Catering Assistant

Practice Plus Group; Plymouth; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 24,000; Full time

Job summary

Practice Plus Group is hiring a Catering Assistant at our Plymouth hospital to provide high-quality food and beverage service to patients, visitors and staff. You’ll work across main café, kitchen and wards, ensuring clean, hygienic spaces and responsive patient choices.

We offer permanent full-time roles (37.5 hours per week) with early and late shifts. Candidates must have the right to work in the UK and be prepared for security checks and vetting as part of joining our team.

Responsibilities

• Provide a high quality food and beverage service to patients, visitors and staff in the hospital.
• Assist with simple food preparation and maintain hygiene in food prep and dining areas.
• Support ward staff by understanding menu choices and dietary needs.

Job description

About The Role

Due to the increase of treatment and care we give to patients, our departments in our Plymouth based hospital are all expanding and this is leading to many new job opportunities being up for grabs!

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• make a difference for every patient

To further enhance our patients, experience and to make them and their families feel as comfortable as possible, we are in need additional Catering Assistant’s to join our friendly and close-knit catering team.

• What kind of value do you get from being a host and ensuring a customer’s comfort and satisfaction?
• What does customer care and customer focus mean to you?
• How can you help contribute to making someone feel better?

If you are looking to join an energetic and vibrant organisation that truly makes a difference to people’s lives on a daily basis, we have permanent Catering Assistant opportunities here for you.

We have permanent full time positions available (37.5 per week)

Working shift patterns from Monday to Sunday

• Early Shift - 0700 - 1500
• Late shift - 1030 - 1830

What you’ll be doing

As a Catering Assistant you’ll be responsible for providing an efficient, high quality and dedicated food and beverage service to our patients, visitors and staff in the hospital.

Currently there are two food and beverage sections in the hospital which are overseen by the Catering Team and then there are the wards themselves.

• Main Café – will include the undertaking of simple food preparation tasks including light meals, ensuring food preparation areas and the main consuming area (tables, chair and floor) is kept clean and hygienic at all times.
• Kitchen – Will be the preparing and serving breakfasts, lunches, and dinners, ensuring a clean and tidy environment and operating the dishwashing machine to process crockery and cutlery.
• Wards – Will need to understand the devised menu’s and communicate with patients regarding their menu choices, acting on any dietary requests for additional / alternative food or beverage requirements, in addition, you will need to inform staff of any patient who has refused or not eaten much of their meal for onward management.
• General – You’ll be involved in audit process processes and ensuring stock levels maintained and on sale stock items visible and replenished.

What we’ll look for in you

Everything we do is focused on providing a high standard of safe and effective patient care. When you’re part of the Practice Plus Group team, you don’t just have a job, you have a career!

We work with you to help you grow in your role and take your career in the direction you want to go. If you want to move up the ladder, well support you. If you just want to stay in your role, that’s fine too. Well, help you be the best you can be.

We want our team members to feel motivated and rewarded, so we offer a competitive package of pay and benefits. We also recognise the value of a healthy work-life balance so we always try to be flexible, helping you fit your working life around your home life.

Candidates are required to have a Legal right to work in the UK and due to the nature of the role, offers of employment will be subject to additional vetting and security checks.

At Practice Plus Group, we actively promote diversity and equal opportunities.