Catering Assistant
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The Catering Team is looking for a Band 3 Catering assistant to support the catering over the Tatchbury site. We are looking for someone who is going to be committed to our services and also able to help the team develop the food service across the site.
The role does require you to take responsible for all the associated clerical and due diligence duties this role involves while on duty and have a good knowledge of working with food allergens and intolerances.
We will require you within your duties to help maintain certain records including the daily diligence documentation delivery checks, temperature control, allergen records, cleaning schedules etc.
The catering provision is mainly a fresh produced service, with the addition of some regen foods supplied from our CPU (central production unit).
The role also involves face to face contact with the patients and staff on a daily basis and the assistant in the service of the main meals.
All training will be provided by the site and its team.
The vacancy is for 37.5 hours per week; the post is for 5 days over 7 days including weekends as rostered.
You will be working alongside other staff on site but will be required to work alone for some of the time depending on the location you are working in.
It is very important that you are able to be flexible as our services are patient based and we do need to provide that service to them 365 days a year.
Job description
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.
We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Basic food Hygiene
Desirable
- NVQ in catering allergen NVQ
Experience
Essential
- Experience of having worked in a catering environment
- Customer Service skills
- Good communication skills
- Ability to follow instructions and use initiative within sphere of responsibility
- Able to use equipment e.g. (Till, dishwasher)
- Self-Motivated
- Computer literate
- Knowledge of Microsoft excel and word
- Literate and numeracy
- Good English language skills
- Being flexible and adaptable at work to meet competing priorities
- Driving licence (will be required when training completed)
Desirable
- Having work previously in the hospital care services
About the employer
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.
Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.
We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.
Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence