Catering Assistant
Job Description
Job summary
Job Title: Catering Assistant
Hours per week: 37.5 hours per week (Tuesday - Saturday)
Perm/Fixed Term: Permanent
Salary: £23,615 pro rata
**This post may close early due to high numbers of applications, so you are advised to apply promptly. **
Closing Date: Friday 24th January 2025
Interview Date: TBC
This post may close early due to high numbers of applications, so you are advised to apply promptly.
All correspondence for this vacancy will be sent by email; please check your account regularly including your Junk and SPAM areas.
A great and friendly place to work, so bring your passion, commitment and expertise and enjoy the opportunities to make a difference every day.
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Main duties of the job
- To support the wider catering team in the provision of all catering services including covering and supporting other catering roles as required by the needs of the service.
- Cleaning and deep cleaning duties as required within the catering department, including patient's crockery, cutlery, service utensils, food boxes, patient trays, flight dishwasher, floors, fridges, freezers and Cook-Chill hold rooms
- To ensure basic food hygiene standards are maintained and breeches are communicated appropriately and in a timely manner, in accordance with the departmental food safety documentation.
- To record accurate temperatures in line with food preparation and cooking procedures - HACCP.
- Communicate and liaise with staff across the Trust.
About us
Here at George Eliot our vision to'excel at patient care' takes centre stage. An ever evolving clinically-led acute service provider we are on a journey to continually provide high quality, safe and responsive services delivered by inspiring, friendly and compassionate staff who share our corporate values which underpin everything we do. Our values are not just words on a piece of paper, they bond us together, reflect our ambition and shape who we are:
Effective Open Communication
excellence and safety in everything we do
Challenge but support
Expect respect and dignity
Local health that inspires confidence
Benefits: On-site nursery, 27 days minimum annual leave plus bank holidays, cycle to work scheme, flexible working, in house training and development, buying and selling of annual leave, subsidised restaurant, tranquillity garden and generous subsidised on-site parking.
Job responsibilities
- Communicates information with/to colleagues, staff, suppliers, patients and public.
- To support the wider catering team in the provision of all catering services including covering and supporting other catering roles as required by the needs of the service.
- Preparation of sandwiches, salads, fruit for the patients/restaurant and hospitality/function services.
- The service of food in the restaurant, coffee shop, including setting up and clearing down of service area.
- Cleaning and deep cleaning duties as required within the catering department, including patients crockery, cutlery, service utensils, food boxes, patient trays, flight dishwasher, floors, fridges, freezers and Cook-Chill hold rooms
- To be responsible for the general cleaning and deep cleaning of the Restaurant, servery area, washing up area, store rooms, function/Hospitality room, servery equipment, coffee machines, crockery, cutlery, tables, and all areas within the Restaurant.
For a full comprehensive list of main responsibilities and duties, please kindly refer to job description and personal specification attached.
Person Specification
Experience & Knowledge
Essential
- Demonstration of previous work experience paid or voluntary.
- Customer Service and Customer focused awareness
- Awareness of Food Hygiene
- Dealing with people
- Good standard of general education
- Must be able to fulfil the physical requirements of the post to include: Manual handling, kneeling, bending, crouching, lifting, repetitive movements. Moving trolleys, beds etc
- Use a variety of equipment
- Willingness to learn new skills and apply in workplace
- Accuracy and attention to detail
- Good written and verbal communication
- Maintain confidentiality of information
- Flexible attitude and ability to work as part of a team and on their own
- Motivated and enthusiastic
- Punctual and reliable
- Understanding of the importance/relevance of good basic hygiene
Desirable
- Previous experience of working in a hospital/care environment
- Awareness of COSHH
- GCSE English and Maths A-D grades or equivalent qualifications
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Employer details
Employer name
George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust
Address
George Eliot Hospital Trust
College Street
Nuneaton
CV10 7DJ
