Catering Assistant

NHS; Warrington; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 22,000; Full time

Job summary

A distinguished healthcare organization in Warrington is seeking a Catering Assistant. Responsibilities include delivering meal services to patients and staff, maintaining food safety standards, and performing cleaning duties. The ideal candidate will have a minimum of 3 years of experience and possess good communication skills. This position requires physical fitness and attention to detail during meal service. Competitive compensation is offered.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years of relevant experience.
• Ability to communicate effectively.
• Must be physically fit for handling tasks.

Responsibilities

• Deliver meals to patients and staff, ensuring high presentation standards.
• Carry out cleaning duties and maintain food safety standards.
• Communicate with colleagues and nursing staff for meal requests.

Skills

Good communication

Physically fit

Concentration for reading menu cards

Job description

Go back Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHSFT

Catering Assistant

The closing date is 05 October 2025

To deliver a meal service to patients and staff, either by plated or bulk delivery system, ensuring that presentation standards are high and food safety standards are adhered to.

To carry out dishwashing duties, cleaning of equipment and cleaning of the kitchen and associated areas.

Main duties of the job

To communicate on a daily basis with colleagues and nursing staff, this could be face to face within the hospital or by receiving telephone requests into the department for extra meals or special diets.

To deal with deliveries on an occasional basis, receiving deliveries within the department.

To liaise with Managers & supervisors daily and act upon specific tasks required.

To allow new starters to shadow various duties in the department such as cleaning, dishwashing and food service.

To visit wards as and when required to gain patient meal choices.

To ensure tasks such as trolley transportation, tug driving, use of equipment, lifting hot liquids and other tasks which may carry a hazard to oneself or others are carried out in a safe manner.

Carry out general cleaning duties within the department for example floor cleaning, cleaning of the equipment and emptying rubbish bins, ensuring cleaning schedules are completed and COSHH regulations are observed.

About us

Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is a caring and compassionate organisation that is both ambitious and innovative. We are committed to delivering the best outcomes for our patients and providing a positive experience for our staff. We aspire to be outstanding for our patients, our communities and our staff and are committed to being a great place to receive healthcare, work and learn.

Straddling the neighbouring boroughs of Warrington and Halton we are part of the Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care system. Our hospitals are ideally situated to meet the growing healthcare needs of the 330,000 population of these boroughs.

Warrington Hospital is home to our emergency, critical care and maternity services, Halton Hospital is focused on elective procedures and the Runcorn Urgent Treatment Centre, although many services are offered at both sites and in community hubs.

A CQC-rated 'good' organisation with 'outstanding' features, we are working towards university hospital status, having achieved teaching hospital status in 2019.

Our workforce of nearly 5,000 across both sites comprises more than 50 nationalities. We strive to be an equal, diverse and inclusive employer, which is recognised as a pioneer in its equality, diversity and inclusion work. The Trust is proud to have achieved numerous external accreditations and is working towards achieving the Anti-Racist Organisation Framework, recognising the importance of anti-racism in all that we do.

Job responsibilities

Carry out general cleaning duties within the department for example floor cleaning, cleaning of the equipment and emptying rubbish bins, ensuring cleaning schedules are completed and COSHH regulations are observed.

Person Specification

Experience

• Minimum 3 years
• Good communication

Skills and Qualities

• Physically fit
• Need for concentration due to the reading of menu cards during meal service

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.

Employer name

Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHSFT