Bank Catering Operative

Bristol NHS Foundation Trust; West of England; On-site; GBP 16,000 - 30,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

NHS Pension scheme

Training & induction

Job summary

Bristol NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting for catering staff to join our Bank team. You will prepare meals, serve in staff restaurant and ward level patient meal service, and support stores and kitchen operations in a busy hospital setting.

Flexible shifts include early, late, nights, weekends with competitive hourly rates; you will work with multidisciplinary teams and benefit from NHS Pension and structured training and induction.

Qualifications

• Hold or obtain within 3 months a Level 2 Foundation certificate in Food Hygiene.
• Up-to-date awareness of Catering Procedures and Food Safety.

Responsibilities

• Preparing, pre-wrapping and date stamping and pricing items for service.
• Preparing workstations for meal service and serving to patients, staff and guests.
• Dispatching meals, assisting chefs with preparation, and cooking basic items for servery.
• Cleaning premises and equipment and maintaining food hygiene standards.
• Handling cash and using the till as required.

Skills

Communication

Education

Level 2 Foundation certificate in Food Hygiene or equivalent

Tools

Cash handling

Job description

Job Overview

Are you interested in finding out more about Catering roles within our Bank team?

Main duties of the job

Here are a few reasons to apply

• Bank workers are valued members of our team and have access to exceptional benefits, including access to the NHS Pension scheme, and full training and induction support
• Bank offer flexible working patterns to meet your needs, offering earlies, lates, long days and nights with competitive rates.

• £11.45 per hour- Week days
• £16.49 per hour- Nights and Saturdays
• £21.53 per hour- Sundays and Bank Holidays
• All rates are inclusive of annual leave allowance
• State of the art facilities- you will be based within our award-winning Brunel building, which has recently won Best Acute Hospital Development at the 2017 Building Better Healthcare Awards in London and Best Healthcare Design over 25,000sqm at the European Healthcare Awards
• You will increase your skill set by working with multidisciplinary teams to deliver all admin support across many different areas within the Trust.

Are You

• Excited at the prospect of supporting our Trust by serving food in either our Staff Restaurant or Ward Level Patient Meal Service?
• Able to play a key role in our catering team, which may include the following duties:
• Preparing vegetables, fruit, salads, sandwiches, toast, beverages and other food items
• Working as a Pot Wash and supporting the catering stores area
• Working as a ward operative, preparing and serving food directly to patients’
• Working as a kitchen porter, providing additional support as required in our catering preparation unit
• Supporting services within the Coffee Shop both Barista and Serving customers
• Providing services within the staff Restaurant including serving food, cleaning of restaurant areas, washing up duties
• Cooking and preparation of basic food items within both CPU and the main Staff Restaurant
• Handling cash and the ability to use a cash till.

Working for our organisation

Bristol NHS Foundation Trust brings together more than 28,000 staff to deliver over 160 clinical services across thirteen hospital locations, operating from three main sites at Southmead, Bristol city centre and Weston. With an annual turnover of £2.3 billion, we are now one of the largest NHS trusts in the United Kingdom. Our hospitals are spread across Bristol and Weston, join us and you can enjoy the very best of both worlds; city living within a stone’s throw of the countryside or beside the seaside, both with easy access to all that the South West has to offer. Bristol NHS Foundation Trust values all people as individuals. As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them. Anonymous information will be used from your application in order to ensure we’re meeting our pledge.

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

For a full overview of the Job Description, please refer to the PDF Job Description attached as an additional document to this advert.

• Preparing, pre-wrapping and date stamping and pricing as appropriate menu items, e.g., salads, sandwiches, some cold sweets, cheese and biscuits etc.
• Preparing of workstations for the service of meals
• Serving and/or dispatching of meals for patients, staff, visitors and special function guests.
• Dispatching of meals for patients, staff, visitors and special function guests (via the conveyor belt system where applicable).
• Assisting Chefs as and when required with food preparation in readiness for cooking
• Preparing and cooking of specific food items for servery
• Cleaning of premises including floors, walls, sinks, wash hand basins, work surfaces, cupboards, toilets etc.
• Cleaning of large items of equipment including ovens, refrigerators, mixing machines, brat pans, boilers etc.
• Washing of crockery, cutlery and other utensils and small items of equipment
• Cleaning of food trolleys, general purpose trolleys, bain maries and hot cupboards etc.
• Maintaining agreed standards of food hygiene at all times.
• Taking items to and collecting items from wards and other departments as required.
• Replenishing of Vending Machine and completion of necessary paperwork.
• Loading / unloading and movement of meal service trolleys and insulated food boxes.

Person specification

Knowledge, Skills And Abilities

• Ability to communicate with other catering staff regarding work issues and instructions

Qualifications

• To hold or obtain within 3 months of commencement of employment with NBT, a Level 2 Foundation certificate in Food Hygiene or its equivalent.

Experience

• Up to date awareness of Catering Procedures and Food Safety
• Recently working or have worked in the Catering industry in the last 3 years (been in post not later than 6 months)

Desirable criteria

• Currently Works in the Catering Industry