Catering Assistant Multiskilled

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

Job summary

Join Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board as a Catering Assistant. In this role, you will support the Facilities team in delivering catering services, ensuring high standards of hygiene and service quality. You'll be responsible for food preparation, serving meals, and maintaining clean areas in a busy health environment.

Qualifications

• Previous experience in a catering role with a basic knowledge of catering practices.
• Knowledge of health and safety requirements in the workplace.

Responsibilities

• Prepare food and beverages according to Health Board policy.
• Assist nursing staff with meal services.
• Ensure catering areas are cleaned according to schedules.

Skills

Teamwork

Education

Good standard of general education (key skills level 2 in English and Mathematics or equivalent)

Job description

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Catering Assistant Multiskilled

The closing date is 01 July 2025

To support the Facilities (Hotel Services) team in delivering catering services to patients, staff and visitors in accordance with the Health Board Food Safety policy and all related and relevant policies, procedures and legislative requirements. To assist in developing, maintaining and promoting the highest standards of service delivery, supporting, team working practices and the Facilities Unit commitment to EFQMS; and helping to maintain open and effective communications.

The post holder will work either as part of the ward based catering team or as part of the Main Kitchen catering team and will be responsible for food preparation or regeneration, meal service and cleaning of all catering areas.

Main duties of the job

The Principal Duties of the job are as follows:

• To prepare food and beverages in accordance with Health Board policy, procedures and legislative requirements;
• To assist nursing staff with meal service at ward level;
• To serve beverages at ward level in accordance with patient requests;
• To serve staff and customers in the dining room providing a professional and polite service;
• To operate the cash register accurately;
• To ensure all catering areas are cleaned in accordance with daily and weekly cleaning schedules.
• In the event of a major incident or to support adverse weather or other Facilities services contingency, the post holder may be required to be called in outside of normal working hours to support the Facilities Services in the contingency actions when and where required.

The duties of this post are not inflexible or exhaustive and will be reviewed periodically and may be changed to be consistent with the grading of the post as the organisation or department develops and following consultation with the post holder.

About us

Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family. Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf.

We live by our core values:

• We listen, learn and improve
• We treat everyone with respect
• We all work together as one team

We are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 15000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.

Job responsibilities

You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click Apply now to view in Trac.

Person Specification

Skills and Attributes

• Ability to work effectively as part of a team

Experience

• Previous experience in a catering role with a basic knowledge of catering practices

Qualifications and Knowledge

• Good standard of general education (i.e. key skills level 2 in English and Mathematics or equivalent)
• Knowledge of health and safety in the work place along with specific legislative requirements covered during induction training. This will include Food Safety Act 1990, Food Hygiene (Wales) Legislation 2006, Food Handling policies and procedures, COSHH and HACCP procedures.

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.

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