanced DBS Disclosure and satisfactory references will be required for this role.

There are many advantages to working for us including:

• £13.25 per hour
• Term-time only role working Monday-Friday - flexible working will be considered
• Monthly car allowance plus fuel costs reimbursed
• 33 days holiday inclusive of bank holidays
• You will be eligible to join our Workplace Pension Scheme with Aviva
• Fully expensed company laptop + mobile phone
• Virtual GP for you and your family (eligibility rules apply)
• 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
• 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.
• As our core business is mainly in term time, the school breaks do enable the opportunity to catch up and plan for the next term, which isn’t always a luxury in a business operating 52 weeks of the year