Restaurant Catering Assistant

Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust; Redhill; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in the UK is looking for an enthusiastic team player for a catering role at East Surrey Hospital. This position involves food preparation and serving meals to over 750 patients daily, while maintaining high hygiene standards. Previous catering experience is preferred, but training will be provided. Applicants should have excellent customer service skills and be flexible in their approach to work. Compliance with food safety policies is essential, making this a vital role in delivering quality service.

Qualifications

• Enthusiastic and motivated team player.
• Flexible approach to work and excellent customer service.
• Previous catering experience is an advantage but not essential.

Responsibilities

• Food preparation and serving customers.
• Maintaining hygiene standards and cleaning to a high level.
• Comply with food safety policies and procedures.

Job description

Job Overview

We are looking for an enthusiastic motivated team player with a flexible approach to work and excellent customer service. This role is based in the busy catering department at East Surrey hospital where we serve meals to over 750 patients three times a day and serve customers in the Three Arches restaurant. The role involves food preparation and serving customers, so maintaining the hygiene standards and cleaning to a high level is very important, along with ensuring good stock rotation. A high standard of customer care is essential. You will be required to comply with food safety policies, procedures and current legislation, so previous catering experience would be an advantage, but not essential, as training will be provided. All positions will need to ensure you give a high quality; professional service to staff and visitors at all times. The role does include a degree of manual handling, with stock replenishment and delivering of functions.

Working for our organisation

We provide emergency and non-emergency services to the residents of East Surrey, North-East West Sussex, and South Croydon, including the major towns of Crawley, Horsham, Reigate and Redhill; a community of over 535,000 people. We provide acute and complex services and a range of outpatient, diagnostic services whilst Crawley Hospital and Horsham in West Sussex and Caterham Dene Hospital and Oxted Health Centre in Surrey provide less complex planned services. In 2019 the Care Quality Commission (CQC) rated our services as 'Outstanding' and we are one of the best performing Trusts in England:

• Winners of Health Service Journal Acute Trust of the year award 2021
• National Patient Safety Awards winner and strive to be a beacon for safety in all that we do
• We are in the top 20% nationally for staff recommending the Trust as a place to work or receive treatment
• Our staff rate us the best in the country among comparable acute trusts when asked if they would recommend the Trust as a place to work and when asked whether care of patients is the organisation's top priority
• Our workforce are amongst the most motivated in the country; we achieved the top acute hospital score in the country for staff engagement in the last national staff survey, Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust operates a 24-hour service, 365 days a year. As such, all nursing, clinical, and operational roles may involve working on a 24/7 shift basis, unless otherwise specified during the recruitment process.

We are proud of our diverse and inclusive workforce and actively encourage applications irrespective of age, disability, gender, race and ethnicity, religion or belief and sexual orientation. We can make reasonable adjustments and offer support and advice in a variety of ways throughout the application process.

Successful candidates will be appointed to the first pay step within the band when they start with the Trust (unless they have previous relevant NHS continuous service), thereafter individuals will progress up the pay steps in accordance with NHS Agenda for Change (AfC) terms and conditions. For part time roles you will receive a pro rata'd (proportional) salary payment based on the appropriate pay step/point and hours worked in accordance with AfC and all medical and dental terms and conditions.

Note: Some vacancies may receive a high volume of applications. In such cases, the vacancy may close earlier than the advertised closing date. We encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

We take our responsibilities to the environment extremely seriously and have an ambitious Green Plan that we're delivering. Actions include having uniforms made from recycled plastic, 100% renewable electricity and planting 150 trees at East Surrey Hospital. Read our plan here.