Job summary
Employer heading
Catering Assistant - Royal Liverpool Hospital
Band 2
Job overview
This is an exciting time to join our Catering Team for the NHS at Royal Liverpool Hospital.
We have available post working within our ward kitchens, ensuring that we provide an excellent food and patient experience.
If you are looking for a rewarding role working within our wards and you have the following skills please apply.
- Good communication (written & verbal)
- Approachable
- Organised
- Reliable
Main duties of the job
- Regeneration of chilled/frozen food and preparation of sauces.
- Plating and service of cold and hot food items with meal delivery to patients, including service of condiments.
- Probing and recording food temperatures. Recording of equipment temperatures.
- Beverage service to patients. Washing and refilling of patient’s water jugs and beakers.
- To take the patient orders and communicate the requirements to the catering department.
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
- To provide a localised catering service observing health, safety and hygiene procedures and maintaining high standards in all aspects.
- To deliver good principles of customer care ensuring helpfulness, awareness and compassion to patients, visitors, staff and colleagues.
- Regeneration of chilled/frozen food and preparation of sauces.
- Preparation of patient meal trays.
- Plating and service of cold and hot food items with meal delivery to patients, including service of condiments.
- Probing and recording food temperatures. Recording of equipment temperatures.
- Beverage service to patients. Washing and refilling of patient’s water jugs and beakers.
- To take the patient orders and communicate the requirements to the catering department.
- Clearing of meal trays, crockery and cutlery for all food areas.
- Collection, segregation and disposal of catering waste materials.
- Cleaning duties within the kitchen and other associated areas in accordance with departmental cleaning schedules to include equipment, work surfaces crockery and cutlery.
- Ordering and receipt of goods from the main catering production unit in accordance with the agreed stock requirements ensuring adequate stock levels are maintained.
- Completion of catering department procedural paperwork such as temperature checks and monitoring.
- To undertake training as required to fulfil this role and any further training which will enhance both personal effectiveness and also the delivery of high standards of service.
- To work co-operatively with colleagues as part of the team and perform additional duties as and when directed by the catering supervisor
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Previous catering experience
Desirable criteria
- Previous industrial catering experience
- Previous use of cleaning machinery, Dishwashing or panwashing machinery
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Numeracy and literacy skills
- Knowledge of Health & Safety
- Understanding of the importance of good food hygiene
Desirable criteria
- Barista training
- Knowledge of cash till systems
Skills
Essential criteria
- Communication skills
- Data inputting
- Team working skills
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Level 2 Food Hygience Certificate or equivalent
Desirable criteria
- Food/Hygience certificate
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.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Thomas Mangan
- Job title
- Catering Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0151 706 2043
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