Food Services Assistant

Bupa Healthcare; England; On-site; GBP 10,000 - 40,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in the UK is currently seeking a Food Services Assistant to join their team. The role involves providing exceptional customer service, serving meals, and maintaining high food presentation standards at a care home. Applicants should have experience in a customer-facing role and a Basic Food Hygiene Certificate. The position offers flexible part-time shifts, competitive hourly pay, and various employee benefits to enhance wellbeing, including free healthcare support and access to discounts.

Benefits

Free healthcare access

Annual healthcare allowance

Wagestream for early wage access

28 days holiday

Sick pay scheme

Free meal on every shift

Interest-free travel loan

Parental leave schemes

Access to gym discounts

Qualifications

• Experience in a customer-facing environment is required.
• Candidates must hold a Basic Food Hygiene Certificate.
• Comfortable communicating with residents and teammates.

Responsibilities

• Provide excellent customer service to all residents.
• Ensure high-quality food presentation at all times.
• Serve meals and drinks to residents in dining areas.
• Clean the dining area ensuring it is tidy and presentable.
• Serve refreshments outside of meal times as required.

Skills

Excellent customer service

Communication skills

Basic Food Hygiene Certificate

Job description

Food Services Assistant

Freelands Croft Care Home Redfields Lane Church Crookham Fleet GU52 0AD

CQC rating: Good

rating: 9.6

12.60- 13.60 per hour depending on experience

Permanent contact: Part time - 3 or 4 shifts per week 10am-4pm alternate weekends.

We make health happen

Here at Bupa we support those when they need it the most. Our care homes are dedicated to delivering person-centred care supporting independence and honouring choice to help our residents live their best lives.

Youll help us make health happen by :

• Providing excellent customer service to all our residents
• Ensuring high quality food presentation at all times
• Serving meals and drinks to residents in the dining areas and to their rooms
• Cleaning of the dining area ensuring its tidy and presentable
• Serving refreshments outside of meal times to residents, relatives and visitors as required

Key Skills / Qualifications needed for this role

Experience in a customer facing environment with a Basic Food Hygiene Certificate you want to deliver an excellent service to make our residents feel at home. You’ll understand the importance of maintaining high standards in and around the home ensuring our residents enjoy a pleasant dining experience. Comfortable communicating with others - nothing is too much trouble you’re always happy to help the wider team cherishing the little moments with our residents.

Benefits

Our benefits are designed to make health happen for our people. Viva is our global wellbeing programme and includes all aspects of our health from mental and physical to financial social and environmental wellbeing. We support flexible working and have a range of family friendly benefits.

Joining Bupa in this role you will receive the following benefits and more :

• My Healthcare - Free access to 24 / 7 support advice and treatment for a variety of health-related issues including remote GP appointments physiotherapy and mental health support
• Annual allowance which you can redeem against a menu of Bupa healthcare products all to the approximate value of 350
• Wagestream - Have early access to up to 40% of your earned wages within minutes
• 28 days holiday
• We offer a sick pay scheme to our frontline teams as an addition to statutory sick pay to help provide some reassurance and financial support during longer absences.
• Long service - For every milestone at Bupa we will reward you with ecards extra holidays and money!
• Free meal on every shift
• Interest-free annual travel loan to enable the purchase of public transport annual season tickets
• We offer a range of Bupa pension plans find out more on our career site
• Parental leave - We have schemes for adoption birth parents and co parents -find out more on our career site
• Menopause Plan - Specifically designed to empower women to seek advice choose their treatment and take control of their health
• Access to discounts at a wide variety of gyms and fitness facilities across the UK

Why Bupa

We’re a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders our customers are our focus. Our people are all driven by the same purpose helping people live longer healthier happier lives and making a better world. We make health happen by being brave caring and responsible in everything we do.

We encourage all of our people to Be you at Bupa we champion diversity and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve. That’s why we especially encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.

Bupa is a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer. This means we aim to offer an interview / assessment to every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the role. We will make sure you are treated fairly and offer reasonable adjustments as part of our recruitment process to anyone that needs them.

Please note this role is not at or above RQF Level 3 and is not included under the UKs Points Based Immigration System for sponsorship by an employer.

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Employment Type: Hourly

Experience: years

Vacancy: 1

Hourly Salary Salary: 12 - 13