Job summary
Employer heading
Bank - Catering Assistant
NHS AfC: Band 2
Job overview
Involved in the preparation and service of meals to patients, Staff & Visitors.
Required to undertake a wide range of cleaning and monitoring duties associated with maintaining food hygiene within the main kitchens, ward kitchens, dining room and coffee shops.
Ensuring that at all times a high-quality service provision is offered, maintaining trust values.
Successful candidates can choose from shifts at Aintree, Broadgreen and Royal Liverpool Hospitals.
Main duties of the job
- Planning and organisational tasks/duties
- Work as directed by catering supervisors in accordance with local procedures
- Work within strict timeframes
- Participate as a team member
- Be prepared to move to a different task as directed by the supervisor
- Performance of duties in accordance with approved methods, frequencies and standards, adhering to strict food safety standards
- Some preparation of cold foods will be required
- Minor cooking skills to produce call order items, e.g. Breakfast items, bacon, sausage, burgers as directed
- Assist chefs with basic food preparation and cooking
- Use of equipment machinery and cleaning materials as directed
- Significant cleaning duties are associated with this post including cleaning of pans, cutlery, crockery, machinery, cooking equipment and floors walls and work surfaces
Working for our organisation
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was created on 1 October 2019 following the merger of two adult acute Trusts, Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust.
The merger provides an opportunity to reconfigure services in a way that provides the best healthcare services to the city and improves the quality of care and health outcomes that patients experience.
The Trust runs Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool University Dental Hospital and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital.
It serves a core population of around 630,000 people across Merseyside as well as providing a range of highly specialist services to a catchment area of more than two million people in the North West region and beyond.
To hear more about our achievements click here https://www.liverpoolft.nhs.uk/media/13089/1606-annual-report-booklet_final.pdf
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Planning and organisational tasks/duties
- Work as directed by catering supervisors in accordance with local procedures
- Work within strict timeframes
- Participate as a team member
- Be prepared to move to a different task as directed by the supervisor
- Performance of duties in accordance with approved methods, frequencies and standards, adhering to strict food safety standards
- Some preparation of cold foods will be required
- Minor cooking skills to produce call order items, e.g. Breakfast items, bacon, sausage, burgers as directed
- Assist chefs with basic food preparation and cooking
- Use of equipment machinery and cleaning materials as directed
- Significant cleaning duties are associated with this post including cleaning of pans, cutlery, crockery, machinery, cooking equipment and floors walls and work surfaces
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- General education with the ability to study for level 2 food hygiene certificate
Experience
Essential criteria
- Previous catering experience
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- A general understanding of why food hygiene is important
- Health and safety basic knowledge
Skills
Essential criteria
- Communication skills and ability to work as part of a team
- Basic data inputting either manually or using a computer/tablet
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
- Bank Recruitment
- Job title
- Bank Recruitment
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0151 529 6999
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