Catering Assistant

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust; Basingstoke and Deane; On-site; GBP 21,000 - 29,000; Part time

Job summary

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust is recruiting a Catering Assistant at Whitchurch Hospital to support a safe, efficient catering service within a community hospital. You will help prepare and serve meals, maintain hygiene, and keep facilities clean and stocked for service.

The role includes weekend shifts as part of a 7-day service, with a part-time 18 hours per week schedule and a pro rata salary of £25,272 per annum. Training and induction will be provided.

Qualifications

• Demonstrable numeracy and literacy skills.
• Experience in commercial catering is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Ensure high quality control in food preparation, cooking and despatch.
• Serve meals and handle dining room cash.
• Maintain hygiene and cleanliness of catering areas.
• Assist with washing up and stock checks.
• Train and induct new catering staff and document training.
• Receive and check deliveries and manage storage.
• Handle money and complete required forms.

Skills

Numeracy

Literacy

Communication skills

Safety awareness

Follow instructions

Prioritise workload

Organisational skills

Commercial catering experience

Job description

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Main area Catering Grade NHS AfC: Band 2 Contract Permanent: To work weekend rota - including bank holidays to meet needs of the 7 day service Hours Part time - 18 hours per week (Including afternoon and weekends) Job ref 825-8247630-OPS

Site Whitchurch Hospital Town WHITCHURCH Salary £25,272 per annum / pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 17/09/2026 23:59

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Job overview

Please note that this job does not meet the 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 a Catering Assistant to support the delivery of a safe, efficient and high-quality catering service within our Community Hospital in Whitchurch. Working as part of the catering team, you will help prepare and serve food, maintain food hygiene standards and ensure catering facilities are clean, stocked and ready for use.You will work as part of a team to produce a high level of quality in the preparation of meals in accordance with work schedule as required.

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.

Working for our organisation

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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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

Trainning and Qualifications

• Ability to demonstrate good numeracy and literacy skills.

Experience

• Demonstrable previous commercial catering experience

Knowlegde and Skills

• General awareness of safety in the workplace, Be able to follow Instruction and prioritise workload
• Good communicational skills
• Ability to prioritise work
• Good Organisational skills

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust believes in fairness, equity and above all, values diversity in all aspects of its work, as a provider of health services and as an employer of people. We provide visa sponsorship to applicants who require this in order to have the right to work in the UK, providing that the role you have been offered meets the requirements set by the Home Office.

Applicants requiring a Skilled Worker Visa (such as data analysts, IT and finance professionals, etc) will need to meet the salary threshold of £41,700. For a limited number of clinical posts (listed here ), applications to the Health and Care Visa route will need to meet the national pay scale for their role or the minimum salary threshold of £25,000 (whichever is higher ). We advise that you check that the role you wish to apply for meets the requirement for sponsorship before applying.

Further guidance on eligible roles can be found here.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.