Catering Assistant - Retail - Aintree Site Bistro

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Liverpool; On-site; AUD 23,000 - 29,000; Full time

Job summary

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting a Catering Assistant for the Retail unit at the Aintree Site Bistro. The role involves coffee preparation, food service, cash handling and customer care within a busy hospital retail environment.

You may be required to work across different outlets within the catering department, including bank holidays, and should be flexible to the needs of the service. IT skills are used for training and appraisals.

Responsibilities

• Making coffee and food preparation
• Serving customers and handling cash
• Making sandwiches and kitchen cleaning
• Providing customer care and high service standards

Job description

Catering Assistant - Retail - Aintree Site Bistro

Company:

Company: Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

A Vacancy at Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

The catering department at Liverpool University Hospitals is an exciting place to work.

We feed all of the patients but also have modern retail units. We try to bring the high street into the hospital by offering modern concepts to staff and visitors.

All the outlets are very busy and we want you to encourage sales. These posts are very rewarding jobs.

We are looking for staff who are self motivated and can work in a team or on their own unsupervised. We require staff who are flexible and open to change to join our catering team. These positions will be based in a busy hospital, you may be moved as the needs of the service requires, also you may be required to work Bank holidays including Christmas Day.

The Bistro

The Bistro is a busy unit at the entrance of the hospital . The post will involve making coffee, food preparation , serving customers, making sandwiches, kitchen cleaning, cash handling and customer care

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital & Royal Liverpool University Hospital.

We are part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, formed on 1 Nov 2024 from the coming together of LUHFT and Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust. The Group was born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide our patients.

UHLG is one of the largest employers in the region, with over 16,800 colleagues dedicated to caring for our communities - from birth and beyond.

For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, we are their local NHS. We provide general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services for more than two million people in the North West.

Aintree University Hospitalis the single receiving site for adult major trauma patients in Cheshire and Merseyside and hosts a number of regional services including an award-winning stroke facility.Broadgreen Hospitalis home to elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation.Liverpool Women’s Hospitalspecialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK’s largest single site maternity hospital each year. TheRoyal Liverpool University Hospitalis the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single bedrooms and focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.

For roles at Liverpool Women’s, visit theircareers page.

Although the jobs are primarily based in the unit advertised, you may be required to work anywhere within the catering department depending on the needs of the service. This could include the Royal site & Broadgreen. This could also include working in the patients kitchen.

IT skills are required for all positions as the Trust does mandatory training and yearly appraisals online.

This advert closes on Wednesday 14 Oct 2026

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust