Catering Assistant | Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

The Great Western Hospitals NHS FT; Patterdown; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Part time

Job summary

A local healthcare trust is seeking a part-time Catering Assistant at Chippenham Community Hospital, working 16.5 hours per week including weekends. Responsibilities include preparing food items, ensuring compliance with food safety standards, and providing excellent customer care to patients and staff. The ideal candidate should be flexible and ready to receive full training. This role offers the chance to join a dedicated team passionate about delivering high-quality services.

Qualifications

• Relevant qualifications and/or experience would be an advantage but are not essential as training will be provided.
• Ability to prepare and serve food in accordance with safety and quality standards.
• Capable of communicating effectively with patients and staff.

Responsibilities

• Prepare salads, sandwiches, sauces, and soups.
• Ensure compliance with food temperature standards for prepared meals.
• Adjust menus to meet dietary needs of patients.
• Handle and serve modified meals for special diets.
• Manage cleaning duties as per departmental standards.

Skills

Customer care

Food safety compliance

Flexibility

Job description

We are looking to recruit a part time Catering Assistant at Chippenham Community Hospital, working 16.5 hours per week, weekend work included.

The successful candidate will be responsible for achieving a high standard of catering practices. Ensuring all food produced meets the required standards for safety, quality and presentation. Complying with the Trust's catering policies and procedures and adhering to Food Safety regulations.

All catering staff will be expected to demonstrate a flexible attitude to their work and provide a high level of customer care when dealing with patients, visitors and staff.

We take pride in our Hotel Services Team the services we provide to our patients, staff and visitors, and in order to maintain our own high standards we are looking for reliable and enthusiastic staff to join our team at Chippenham Community Hospital.

Relevant qualifications and/or experience would be an advantage but are not essential as we will provide full training.

Responsibilities

• Prepare salads, sandwiches, sauces, soups and other basic food items.
• Undertake duties associated with providing a pre-prepared meal service. This will include summarising dish requirements, picking meal foils from the freezer, regenerating the food and confirming temperatures are compliant throughout.
• Make adjustments to menus at short notice to meet the needs of patients and their nutritional requirements.
• Communicate changes and shortages etc. with ward staff and patients to ensure all patients dietary requirements are fulfilled.
• Prepare and serve modified meals to patients that are on special diets in line with national requirements.
• Undertake clearing, machine and manual washing up and cleaning duties in accordance with departmental schedules and standards.

"Our STAR values – Service, Teamwork, Ambition and Respect – are a golden thread running through everything we do. These values serve as a guiding principle, driving us towards our vision of delivering great joined up services to our local community. Whether at home, in the community, or within the hospital, our goal is to empower individuals to lead independent and healthier lives."

Additional Responsibilities

• Receive, check and record deliveries for quantity, quality and temperature where applicable, then storing so that stock rotation and segregation procedures are followed.
• When necessary act as point of contact for the Supervisor in their absence, ensuring rotas are covered and all shifts are adequately staffed.
• Undertake service duties such as plating individual patient meals or bulk dishing into trolleys, ensuring departmental standards of time and temperature control are met. On sites which have staff/public dining facilities, undertake those service duties and operate the till where a cash system is in place.
• Cash handling and reconciliation of daily takings from retail outlets.

Please see the attached job description for full information.

This advert closes on Sunday 28 Dec 2025.