Bank Catering Assistant

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust; Ludlow; Vor Ort; GBP 12.000 - 15.000; Teilzeit

Zusammenfassung

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust is seeking Bank Catering Assistants for Ludlow Community Hospital. You will help prepare and serve meals, maintain high food hygiene standards, and support the smooth running of the catering service. Bank working allows flexible hours to suit availability.

The role includes handling cash, training new staff, and ensuring delivery and stock processes are followed. Prior experience is helpful, and basic Food Hygiene certification is preferred.

Qualifikationen

• Food Hygiene level 2 certificate or willingness to work towards within 12 months.
• Ability to demonstrate good numeracy and literacy skills.

Aufgaben

• Ensure good quality control during food preparation, cooking and despatch with documentation per safe food system.
• Serve meals and handle cash for dining room till when required.
• Maintain high hygiene standards across the catering department and personal hygiene.

Kenntnisse

Numeracy skills

Literacy skills

Prioritisation

Safety awareness

Organisational skills

Ausbildung

Food Hygiene level 2 certificate

Jobbeschreibung

Please note that this job does not meet the salary requirements for work visa sponsorship and as such we will be unable to progress your application if you do not have the right to work in the UK.

We are recruiting for Bank Catering Assistants at Ludlow Community Hospital. We are looking for enthusiastic individuals who are reliable, flexible, well organised, self-motivated, have good interpersonal communication skills and are able to work effectively alone and as part of a team. You will help prepare and serve meals, maintain high food hygiene standards and support the smooth running of the catering service, ensuring patients receive a high-quality dining experience. Bank working allows you to work flexibly to suit your availability.

Please note this vacancy may close early if a high volume of applications is received, we advise you submit your application early to avoid disappointment.

Main duties of the job

• Ensuring a good standard of quality control during preparations, cooking and despatch of food. This will include documentation of the process in accordance with a safe food system.
• Serving meals and taking of cash for dining room till whenever necessary.
• Responsible for practising good hygiene in regard to all aspects of the working of a catering department and including the maintenance of a good standard of personal hygiene
• Assisting with the washing/drying up at lunch time.
• Ensuring that all freezers/fridges are cleaned and defrosted regularly.
• To complete food orders when required
• Assisting with ward stores order.
• To be responsible for the induction and training of new catering staff and that all training is documented.
• Responsible for taking receipt of goods and putting away in the appropriate area's
• Accepting and checking delivery of goods as necessary.
• The handling of money and filling in the appropriate form.

About us

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust provides community-based health services for adults and children in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin, and some services in surrounding areas too. These range from district nursing, health visiting and running four community hospitals through to providing very specialist community care through talented and dedicated staff.

Patients, carers and the public play a vital role in helping us to develop and improve our services and we are constantly looking for ways to work with local communities, patients and the public to innovate and improve. Have a look at the Have Your Say section of our website to find out how you can feed back your experiences and help us to continually improve.

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust is an exciting place to work. It offers a wide range of employment opportunities for many people.

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust positively encourages applications from all areas of the community, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation or religious beliefs. We are committed to ensuring people who work for the community trust have a good working life - and a good work life/home life balance.

Job responsibilities

Please see the Job Description and Person Specification attached for further information on the role.

Training and Qualifications

• Food Hygiene (level 2) certificate or the willingness to work towards within 12 months
• Ability to demonstrate good numeracy and literacy skills.

Knowldege and Skills

• Ability to prioritise work
• General awareness of safety
• Good organisational skills

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.