Job Summary

We are looking to recruit a part time Catering Assistant at Chippenham Community Hospital, working 16.5hours per week, weekend work included.

The successful candidate will be responsible for achieving a high standard of catering practices. Ensuring all food produced meets the required standards for safety, quality and presentation. Complying with the Trust's catering policies and procedures and adhering to Food Safety regulations.

All catering staff will be expected to demonstrate a flexible attitude to their work and provide a high level of customer care when dealing with patients, visitors and staff.

We take pride in our Hotel Services Team the services we provide to our patients, staff and visitors, and in order to maintain our own high standards we are looking for reliable and enthusiastic staff to join our team at Chippenham Community Hospital.

Relevant qualifications and/or experience would be an advantage but are not essential as we will provide full training.

Main duties of the job

• Prepare salads, sandwiches, sauces, soups and other basic food items.
• Undertake duties associated with providing a pre-prepared meal service. This will include summarising dish requirements, picking meal foils from the freezer, regenerating the food and confirming temperatures are compliant throughout.
• Make adjustments to menus at short notice to meet the needs of patients and their nutritional requirements.
• Communicate changes and shortages etc. with ward staff and patients to ensure all patients dietary requirements are fulfilled.
• Prepare and serve modified meals to patients that are on special diets in line with national requirements
• Undertake clearing, machine and manual washing up and cleaning duties in accordance with departmental schedules and standards
  
  

About us

"Our STAR values - Service, Teamwork, Ambition and Respect - are a golden thread running through everything we do. These values serve as a guiding principle, driving us towards our vision of delivering great joined up services to our local community. Whether at home, in the community, or within the hospital, our goal is to empower individuals to lead independent and healthier lives."

Job Description

Job responsibilities

• Receive, check and record deliveries for quantity, quality and temperature where applicable, then storing so that stock rotation and segregation procedures are followed.
• When necessary act as point of contact for the Supervisor in their absence, ensuring rotas are covered and all shifts are adequately staffed.
• Undertake service duties such as plating individual patient meals or bulk dishing into trolleys, ensuring departmental standards of time and temperature control are met. On sites which have staff/public dining facilities, undertake those service duties and operate the till where a cash system is in place.
• Cash handling and reconciliation of daily takings from retail outlets
  
  

Please See The Attached Job Description For Full Information

Person Specification

Qualifications

Qualifications Essential

• General educational level of numeracy and literacy
• Basic food hygiene knowledge/qualification
• Basic Health and Safety knowledge/qualification
  
  

Experience Essential

• Catering background
  
  

Desirable

• NHS background
  
  

Additional information

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab) .

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab) .