Inpatient Catering Assistant

The Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust; Wakefield; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 23,000; Full time

Job summary

The Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust is recruiting for a Catering Assistant role based at Pinderfields Hospital, with duties across Dewsbury and Pontefract Hospitals as required.

You will provide a safe, hygienic, nutritious and timely food service for patients, ensuring HACCP compliance and adherence to Trust Food Safety Policy. The role requires flexibility to work across-site catering and a 37.5-hour week on a 5 over 7 rota.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of regulatory catering hygiene requirements.
• Ability to follow written and given instructions.
• Previous experience in a commercial catering environment.
• Awareness of health and safety and COSHH regulations.
• Level Two Food Hygiene certificate or IEHO is required.

Responsibilities

• Ensure smooth running of the food preparation and serving areas for patients.
• Willingness to work within other areas of the catering department to maintain continuity of service.
• Observe food hygiene legislation and Trust Food Safety Policy (HACCP) at all times.

Skills

Food hygiene knowledge

Follow instructions

Education

Level Two Food Hygiene certificate or IEHO - Basic Food Hygiene Certificate

Job description

Please note that this role is not on the Home Office list of occupations eligible for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker route.

The Catering Department at Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust is looking to recruit a highly motivated and enthusiastic team member to join our fast paced and friendly team primarily based based at Pinderfields Hospital but MUST be available to work across all sites including Dewsbury and Pontefract Hospitals as and when required.

You will provide a safe, hygienic, nutritious and timely food service for patients.

Your duties will be varied and no day will ever be the same. You will play an integral role within the team in ensuring that the food prepared and delivered is of the highest quality and the department is cleaned to the highest standard.

There is 1 full time position as follows -

37.5 hours per week - 5 over 7 3 week rota earlies starting at 7.30 to 15.30 and lates 11.30 till 19.30.

Main duties of the job

Working as part of a team, the successful candidate will be responsible for ensuring the smooth running of the food preparation and serving areas for patients.

A willingness to work within other areas of the catering department essential to ensure continuity of service.

Ensuring that food hygiene legislation and the Trust Food Safety Policy (HACCP) are observed at all times.

About us

We are an acute trust caring for over one million people in Wakefield and Kirklees. Our 10,000 staff work in patients homes, the community, and our three hospitals in Pontefract, Dewsbury, and Pinderfields (Wakefield). We prioritise our people and values so we can deliver the best possible care to patients. Our team is friendly, passionate, and innovative, always seeking better ways to work.

We support work-life balance and foster a diverse, inclusive environment where everyone belongs. Our staff networks offer safe spaces to share ideas and concerns so we can increase awareness and appreciation of equality, diversity, and inclusion. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and especially encourage members of the LGBTQ+ community, ethnic minority groups, and people with disabilities or neurodivergence to apply, as they are currently underrepresented in the Trust.

If you value caring, high standards, improvement, and respect, join the MY team to make a difference every day.

Job responsibilities

• An awareness of all regulatory catering hygiene requirements.
• Good food preparation skills. Able to follow written and given instructions.
• Previous experience of working in a commercial catering environment. Allergen Training.
• To be able to fulfil the physical demands of the role.
• Level Two Food Hygiene certificate or IEHO - (Basic Food Hygiene Certificate).
• Awareness of health and safety, handling and lifting. COSHH regulations.
• Able to work with minimum supervision.
• Previous experience of working in a commercial catering environment. Allergen Training.
• To be able to fulfil the physical demands of the role.
• Level Two Food Hygiene certificate or IEHO - (Basic Food Hygiene Certificate).

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.