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NHS; London; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

An NHS Trust seeks a Catering Assistant to provide quality food service for staff and patients. Responsibilities include preparing and serving meals, ensuring compliance with food safety standards, and maintaining hygiene. Ideal candidates will have catering qualifications and experience in a busy environment.

Qualifications

• Experience in catering and food preparation.
• Knowledge of dietary and nutritional requirements.
• Ability to work in a diverse environment.

Responsibilities

• Prepare and cook meals ensuring quality and safety.
• Assist in ordering and menu preparation.
• Maintain hygiene and compliance with regulations.

Skills

Manual handling

Follow instructions

Teamwork

Education

Catering qualification

Basic Food Hygiene

Job description

To provide meals staff and patient meals as directed by the Supervisor/manager

To provide a customer focused, quality food service

Preparing, cooking, and serving of meals as instructed, working in partnership with the Trust dietician and therapists

Toensure availability of required diets.

To take part in initiatives relating to improving services within the department in delivering the NHS plan objectives

To ensure food items are presented in line with Food Safety Regulations and Trust policy

To ensure the quality, presentation, and temperature of food on offer within the restaurant

Hospitality

To work, as part of a team in the provision of Catering Services to Staff, Visitors and Patients, ensuring the service provided is customer focused.

To work in a safe and hygienic manner, ensuring the highest standard of food safety.

To maintain the highest standard of personal and professional presentation

To allocate duties to staff under your supervision.

Main duties of the job

1.1 To comply with safe working practices as directed

1.2 To assist in the preparation of menus including the ordering of produce as required, ensuring that quality, quantity, temperature, and appearance of the completed dishes are of the highest possible standard.

1.3 To ensure that deliveries are received, checked, and securely stored in the agreed manner, ensuring compliance with the departments stock rotation policy for food and non-food items

1.4 To undertake preparation and/or cooking of specialised meals, dietetic meals as required, by the Clinical Nutritionists.

1.5 To ensure compliance in the preparation and portioning of food items for patients, staff and functions as required.

1.6 To ensure appropriate garnishes are made available for meal service as required.

1.7 To liaise with ward staff, patients, and customers.

1.8 To record meal temperatures as instructed by the head chef/Manager.

1.9 To work in a safe manner, keeping work areas clean at all times.

About us

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.

Job responsibilities

To comply with safe working practices as directed

1.2 To assist in the preparation of menus including the ordering of produce as required, ensuring that quality, quantity, temperature, and appearance of the completed dishes are of the highest possible standard.

1.3 To ensure that deliveries are received, checked, and securely stored in the agreed manner, ensuring compliance with the departments stock rotation policy for food and non-food items.

1.4 To undertake preparation and/or cooking of specialised meals, dietetic meals as required, by the Clinical Nutritionists.

1.5 To ensure compliance in the preparation and portioning of food items for patients, staff and functions as required.

1.6 To ensure appropriate garnishes are made available for meal service as required.

1.7 To liaise with ward staff, patients, and customers.

1.8 To record meal temperatures as instructed by the head chef/Manager.

1.9 To work in a safe manner, keeping work areas clean at all times.

1.10 To comply with the departments Cleaning Schedules and Hygiene controls.

1.11 To report faults, breakages or potential hazards of equipment or fabric of the Hospital to the Estates Help desk.

1.12 To attend training courses on and off the job

1.13 To ensure most efficient use of energy and utilities in the provision of the Catering Service in achieving energy efficient targets for the Service.

1.14 To undertake extra duties, commensurate with the duties of this job description as directed by departmental managers.

1.15 To complete Quality and Hygiene Monitoring control forms and records as required

1.16 To assist in the provision of special events, hospitalities and/or theme days

1.17 To maintain set standards of food and personal hygiene and personal appearance in accordance with the department's hygiene policy.

1.18 To ensure the service meets agreed service levels in respect of quality, quantity, presentation, and Food Safety standards, (General Food Hygiene) Regulations 1995.

1.19 To comply with the departments Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point procedure.

1.20 To undertake staff appraisal within agreed guidelines

1.21 To work with minimum supervision and be prepared to undertake any other duties appropriate to the grade and post.

Person Specification

Skills

• Ability to undertake the manual handling requirements of the role
• Ability to follow instructions and procedures
• Able to work to set production timescales.
• Able to work as a member of a team, also with minimum supervision

Knowledge

• Health and Safety at work requirements.
• Principles and benefits of Healthy Eating.
• Knowledge of dietary and nutritional requirements
• Knowledge and understanding of Equal Opportunity principle and practice.
• Awareness of sustainable Environmental initiatives relating to the work environment

Experience

• Ability to prepare and present meals to set standards
• Able to work within a diverse organisation
• Experience of working in a busy catering environment

Qualifications

• Catering qualification - or equivalent training/experience.
• Basic Food Hygiene or equivalent

Personal Qulaities

• Able to comply with all aspects of food hygiene legislation and practices
• Self reliant, motivated
• Flexible to the needs of the service
• Able to organise and plan own workload
• Pragmatic approach with the ability to "get things done"; within agreed time table
• Ability to communicate effectively with staff at all levels.
• Pleasant and affable personality.
• High standard of kitchen hygiene and tidiness.

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.

£30,039 to £31,088 a yearper annum inclusive of HCAs