Facilities Catering Support Assistant

We are seeking a dedicated and reliable Catering Service Assistant to join our team at Stafford County Hospital. This part-time position involves working in a busy hospital environment, ensuring that high standards of food service are maintained across various wards and departments.

• Preparing and serving meals to patients, staff, and visitors in accordance with dietary requirements and health & safety standards.
• Assisting with the preparation and organisation of food items, ensuring compliance with NHS guidelines.
• Ensuring cleanliness and hygiene in the kitchen and dining areas, including washing up and sanitising surfaces.
• Taking and recording meal orders from patients, considering any specific dietary needs.
• Delivering food to wards in a timely manner, ensuring it is served at the correct temperature.
• Managing and replenishing stock levels, ensuring that all food items are stored correctly.
• Liaising with healthcare staff to ensure that patients' dietary requirements are met.

For further information on this vacancy, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification or contact the Hiring Manager.

University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust is one of the largest and most modern in the country. We serve around three million people and we're highly regarded for our facilities, teaching and research. The Trust has around 1,450 inpatient beds across two sites in Stoke-on-Trent and Stafford. Our 11,000 strong workforce provide emergency treatment, planned operations and medical care from Royal Stoke University Hospital and County Hospital in Stafford.

We are the specialist centre for major trauma for the North Midlands and North Wales. We have put together a wide range of development packages aimed at ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to fulfil their potential. Our goal is to be a world-class centre of achievement, where patients receive the highest standards of care and the best people come to learn, work and research.

Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff is really important to us. We offer a range of options for our staff to help maintain a good work-life balance including full time, part time hours and bank hours. We are also committed to offering flexible working wherever we can and where relevant to the role and the service, agile working. You can select your preferences upon application.

Essential: - Basic numeracy and literacy

Desirable: - Food Hygiene Certification

Essential: - Ability to follow instruction, training, process and procedure

Desirable: - Understanding of COSHH & Risk Assessments

Essential: - To have worked in a service/customer environment

Desirable: - Experience of Working within an NHS environment