Catering Assistant - Liverpool Women's Hospital

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Grimsby; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 24,000; Full time

Job summary

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Liverpool Women's Hospital are hiring a Catering Assistant to join the NHS catering team. The post is full time with shifts 07:00 to 15:00, Tuesday to Friday, at Liverpool Women's Hospital.

The closing date is 10 November 2026 and training will be provided. Responsibilities include food preparation, plating and service to patients, visitors and staff, beverage service, temperature checks, and maintaining cleanliness in kitchen areas in line

Qualifications

• Previous catering experience
• Previous industrial catering experience
• Previous use of cleaning machinery, dishwashing or panwashing machinery

Responsibilities

• Provide localised catering service observing health, safety and hygiene procedures.
• Deliver food to patients, visitors and staff and communicate requirements to the catering department.
• Prepare patient meal trays and beverages, check temperatures and record equipment temps.
• Maintain cleanliness of kitchen and related areas according to schedules.
• Assist with stock orders and receipt of goods for the department.
• Support the catering supervisor and participate in training as required.

Skills

Data inputting

Barista

Education

Level 2 Food Hygiene Certificate or equivalent

Job description

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Catering Assistant - Liverpool Women's Hospital

The closing date is 10 November 2026

**Please note this is a full time position, working hours are as follow:

07.00am - 15:00pm working Tuesday to Friday

This is an exciting time to join our Catering Team for the NHS at Liverpool Women's Hospital.

We have available post working within our Costa outlet, ensuring that we provide an excellent food and patient experience.

• Approachable
• Organised
• Reliable

Main duties of the job

• preperation of food
• Plating and service of cold and hot food items with meal delivery to patients visitors and staff, including service of condiments.
• Probing and recording food temperatures. Recording of equipment temperatures.
• Beverage service to patients visitors and staff.
• To take the customer orders and communicate the requirements to the catering department.

About us

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises Aintree University Hospital, Liverpool Women's Hospital Broadgreen Hospital & Royal Liverpool University Hospital.

We are part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, formed on 1 Nov 2024 from the coming together of LUHFT and Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust. The Group was born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide our patients.

For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, we are their local NHS. We provide general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services for more than two million people in the North West.

Aintree University Hospitalis the single receiving site for adult major trauma patients in Cheshire and Merseyside and hosts a number of regional services including an award-winning stroke facility.Broadgreen Hospitalis home to elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation.Liverpool Women's Hospital specialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK's largest single site maternity hospital each year. The Royal Liverpool University Hospitalis the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single bedrooms and focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.

Job responsibilities

• To provide a localised catering service observing health, safety and hygiene procedures and maintaining high standards in all aspects.
• To deliver good principles of customer care ensuring helpfulness, awareness and compassion to patients, visitors, staff and colleagues.
• Regeneration of chilled/frozen food and preparation of sauces.
• Preparation of patient meal trays.
• Plating and service of cold and hot food items with meal delivery to patients, including service of condiments.
• Probing and recording food temperatures. Recording of equipment temperatures.
• Beverage service to patients. Washing and refilling of patients water jugs and beakers.
• To take the patient orders and communicate the requirements to the catering department.
• Clearing of meal trays, crockery and cutlery for all food areas.
• Collection, segregation and disposal of catering waste materials.
• Cleaning duties within the kitchen and other associated areas in accordance with departmental cleaning schedules to include equipment, work surfaces crockery and cutlery.
• Ordering and receipt of goods from the main catering production unit in accordance with the agreed stock requirements ensuring adequate stock levels are maintained.
• Completion of catering department procedural paperwork such as temperature checks and monitoring.
• To undertake training as required to fulfil this role and any further training which will enhance both personal effectiveness and also the delivery of high standards of service.
• To work co-operatively with colleagues as part of the team and perform additional duties as and when directed by the catering supervisor.

Person Specification

Experience

• Previous catering experience
• Previous industrial catering experience
• Previous use of cleaning machinery, Dishwashing or panwashing machinery

Skills

• Data inputting
• Experienced Barista

Knowledge

• Numeracy and literacy skills
• Knowledge of Health & Safety
• Understanding of the importance of good food hygiene
• Barista training
• Knowledge of cash till systems

Qualifications

• Level 2 Food Hygience Certificate or equivalent
• Food/Hygience certificate

Other

• This post is open to employees of the five LAASP organisations

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.

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust