Catering Assistants

Salisbury Nhs Foundation Trust; Southampton; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 24,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

NHS discounts

35 days paid holiday pro rata

Pension scheme

On-site car parking

Leisure centre

Day nursery

Holiday play scheme

Job summary

Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a motivated Catering Assistant to join our friendly team. You will deliver and collect food trolleys, serve meals to patients, staff and visitors, and maintain hygiene standards in a busy hospital environment.

The role offers part-time hours (30 per week) with flexible scheduling, opportunities to work across kitchen and wash-up areas, and access to NHS benefits such as discounts, holiday entitlement pro rata, and a generous pension scheme.

Qualifications

• Experience in a catering or hospitality setting is desirable.
• Ability to work as part of a team in a high-paced hospital environment.
• Commitment to cleanliness and food safety standards.

Responsibilities

• Deliver and collect food trolleys to ward areas.
• Serve meals to patients, staff and visitors.
• Carry out cleaning duties and operate the dishwasher.
• Assist with basic food preparation as required.
• Work in kitchen and wash-up areas and maintain hygiene standards.
• Provide flexible cover to meet service needs.

Skills

Customer service

Team player

Flexible hours

Food safety

Job description

We are seeking to appoint a motivated and enthusiastic Catering assistant to work as part of our friendly team at Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust, providing catering services to patients staff and visitors. The post would involve delivering and collecting food trolleys to ward areas, serving meals, cleaning, dishwasher operation and assisting with the basic food preparation that may be required for the day.Other jobs would include working in the kitchen and wash up area and carrying out general cleaning duties to maintain the required Hygiene Standards.You should also have the ability to work flexible hours covering colleagues during annual leave or sickness if required.

Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust (SFT) is an innovative hospital with a proud heritage and over 250 years of experience behind us. Here we're driven to deliver an outstanding experience for everyone and have been well regarded for the quality of care and treatment we continue to provide for our patients and also our staff.

We are an acute Trust, rated "Good" by the CQC, with a track record of high performance providing regional and super regional specialist services such as: Burns, Plastics & Reconstructive Surgery, Wessex Regional Genetics Laboratory, Wessex Rehabilitation, Spires Cleft Centre and the Duke of Cornwall Spinal Treatment Centre. We have about 470 beds and employ over 4000 staff., Salisbury is an attractive place to live and work and really gives you the best of everything. With easy access to London and local airports, the city of Southampton is only a short train or car journey away or if you prefer the sea, Bournemouth is also accessible. Don't just take our word for it, why not explore what Salisbury has to offer by visiting www.experiencesalisbury.co.uk

Are you professional, friendly and responsive to new ways of working and ideas? Do you or would you enjoy working with customers /patients? We've an excellent opportunity to develop a rewarding catering career with us at Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust.

1 x part time permanent 30 hours per week, We support flexible working and will consider requests taking into account the needs of the service. We think working here is rewarding.

• you can access a range of NHS discounts, receive a minimum of 35 days paid holiday (pro rata), and we offer a generous pension scheme.
• On-site benefits include car parking (fee applies), leisure center, day nursery and holiday play scheme.