Job summary
- Main area
- Catering
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 2
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (6.30am - 10.30am on a rota)
- Hours
- Part time - 20 hours per week (on a rota)
- Job ref
- 370-ADM2CAT-108
- Employer
- Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Warrington Hospital
- Town
- Warrington
- Salary
- £22,383 Pro rata
- Salary period
- Hourly
- Closing
- 12/07/2024 23:59
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Menu Clerk
NHS AfC: Band 2
Job overview
To communicate on a daily basis with patients, nursing staff and colleagues. Contact with nursing staff & patients may be either face to face within the hospital or by the receiving of telephone requests into the department for extra meals or special diets.
Main duties of the job
1.To collate menu card information manually over bank holidays when menus are changed and cards not completed.
2.Check all special diet requests ensuring patients have ordered appropriate meal choices and altering choices where necessary.
3.Collate special supplementary menus daily and provide the information to the cooks.
4.Telephone wards that do not complete menu cards on a daily basis to ascertain meal numbers and any special requirements.
5.Complete patient questionnaire’s with patients.
6.Carry out photocopying of menu cards. .
7.Carry out Typing, photocopying and filing, this would include ward kitchen audits.
8.Use the Menumark computer software system daily to collate and generate information from the patient menus.
Working for our organisation
Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is a caring and compassionate organisation that is both ambitious and innovative. We are committed to delivering the best outcomes for our patients and providing a positive experience of our staff. We aspire to be outstanding for our patients, our communities and our staff and are committed to being a great place to receive healthcare, work and learn.
Straddling the neighbouring boroughs of Warrington and Halton we are part of the Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care system. Our hospitals are ideally situated to meet the growing healthcare needs of the 330,000 population of these boroughs.
Warrington Hospital is home to our emergency, critical care and maternity services, Halton Hospital is focused on elective procedures and the Runcorn Urgent Treatment Centre, although many services are offered at both sites and in community hubs.
A CQC-rated ‘good’ organisation with ‘outstanding’ features, we are working towards university hospital status, having achieved teaching hospital status in 2019.
Our workforce of nearly 5,000 across both sites comprises more than 50 nationalities. We strive to be an equal, diverse and inclusive employer, which is recognised as a pioneer in its equality, diversity and inclusion work. The Trust is proud to have achieved numerous external accreditations and is working towards achieving the Anti-Racist Organisation Framework, recognising the importance of anti-racism in all that we do.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To liaise with the relevant supervisors regarding requests for special diets and any other issues with the patient menu cards.
To raise any queries with special diets with the hospital dietitians to ensure patients receive the correct diet.
To communicate on a daily basis with patients, nursing staff and colleagues. Contact with nursing staff & patients may be either face to face within the hospital or by the receiving of telephone requests into the department for extra meals or special diets.
To liaise with Managers and Supervisors daily and act upon any specific tasks required.
Report any equipment faults or Health and safety issues to the supervisors as and when they may arise.
Visit wards when required to resolve any issues or problems with the patient menu card system.
FULL JOB DESCRIPTION ATTACHED
Person specification
Interview
Essential criteria
- Catering Experience
- 2 Years
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of allergens
Interview
Essential criteria
- Computer skills
Desirable criteria
- Flexible
Interview
Essential criteria
- Must be able to work on own initiative, prioritizing tasks.
Desirable criteria
- Must be able to work on own initiative, prioritizing tasks.
Interview
Essential criteria
- physically fit
Desirable criteria
- Excellent communication
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Joanne Marshall
- Job title
- Catering Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01925662123
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