Job summary
- Main area
- Catering
- Grade
- Band 2
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 18 hours per week (Monday to Friday)
- Job ref
- 040-EA038-0325
- Employer
- Aneurin Bevan University Health Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- St Cadocs Hospital
- Town
- Caerleon
- Salary
- £23,970 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 01/04/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Facilities Operative - Catering Assistant, St Cadocs Hospital
Band 2
We encourage applications from all with protected characteristics and from those in the Armed Forces Community. Applicants are invited to apply in Welsh, any application submitted through the medium of Welsh will not be treated less favourably than applications made in English.
If you are successful at interview for this post you will receive your conditional offer of appointment and information pack via email.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy at any time. Therefore we encourage early applications to ensure consideration for this post. If you are short listed for this post, you will be contacted via your email account you used to apply for this post, therefore please check your account regularly.
Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board support flexible working.
Please note that this vacancy may be withdrawn at any time should it be filled via the internal redeployment process
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Catering Assistant at St Cadocs Hospital in Caerleon.
We are looking for a highly motivated and energetic individual who is committed to enhancing the patient & customer experience, therefore you must have a passion for providing a high level of customer service.
The post requires the post-holder to be flexible in the performance of their duties, within the Kitchen/Catering service.
This post is 18 hours per week to be worked Monday to Friday.
Main duties of the job
The duties within each function will be set out in the relevant job schedules. The assignment of these duties will meet the priority needs and demands of the service as identified by the manager/supervisor. The post-holder will therefore be expected to take a flexible approach to their duties, and must also be able to cover rosters.
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.
Working for our organisation
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board is a multi-award winning NHS organisation with a passion for caring. The Health Board provides an exceptional workplace where you can feel trusted and valued. Whatever your specialty or stage in your career, we have opportunities for everyone to start, grow and build your career. The health board provides integrated acute, primary and community care serving a population of 650,000 and employing over 16,000 staff.
We offer a fantastic benefits package and extensive training and development opportunities with paid mandatory training, excellent in-house programmes, opportunities to complete recognised qualifications and professional career pathways including a range of management development programmes. We offer flexible working and promote a healthy work life balance, provide occupational health support and an ambitious plan for a Wellbeing Centre of Excellence to support you at work.
Our Clinical Futures strategy continues to enhance and promote care closer to home as well as high quality hospital care when needed. This includes the Grange University Hospital which provides specialist and critical care and is the newest addition to the clinical futures strategy opening in November 2020. Join us on our journey to pioneer new ways of working and deliver a world-class healthcare service fit for the future.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click “Apply now” to view in Trac.
Person specification
Previous Experience
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working in a customer focused environment
- Experience of undertaking a facilities role
Knowledge & Training
Essential criteria
- Good basic education
- Level 2 Food Safety or requirement to attain
- Willingness to undertake & complete statutory & mandatory training including Basic Food Hygiene certificate
Desirable criteria
- Basic IT skills
- Spoken or written Welsh language
- NVQ level 1/2 in Facilities Services and/or Customer Services
Personal Attributes
Essential criteria
- Excellent communication skills
- Keen to develop knowledge and skills to support their role
- Pleasant, caring and polite manner
- Motivated
- Flexible approach to work
- Able to work autonomously without direct supervision
- Able to recognise own limitations and seek support & guidance when required
- Team Player
- Good organisational skills
- Dependable with good time management skills.
- Able to give a positive impression of yourself and the organisation
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Welsh language skills are desirable
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Emma Jobbins
- Job title
- Assistant Operation Services Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07976734939
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