Catering assistant

NHS; East Midlands; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 22,000; Part time

Job summary

A healthcare trust in the East Midlands is seeking enthusiastic Catering Assistants to join their team. You will be responsible for food service in various locations, ensuring hygiene and safety standards are met. Candidates should have customer care skills, a basic food hygiene certificate, and cash handling abilities. This role offers competitive benefits including 27 days annual leave pro rata and a supportive working environment.

Benefits

27 days annual leave pro rata

Supportive team environment

Qualifications

• Experience working in a busy kitchen or coffee shop.
• Ability to work as part of a team and independently.
• Flexibility and initiative in approach to work.

Responsibilities

• Assisting with food service within the kitchen and coffee shop.
• Ensuring high standards of cleanliness and food hygiene.
• Cashier duties and reconciling cash taken at the end of the shift.

Skills

Customer care skills

Cash handling abilities

Good communication

Experience in a coffee shop or servery

Education

Basic food hygiene certificate

Job description

We are seeking enthusiastic and hardworking Catering Assistants to join our friendly dedicated catering team at the Kingsway and Radbourne units although you may be required to work at other local sites on occasion.

Catering Assistants within the hospital have a key role in maintaining a high standard of meal provision to patients, staff and visitors to the hospitals. You should have good organisational and communication skills, be flexible in your approach to work whilst demonstrating an ability to work using your own initiative and work as part of a team.

There are 2 posts which are 08:00 - 12:30 & 12:00 - 16:30

This is a lovely team working environment with good benefits with 27 days annual leave plus BH pro rata.

Employment in this post requires a Standard Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.

Main duties of the job

To be an integral member of the Catering Team ensuring the safe provision of Catering services to patients, staff and visitors.

Post involves working in the kitchen, restaurant, and coffee shops, and pot wash on a rota basis as required

About us

A as an employee of Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust you are required to adhere to the Trust's overriding value of putting "patients at the heart of everything we do". In recognising both the values expressed in the NHS Constitution and the Trust Values you will:

• Take pride in the Trust, show loyalty and commitment.
• Build and maintain trust in all our relationships.
• Treat everyone with respect, recognise people's differences.
• Value everyone, listen to others and respond accordingly.
• Be positive, honourable and honest but also sensitive
• Be respectful, welcoming, polite and courteous.
• Put quality at the centre of all we do.
• Educate and develop ourselves to perform to the highest standards

Job responsibilities

Assisting with food service within the kitchen or with the supply of refreshments for meetings.

Serving in the coffee shop, friendly and customer focused service, promoting drinks and extra sales by selling up.

Help in the cleaning and wash up area with the washing of pots and pans. Including the operation of the dishwasher when required

Ensure that Health & Safety Regulations and Food Hygiene Regulations are upheld, in accordance with training and instruction provided.

Assisting in the operation of the HACCP system with the checking and recording of freezers, refrigerators and vending machines and hot and cold cabinets temperatures in line with Assured Safe Catering procedures.

Setting up meetings in meeting rooms/offices for the service of beverages or refreshments.

Cashier duties, ensuring that all goods are sold at correct prices and entered into the till under the correct codes when working in Restaurant and Coffee Shop.

Reconciling cash taken at the end of the shift and paying in daily monies to the cashiers office when working in the Restaurant and Coffee shop.

Collection of dirty crockery from offices, meeting rooms and retail areas

Deliver and collection of food trolleys to and from wards

Preparation of salads and sandwiches for patients and retail and assisting with buffets as required.

Assist with the putting away of goods from suppliers when needed.

To undertake cleaning within the Catering Department to ensure high standards of cleanliness are maintained and COSHH regulations adhered to

Any other relevant duties as requested by the Catering Supervisor / Catering Manager.

Person Specification

• Some experience of working in a busy coffee shop or servery
• excellent customer care skills
• Have basic food hygiene certificate
• Cash handling abilities/use of cash registers
• Understands the concept of selling up, good communication

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.

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