Job summary
- Main area
- Food Hygiene Certificate
- Grade
- Band 2
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job ref
- 269-SFT9120
- Employer
- Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust
- Town
- Salisbury
- Salary
- £24,169 per annum pro rata if part time
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 12/05/2025 08:00
Employer heading

Catering Assistant
Band 2
Job overview
Are you professional, friendly and responsive to new ways of working and ideas? Do you or would you enjoy working with customers /patients? We’ve an excellent opportunity to develop a rewarding catering career with us at Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust.
Main duties of the job
We are seeking to appoint a motivated and enthusiastic Catering assistant to work as part of our friendly team at Salisbury District Hospital, providing catering services to patients staff and visitors. The post would involve delivering and collecting food trolleys to ward areas, serving meals, cleaning, dishwasher operation and assisting with the basic food preparation that may be required for the day.
Other jobs would include working in the kitchen and wash up area and carrying out general cleaning duties to maintain the required Hygiene Standards.
You should also have the ability to work flexible hours covering colleagues during annual leave or sickness if required.
Working for our organisation
Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust (SFT) is an innovative hospital with a proud heritage and over 250 years of experience behind us. Here we’re driven to deliver an outstanding experience for everyone and have been well regarded for the quality of care and treatment we continue to provide for our patients and also our staff.
We are an acute Trust, rated “Good” by the CQC, with a track record of high performance providing regional and super regional specialist services such as: Burns, Plastics & Reconstructive Surgery, Wessex Regional Genetics Laboratory, Wessex Rehabilitation, Spires Cleft Centre and the Duke of Cornwall Spinal Treatment Centre. We have about 470 beds and employ over 4000 staff.
We support flexible working and will consider requests taking into account the needs of the service. We think working here is rewarding. You can access a range of NHS discounts, receive a minimum of 35 days paid holiday (pro rata), and we offer a generous pension scheme. On-site benefits include car parking (fee applies), leisure center, day nursery and holiday play scheme.
Salisbury is an attractive place to live and work and really gives you the best of everything. With easy access to London and local airports, the city of Southampton is only a short train or car journey away or if you prefer the sea, Bournemouth is also accessible. Don’t just take our word for it, why not explore what Salisbury has to offer by visiting www.experiencesalisbury.co.uk
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached Job description and person specification for full details of roles and responsibilities.
Person specification
Food Hygiene Certificate
Essential criteria
- 2
Desirable criteria
- Achieved or willing to
Experience
Essential criteria
- 6 months
Desirable criteria
- 6 months experience
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
- Paul Straughair
- Job title
- Catering Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01722 425061
- Additional information
Paul Straughair, Catering Manager 2061 [email protected]
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