Job Overview
A Facilities Catering Assistant is being recruited to support and assist the Chef Manager and Facilities Catering Supervisor in the provision of a highly professional focused in a healthcare setup, including covering areas within the scope of work in Catering - retail outlet, back of house catering preparation room and private patient services on the go. This is situated within Heatherwood Hospital and Greenwood Kitchen at the same site.
The hours are 37.5 per week, covering the Hospital Catering Services from 7.00am to 7.00pm. Flexible Rotas will be discussed with the successful candidates shortlisted for the interview.
If you are looking for a challenging role which offers variety, continuous support, encouragement and genuine job satisfaction then look no further. Apply now to join our dynamic and pro-active team.
Shortlisted candidates will be invited to undertake a Maths and English assessment followed by a formal interview.
Successful new team members will have to complete Level 2 Basic Food Hygiene Course and Food Allergy Training course with in the first week of commencement of their employment.
This role will not attract a visa, so please ensure you have the right to work in the UK before applying.
Main duties of the job
- To assist in the provision of a highly professional and customer focussed catering service to all patients, staff and visitors on the hospital sites
- To assist with all associated catering duties
- To follow duties laid out by the supervisor in the day to day operational management of the catering service in a friendly and efficient manner, whilst maintaining high standards of cleanliness and hygiene
- To work within all areas of the catering department, main kitchen, staff and visitor outlets, offering a flexible approach to workloads as staffing levels dictate.
Working for our organisation
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.
We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.
Our three core values, and the behaviors that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.
We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical, and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital's NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties.
Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
The role requires that the job holder follows the duties laid out by the Chef Manager/Supervisor on a day-to-day operational needs of the Catering Services. You’ll be expected to serve staff, visitors and patients in a welcoming, friendly and efficient manner, whilst maintaining the highest standards of cleanliness and hygiene. You’ll be working as part of a motivated team.
The job holder will assist the Chef Production Manager/ Facilities Catering Supervisor to expand and/or make recommendations for improving standards and enhancing the overall patient experience at all times. This would be through quality initiatives and by looking at ways of maximising good patient and customer care.
You’ll need to be aware of menu content whilst understanding the importance of food allergens, food presentation and customer care. In addition, you must ensure that the privacy and dignity of patients, visitors, and staff is respected at all times.
Please see Job Description and Person Specification for further information
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- GCSE or Equivalent
- Level 1 Basic Food Hygiene
- Sound Customer / Patient Facing experience
- Flexible with changing Catering needs in a Care / Customer Environment
Desirable criteria
- Level 2 Food Hygiene Training Certificate
- Food Allergy Training Certificate from Food Standard Agency UK
- Health and Safety Level 1
SPECIFIC COMPETENCIES
Essential criteria
- Ability to work efficiently with minimal supervision and to accommodate the needs of customers on a daily basis.
Food safety
Essential criteria
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.
We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.
We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.
Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.
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