Department: Food & Beverages

Job Title: Supervisor – Food & Beverages

Reports To: Manager – Food & Beverages / Operations Manager

1. Job Purpose To supervise and coordinate the day-to-day Food & Beverages operations of the hospital, ensuring adequate staff availability, timely preparation and delivery of patient meals, proper food packing, hygiene, quality, portion control, and compliance with hospital food safety standards.

The Supervisor is responsible for ensuring that food reaches the correct patient, in the correct quantity, at the scheduled time, while maintaining proper coordination between the kitchen, dietetics, nursing departments, housekeeping and other concerned departments.

2. Key ResponsibilitiesA. Staff Availability & Attendance

- Monitor the overall availability and attendance of F&B; staff on every shift.
- Ensure adequate manpower is available for kitchen, food packing, patient meal distribution, cleaning and related activities.
- Prepare and monitor the daily duty allocation of F&B; staff.
- Identify staff shortages, absenteeism and manpower requirements and immediately report them to the Manager/HR.
- Ensure staff report for duty on time and follow assigned shifts.
- Allocate duties according to workload and operational requirements.
- Monitor staff productivity and ensure proper utilization of manpower.
- Ensure proper grooming, uniform, ID card and personal hygiene of all F&B; staff.

B. Patient Food Preparation & Timely Delivery

- Ensure patient meals are prepared and dispatched according to the prescribed meal schedule.
- Ensure breakfast, lunch, evening snacks and dinner reach patients on time without unnecessary delay.




- Coordinate with the Dietetics/Dietitian team and Nursing Department regarding patient diet requirements.
- Verify patient diet lists before food distribution.
- Ensure special diets, therapeutic diets and modified diets are provided strictly as instructed.
- Ensure food is delivered to the correct patient and correct room/bed.
- Monitor the complete process from food preparation → packing → dispatch → patient delivery.
- Immediately address complaints regarding delayed, incorrect or incomplete meals.

C. Food Packing & Distribution

- Ensure all patient food items are properly packed and sealed before dispatch.
- Ensure food containers are clean, suitable and properly closed to prevent leakage or contamination.
- Check that each food pack is properly identified/labeled wherever required.
- Ensure the patient's diet type and meal requirements are verified before packing.
- Ensure appropriate portion sizes are maintained.
- Check that all required food items are included before dispatch.
- Maintain a proper meal dispatch and distribution checklist/register.
- Monitor food distribution staff and ensure timely completion of rounds.
- Ensure returned/unserved meals are properly recorded and handled as per hospital procedure.

D. Food Quality & Hygiene

- Ensure food is maintained in a protected, hygienic and suitable condition until it reaches the patient.
- Monitor cleanliness of kitchen, food preparation areas, packing areas, serving areas and food distribution equipment.
- Ensure food handlers

For Job Opportunities contact HR Thirumalairajan @(phone hidden) Pay: ₹18,000.00 - ₹25,000.00 per month

Work Location: In person

📌 Supervisor - Food & Beverages (Kolathur)
🏢 Meridian Hospital
📍 Kolathur