Ward Waitress/Waiter Bank | The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust

Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust; Wolverhampton; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 22,000; Full time

Job summary

A large NHS trust in the West Midlands is seeking dedicated staff to serve meals to patients, ensuring quality and temperature standards. You will assist with meal preparation, cleaning, and stock rotation in a supportive team environment. The role offers flexible working arrangements, and full training will be provided. Join us in making a positive impact on patient care.

Qualifications

• Ability to work as part of a team providing high standards of service.
• Cooperative with cleaning and stock rotation tasks.
• Basic culinary skills for food preparation.

Responsibilities

• Serve patients’ meals with quality presentation.
• Assist in regeneration and distribution of meals.
• Monitor and record fridge/freezer temperatures.

Job description

Overview

Want to make a positive difference to our Patients day? Working as part of a much larger Catering team, your role will be to serve the Patient’s meals on the ward at lunch and supper time services. You will have a direct impact on the quality and service standards our patients deserve, by re-heating, presenting and serving fresh, quality prepared meals and desserts along with providing a range of alternative dishes for patients on special diets. We are an 800 patient acute hospital and are offering you the chance to join our team in delivering our service. We have vacancies for early evening shifts now available. Full training will be given in this role and there may be wider opportunities to work in other areas of the catering department, if required.

We pride ourselves on the quality of our food and service and if you feel you can and want to deliver the above, why not apply today to join our team.

Responsibilities

• To work as a member of the team ensuring a high standard of service to patients in quality presentation and correct temperature.
• To clean the ward beverages fridges as per the schedule.
• To assist in the regeneration and distribution of patients’ meals, and any associated tasks.
• To practice stock rotations, at ward level, and ensure the dates of all stock is checked regularly.
• To check stocks of supplies held at ward level and liaise with Supervisors so that adequate stock levels are maintained.
• To collect food pods from designated areas.
• To carry out basic food preparation, eg. making custard & gravy.
• To monitor and record fridge/freezer temperatures.
• To collect and wash patient crockery after each meal service.
• To clean ward kitchens and prepare equipment ready for the next meal service.

About the Trust

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS trusts in the West Midlands, providing primary, acute and community services. We are incredibly proud of the diversity of both our staff and the communities we serve. We are building a workforce that can help us fulfil our values, improve the quality of care for patients, and solve the health care problems of tomorrow. We’re passionate about the value that diversity of thinking and lived experience brings in enabling us to become a learning organisation and leader in delivering compassionate care for our patients.

We are delighted to have been rated as “Good” by CQC. We have achieved numerous awards, including The Nursing Times Best Diversity and Inclusion Practice and Best UK Employer of the Year for Nursing Staff in 2020.

The Trust is a supportive working environment committed to creating flexible working arrangements that suit your needs and as such will consider all requests from applicants who wish to work flexibly.

Please see attached Job Description/Person Specification for a full detail of role and main responsibilities.

This advert closes on Tuesday 30 Sep 2025.