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POST 09/320 : FOOD SERVICE SUPERVISOR (X2 POSTS)


Key details

Salary
R193 359 โ€ข per annum
Centre
Groote Schuur Hospital, Observatory
Closing date
27 Mar 2026

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Overview
Join our team to supervise food service operations in a large-scale industrial kitchen, ensuring quality meals and maintaining hygiene and safety standards.

Requirements

Experience

Appropriate experience in a Large-Scale Industrial Food Service Unit.

Inherent requirement of the job: Straight shift but required to work late call and weekends 1 in 6.

Required to work night shifts (24/7) services.

Competencies (knowledge/skills): Ability to handle industrial equipment.

Dress according to Departmental specifications.

Good leadership, interpersonal skills and ability to work under pressure.

Knowledge and understanding of the basic food groups, normal and therapeutic diets, cooking methods, Hygiene and Safety standards.


Duties

Assist the Manager with Human and Financial Resource Management (Responsible for subordinates quarterly SPMS reporting, training allocation, leave, discipline and stock control of the Recon Kitchen).

Communicate with patients and ward staff to provide feedback of any problems and recommendations to the food service manager.

Supervise FSAโ€™s in the running of a reconstitution/kitchen and the night duty food service aidโ€™s in the Main Kitchen from 18h30-06h30.

Supervising and assisting with service of 3 meals and 4 beverages daily to the Patients, along with the cleaning and maintenance of the kitchen area and equipment and adhere to hygiene and safety standards.

Supervising service of the 20h00 tea and snack and the 05h00 coffee to the Patients on the wards, collect and cleaning of cups afterwards and supervise the cooking of the porridge for breakfast.

Supervise FSAโ€™s in the unloading and cleaning of supper trolleys and the washing of the crockery, lids, trays etc.


How to apply

Applications must be submitted online
or hand delivered at the Directorate of Human Resource Management
Second Floor
Ga-rona Building
Mmabatho.
All attachments for online applications including the Z83 and CV must be one document in PDF
indicating the correct job title and the reference number of the post on the subject line of your e-mail.
Use the correct e-mail address associated with the post.
Failure to do so
your application will be disqualified.

Tip: Many government posts require a completed Z83 form. Download it above and follow the guide.


Notes

No payment of any kind is required when applying for this post.

The pool of applications will be considered for vacancies within Groote Schuur Hospital, Observatory, for a period of three months from the date of the advert, provided that the job title, core functions, inherent requirements, and salary level are the same as those of the advertised post.

No payment of any kind is required when applying for this post.

Shortlisted candidates may be subjected to a practical test.

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