Menu Clerk Band 2

Lincolnshire Community and Hospitals NHS Group; Lincoln; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

Lincolnshire Community and Hospitals NHS Group is seeking two Menu Clerks at Lincoln County Hospital. The roles involve coordinating menu requests from wards to kitchen distribution areas and liaising with external customers.

The posts operate on a seven-day rota including Saturdays and Sundays, with 6.45am–3.00pm shifts and a 45-minute unpaid lunch break. An exciting electronic meal ordering system project is upcoming.

Qualifications

• Co ordinating menu requests from wards to distribution areas.

Responsibilities

• Co-ordinate menu requests from wards to distribution areas of the Main Kitchen.
• Liaise with external customers for their orders.
• Handle contact with wards by email or telephone.
• Support introduction of an electronic meal ordering system.

Skills

Communication skills

Organisation

Job description

The Central Production Unit (Main Kitchen) of Lincoln County Hospital are looking to recruit two Menu Clerks following the promotion of the current post holder.

The post holders will work opposite each other working seven days 7.5 hours days including working Saturday and Sunday and 7 days off.

Hours of work will be 6.45am - 3.00 pm with a 45 minute unpaid lunch break.

The main duties of the jobs is co ordinating the menu requests from the wards to the distribution areas of the Main Kitchen.

Liaising with our external customers for their orders.

Much of our contact with the wards if either by email or telephone.

In the near future the Trust are going to implement and electronic meal ordering system which will be an exciting new project for us all.

Lincoln Hospital is a thriving university city and with the opening of the medical school, it provides all major specialties and a 24-hour major accident and emergency service.

United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust has been granted teaching hospital status, after demonstrating evidence to significant teaching commitment. From now on it will be known as United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.

Pilgrim Hospital is situated in beautiful countryside and serves the communities in the South Lincolnshire area. It provides all major specialties and a 24-hour major accident and emergency service.

Grantham and District Hospital serves the communities of Grantham and the local area. It provides ambulatory paediatric and accident and emergency services.

Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust (LCHS) and United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust (ULHT) have come together in a Group arrangement, with the goal of improving the care provided to patients across the county.

This will not constitute a formal merger of the two organisations, but will bring the Trusts together under a single Board and Executive Leadership Team, with the goal of improving the care that is provided to patients both in the community and in hospitals across Lincolnshire. Both Trusts will retain their separate statutory names and legal obligations.

The Group will be known as Lincolnshire Community and Hospitals NHS Group (LCHG).

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Patricia Hopkins Job title: Team Leader Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 01522 573071

Patricia Hopkins 01522 573071