Catering Assistant Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Wigan Wrightington and Leigh Nhs Foundation Trust; Greater Manchester; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 30,000; Part time

Job summary

Join a dedicated team in the NHS as a Catering Assistant, where you will play a vital role in providing high-quality meal services to patients. This position offers the chance to work flexible hours, with opportunities for development and progression within the Catering Department. You will be part of a supportive environment that values staff happiness, ensuring that you can contribute to the well-being of patients. If you are enthusiastic about food service and want to make a difference in a busy healthcare setting, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Benefits

Excellent Pension & Life Assurance Package

Generous Annual Leave Entitlements

Birthday Leave

Paid Occupational Leave

Training Opportunities

Health and Wellbeing Support

Career Progression Opportunities

Access to Salary Sacrifice Schemes

NHS Discount Schemes

Long Service Awards

Qualifications

• Candidates should be enthusiastic and enjoy being part of a dynamic team.
• Experience in food preparation and safety standards is essential.

Responsibilities

• Prepare food and maintain cleanliness in kitchens and retail outlets.
• Serve meals to patients and staff while adhering to safety standards.

Skills

Food Preparation

Cleaning

Meal Service

Food Safety Compliance

Teamwork

Education

Basic Education

Tools

Kitchen Equipment

Cleaning Materials

Job description

The Catering Department are looking to recruit 2 Catering Assistants:

1. 1 working 30-hours per week, 6 hours a day, working 5 weekends out of 7. Hours of work will be 12.00 pm to 6.30 pm.
2. 1 working 20-hours per week, 4 hours a day, working 5 weekends out of 7. Hours of work will be 4.00 pm to 8.00 pm.

Rota patterns will be explained during the interview.

This is an excellent opportunity to join the NHS and help provide an excellent meal service to the patients of Wigan Infirmary. There are many fantastic opportunities for development and progression within the Catering Department. The successful candidates should be enthusiastic and enjoy being part of this dynamic team delivering a high-quality service.

Please be advised, applications are scored against the person specification detailed in the job advert. Candidates with the highest scores will be invited to the interviews. Please read the person specification and in your application (Supporting Information section) describe how you meet these criteria for the role.

Please note this vacancy may close earlier than the closing date if a high volume of applications is received.

You will work as part of a busy team working to tight timescales. You will be required to undertake a wide range of duties including:

1. Food preparation, cleaning, and meal service duties within the kitchens and retail outlets.
2. Completion of audit forms associated with food safety; financial policy & procedures.

Choose Well – Choose WWL. Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust are the proud providers of acute hospital and community services to the people of the Wigan Borough and surrounding areas. At WWL, we value our staff believing that ‘happy staff makes for happy patients’. We have a recognised track record in staff engagement and living our values.

WWL are committed to placing the patient at the heart of everything we do, and in the provision of safe, effective care that acknowledges and ensures dignity. We are seeking to recruit people who share our values and beliefs.

Good basic salary plus an attractive package of benefits which include:

• Excellent Pension & Life Assurance Package (over 20% employer contribution)
• Excellent annual leave entitlements 27 to 33 days per annum dependent upon service.
• Birthday Leave.
• Paid occupational maternity, paternity, and adoption leave dependent upon service.
• Training opportunities and eLearning resources.
• Health and wellbeing support.
• Career Progression opportunities within Estates & Facilities and the NHS.
• Access to salary sacrifice schemes for items such as lease vehicles and buy a bike schemes.
• NHS Discount schemes to access hundreds of discounts and savings from everything to High Street Stores to restaurants, family holidays and more.
• Long Service Awards.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Work to standard operational procedures.
2. Preparation of food, which could be within high-risk chilled areas, to specified recipes.
3. Ensuring labelling of products is correct e.g. product name dates.
4. After training, may be required to produce cooked foods e.g. soups, gravy, fried bacon etc.
5. Performance of duties in accordance with approved methods, frequencies, and standards, adhering to strict food safety standards.
6. Meeting deadlines for production of meals as part of a team.
7. May be required to take patient menu choices at ward level, offering alternatives where required.
8. Required to serve meals at ward level to patients, or in retail outlets to staff & visitors, occasional delivery of buffets & functions outside the Department.
9. Use of equipment, machinery, and cleaning materials once trained, ability to spot defects with fabric or machinery and report to Supervisor.
10. Significant cleaning duties associated with this post including cleaning of pans, cutlery, crockery, machinery, cooking equipment, and floors, walls, and work surfaces.
11. Recording temperatures and other key audit requirements onto the appropriate monitoring forms, reporting to Supervisors where temperatures may be outside required limits.
12. Maintain high standards of personal hygiene and follow the Departmental uniform code of practice.

This advert closes on Friday 20 Dec 2024.