Bank Catering Assistant

We are on the lookout for a Bank Catering Assistant to join our Catering department based at St. Martin’s Hospital.

The Catering Assistant will undertake a range of duties including providing meals as well as snacks and sandwiches (made in house) for our service users. You will help support the team in meeting the needs of the Catering service and complement the delivery of service user care by our clinical staff.

As a Catering Assistant, you will ensure the department meets the required cleaning standards and ensure a HACCP plan is followed in relation to food delivery, preparation, cooking and serving.

Our Catering Service operates every day of the year, from 08:45 am to 6:00 pm, offering consistent support to our service users and staff.

If you have a passion for delivering high-quality food service and enjoy working in a team environment, we’d love to hear from you!

Package Description: As a Bank Catering Assistant, you’ll be part of our valued team at St. Martin's Hospital, Bath.

You will feel valued as a Bank Catering Assistant within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

1. £12.11 per hour
2. Free tea, coffee and milk at your local base location
3. Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
4. Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
5. Online and face-to-face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post-trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well as career coaching and counselling
6. Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
7. An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ring-fenced innovation funding each year
8. The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission

Main Responsibilities:

1. Assist in the preparation of meals, ensuring they are ready on time and meet the specified content and quality standards.
2. Adhere to portion control guidelines as outlined by the Hotel Services Manager.
3. Follow the department's cleaning schedule within the catering block, including the changing room, to maintain high cleanliness standards.
4. Serve meals to service users at ward level as required, including daily dinner service, ensuring food temperatures are recorded and meet required standards.
5. Wear the provided catering PPE/uniform, maintain a clean and professional appearance at all times, and uphold excellent personal hygiene in line with quality standards.
6. Organise and prepare graded meals according to patients’ menu choices, ensuring they are ready for serving and delivery to the wards.

The Ideal Candidate:

Essential:

1. Work well as a team but comfortable working alone
2. Ability to follow cleaning schedules and health and safety instructions

Desirable:

1. Understand a range of routine procedures
2. Previous experience in the catering industry or knowledge of catering procedures including HACCP

About The Company: We change lives by transforming health and care.

Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.

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