Catering Assistant - Liverpool Women's Hospital

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; West Kirby; On-site; GBP 19,000 - 23,000; Full time

Job summary

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking staff to join its catering team at Liverpool Women’s Hospital. Duties include preparing and plating hot and cold foods, delivering meals to patients, visitors and staff, and maintaining food temperatures and equipment checks.

The role emphasizes strong communication, reliability, and a patient-centered service mindset to ensure a high-quality dining experience in a busy NHS environment.

Qualifications

• Experience in food service or catering is helpful.
• Good communication (written and verbal) and a customer-focused approach.
• Reliable, organised and approachable with a positive attitude.

Responsibilities

• Preparation 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.
• Good communication (written & verbal)
• Approachable
• Organised
• Reliable

Skills

Good communication

Customer service

Reliability

Organised

Job description

• Working hours: 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.,
• 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.
• Good communication (written & verbal)
• Approachable
• Organised
• Reliable

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.