Catering Assistant Band 2

United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust; Lincoln; On-site; GBP 23,000 - 28,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

NHS Pension

Annual leave 27–33 days

Job summary

United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust in Lincolnshire is recruiting for a Catering Assistant (Band 2) to support hospital cafes and restaurants. We offer three posts: two full-time 37.5 hours and one 22.5 hours per week, with flexible hours and enhanced rates for weekends/bank holidays.

Training is provided, Barista skills are encouraged, and you will join a supportive NHS team focused on delivering high-quality service to patients, staff and visitors.

Qualifications

• Basic Food Hygiene certificate or willingness to work towards.
• EHO Allergen Awareness certificate or willingness to work towards.

Responsibilities

• Serving customers with a smile and delivering excellent service
• Making barista style drinks (full training provided)
• Preparing and serving food
• Keeping areas stocked, clean, and welcoming
• Supporting all areas of our retail catering team

Skills

Basic Food Hygiene

Customer service

Teamwork

Barista training

COSHH knowledge

HACCP knowledge

Education

Basic Food Hygiene certificate

EHO Allergen Awareness certificate

Job description

Main area Catering Grade NHS AfC: Band 2 Contract Permanent: 2x 37.5hrs per week and 1 x 22.5 hrs per week Hours

• Full time
• Part time

37.5 hours per week (Mix of hours) Job ref 357-LN-143-26-QIA2180-D

Employer United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Employer type NHS Site Lincoln County Hospital Town Lincoln Salary £25,272 per annum, pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 29/09/2026 23:59

Catering Assistant Band 2

NHS AfC: Band 2

We recognise that outstanding care can only be delivered through our people. We want to attract people who can help us deliver our vision. We want in return to help people achieve what they wish in their careers in the NHS at ULTH.

We are always keen to welcome highly skilled, committed and compassionate individuals to our hospitals – people who put patients at the heart of everything they do and are ready to help us achieve our vision.

Our Group values guide everything we do. They are:

Compassionate - We care about people - Compassionate is the act of showing empathy, kindness, and respect to others, recognising their individual needs and circumstances. It involves listening, understanding, and supporting others in a way that makes them feel valued, safe, and cared for.

Collaborative - We work together as a team - Collaborative is working inclusively and respectfully with others to achieve shared goals. It involves open communication, valuing diverse perspectives, and building trust to create a supportive and effective team environment.

Innovative - We strive to improve - Innovative is the process of exploring new ideas, approaches, and technologies to improve care, services, and working practices. It involves creativity, curiosity, and a willingness to take risks in a safe and supportive environment.

If you believe in them too, then you are ready to join the ULTH team.

We’ve taken great pride in building working environments where staff always feel valued, cared for and part of a team. Without doubt this is a challenging yet very rewarding job that is at the centre of health and care in Lincolnshire - making a positive difference to our patients.

Our Trust is situated in the beautiful county of Lincolnshire and is one of the biggest acute hospital trusts in England, serving a population of more than 700,000 people. We provide acute and specialist services to people in Lincolnshire and neighbouring counties. We have an annual income of £710 million (22/23) and we employ nearly 8,600 people.

Our Group Board have recently agreed a new vision statement – “Caring and building a healthier future for all” – stating their ambition for our Trust and the wider group to be among the best.

We also have a five year Integrated Improvement Plan setting out how we will achieve our strategic objectives, for patients, services, people and partners, the last recognising that our future success depends on our ability to ensure the Lincolnshire healthcare system is successful in achieving its ambition to help people live healthier lives and provide care closer to where people live.

Our latest CQC report increased our ratings for being effective and well-led from ‘Requires Improvement’ to ‘Good’. Our rating for caring remained as ‘Good’.

This is in recognition of the huge amount of work that our amazing staff have done to improve the quality of care for our patients in recent years.

We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated.

So,what is in it for you?

• Flexible working: Depending on the needs of your role, we will consider requests for flexible and/or part-time working for whatever reason you should need it. We recognise flexible working will not look the same for everyone, because it depends on the nature of the role and the needs of the individual.

Types of flexibility could include:

• Part-time - less than 37.5 hours per week.
• Off-site/remote working - working from home or other sites for part or all the week.
• Compressed hours – usually full-time hours but over fewer days or shifts.
• Staggered hours – having different start and finish times.
• Set shift patterns – to allow for predictability
• NHS Pension:A generous and flexible pension scheme with contributions from us as your employer fully protected against inflation and guaranteed by the government
• Annual Leave: Starting at 27 days a year, rising to 33 days after 10 years plus eight bank holidays (for staff covered by Agenda for Change) For Medical Workforce positions (Consultant and Specialty Doctor), the full-time entitlement commences from 32 days per annum. For all other Medical Workforce positions, the full-time entitlement commences from 27 days per annum.
• Bank working:The chance to work extra hours at enhanced rates and we will pay you weekly too, ideal if your income needs a quick boost.

In addition, there ismore.

• Family & Childcare: Including on-site nurseries at Lincoln County Hospital and Pilgrim Hospital Boston, maternity, paternity, adoption & shared parental leave following a set period of employment.
• Health & Wellbeing: including counselling, mental health first aid, physiotherapy, eye tests.
• Learning & Development including Lincolnshire Talent Academy, leadership training, medical education, clinical education, Lincolnshire clinical research
• Financial support and benefits i ncluding Cycle2Work, car lease scheme, home electronics. Free on-site parking and free tea and coffee and the ability to save and borrow through your salary.
• Rewards & Recognition including staff awards, long service awards, retirement awards, examples of excellence and staff lottery.

Enjoy a better quality of life in one of the UK’s most welcoming counties. Whether you’re taking the first exciting steps in your career, itching for a new challenge or searching for a better place to raise a family, Lincolnshire welcomes everyone. Discover a range of rewarding health and social care careers in a county that’s friendly, fascinating, affordable and brimming with everything you need to live a happy life.

Job overview

Join Our Retail Catering Team at Lincoln County Hospital!

We’re recruiting enthusiastic, flexible team members to work across our busy cafés and restaurants. No two days are the same — you’ll be part of a fast ‑ paced, friendly team delivering great service to patients, visitors, and staff.

We have two full time (37.5hours) post and one 22.5 hour post. The hours will vary from 7am starts to 8pm finishes over a 7 day period and a typical shift will be 7.5 hours. Details of this will be discussed at interview. We offer good enhanced rates of pay for weekend and bank holiday working.

What you’ll be doing:

• Serving customers with a smile and delivering excellent service
• Making barista style drinks (full training provided)
• Preparing and serving food
• Keeping areas stocked, clean, and welcoming
• Supporting all areas of our retail catering team

We’re looking for people who thrive in busy environments, work well as part of a team, and maintain high standards of personal hygiene and customer care.

Working hours are flexible and will include weekends and bank holidays to meet the needs of the service.

Main duties of the job

We’re looking for a motivated, proactive individual to join our busy catering team. You’ll need strong communication and customer service skills, along with the ability to follow written and verbal instructions and maintain strict hygiene standards

We’re looking for a motivated, proactive individual to join our busy catering team. You’ll need strong communication and customer service skills, along with the ability to follow written and verbal instructions and maintain strict hygiene standards.

What we’re looking for:

• A team player who can work confidently in a fast paced environment
• Someone with excellent personal hygiene and attention to detail
• Basic Food Hygiene Certificate (essential)
• Barista training (desirable – training can be provided)
• Some understanding of HACCP and COSHH (advantageous but not required)

If you’re passionate about great food, great service, and great teamwork — we’d love to hear from you!

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a friendly, supportive team and make a real difference every day. Be part of something bigger. Your NHS needs you!

Working for our organisation

Lincoln Hospital is a thriving university city and with the opening of the medical school, it provides all major specialties and a 24-hour major accident and emergency service.

United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust has been granted teaching hospital status, after demonstrating evidence to significant teaching commitment. From now on it will be known as United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.

Pilgrim Hospital is situated in beautiful countryside and serves the communities in the South Lincolnshire area. It provides all major specialties and a 24-hour major accident and emergency service.

Grantham and District Hospital serves the communities of Grantham and the local area. It provides ambulatory paediatric and accident and emergency services.

Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust (LCHS) and United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust (ULHT) have come together in a Group arrangement, with the goal of improving the care provided to patients across the county.

This will not constitute a formal merger of the two organisations, but will bring the Trusts together under a single Board and Executive Leadership Team, with the goal of improving the care that is provided to patients both in the community and in hospitals across Lincolnshire. Both Trusts will retain their separate statutory names and legal obligations.

The Group will be known as Lincolnshire Community and Hospitals NHS Group (LCHG).

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

What should you do next?

Person specification

Evidence of Particular: - Knowledge - Skills - Aptitudes

• Able to complete simple records
• Able to operate machinery after training
• Capable of working without direct supervision
• Knowledge of Health & Safety, manual handling, COSHH
• Awareness and Knowledge of the dignity in care agenda.
• Ability to evidence/demonstrate key values and behaviours in line with the Trust framework: Patient Centred Safety Compassion Respect and Excellence
• Good customer care skills
• Experience in using catering equipment
• Knowledge of food service including dietary requirements and portion control

Previous Experience (Nature & Level)

• Evidence of high personal standards
• Experienced in working within catering services
• Experience of working in a customer focused environment
• Previous experience working in a large scale catering department
• Previous experience of working in a customer focused environment

Qualifications (Academic, Professional & Vocational)

• Basic Food Hygiene certificate or Willingness to work towards.
• EHO Allergen Awareness certificate or willingness to work towards.
• Basic Food Hygiene certificate or Willingness to work towards.
• EHO Allergen Awareness certificate or willingness to work towards.

Specific Requirements

• Ability to work as part of a team.
• Ability to work under pressure and meet the demands of the service.
• Able to work in high and low temperature areas.

ULTH recognises that everyone is different, and values the unique contribution that individual experiences, knowledge and skills make in delivering quality healthcare and becoming a model employer. We are committed to transforming our organisational culture by actively committing to implementing the Trust Single Equality Scheme, and other policies, such as the Dignity in Care policy and the Dignity at Work policy. We will continue to promote equality and challenge discrimination in all service provision, recognising and meeting the needs of the diverse communities we serve. We will strive to provide an environment in which people want to work and to be a model employer leading in good employment practice.

Due to the high volume of applications we receive, ULTH reserves the right to close this advert prior to the closing date.

We welcome applications from the UK Armed Forces Community. On the application form please tick “Member of the Armed Forces Community” if the below applies to you.

You are:

• A Veteran
• A Military Reserve
• Partner/Spouse of those Serving NB: partners/spouses are only eligible whilst their partner is serving in the Armed Forces

All new employees will be subject to a charge for the DBS check that is required for the post. The Disclosure & Barring Service application form (formerly CRB) will be provided by ULTH and the fee will be deducted from your salary over a 3 month period.

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Please note, for applicants with previous NHS service: If successful at interview, we will initiate an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) via the Electronic Staff Record (ESR). This retrieves key data from your current or previous NHS employer to support onboarding, including competency status, Continuous Service Dates (CSD), and annual leave entitlement.

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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.