Food Production Assistant

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 23,000; Full time

Job summary

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust is seeking a dedicated Catering and Cleaning Assistant to support central kitchen operations and outlying catering outlets across City Hospital, Queen's Medical Centre or Ropewalk House. You will ensure food safety, assist with meal production, and help deliver meals to wards with attentiveness to dietary requirements.

The role involves high-standard cleaning, stock control, and adherence to Food Safety Regulations, contributing to NUH's patient-centred

Qualifications

• Knowledge of Food Safety Regulations and Food Hygiene Regulations.
• Experience in hospital catering or similar food preparation environment is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Assists with food production and portioning according to standard recipes.
• Adheres to HACCP data collection, stock rotation and food deliveries quality checks.
• Prepares meals, seals, labels, chills and blasts foods while considering patient dietary needs.
• Receives, unloads, cleans and stores meal trolleys; delivers food to wards and departments.
• Maintains high cleaning standards in CPU and catering units; reports maintenance issues.

Skills

Food handling

Food safety awareness

Teamwork

Job description

The post-holder will be responsible for providing a catering and cleaning service within the Central Production Kitchen (CPU) and outlying catering outlets.

The post-holder will assist with the production of all meals with the Central Production Kitchen (CPU) and other outlying catering units within the department.

The post-holder will also be required to provide a catering service in accordance with the Food Safety Regulations and Food Hygiene Regulations.

The post holder will have their main base of work on either campus, City Hospital, Queen's Medical Centre or Ropewalk House however there may be occasions to cover another area.

Amongst other tasks, the post holder will be required to ebsure:

• Food Safetyprocedure adherence and recording HACCP data; receiving, quality checking and storing deliveries; monitoring and exercising stock rotation.
• Food Productionpreparation according to standard recipes; support food production tp the catering team; portioning of foods; sealing, labelling, chilling and blast freezing of food; be aware of patient special dietary requirements and that these are followed.
• Food Service Preparationby receiving / unloading / cleaning / storage of meal trolleys; loading of meal trolleys in preparation for each meal service; delivering food to wards and departments as required.
• Cleaningis provided to a high standard in the CPU and other catering units (walls, floors, doors, surfaces, gullies / drains, fixtures and fittings; perform deep cleaning tasks as required; replenishing of cleaning materials; reporting any maintenance issues; emptying of bins and disposal of boxes and waste; use wet scrub machinery; stripping and cleaning of slicing machinery; use and clean deep fat machine as required.

With over 19,000 staff, we are one of the biggest employers in the city with a central role in supporting the health and wellbeing of our local population. We play a leading role in research, education and innovation.

Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!

We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.