Job summary
Employer heading
Catering Assistant - Royal Liverpool Hospital
Band 2
Job overview
This is an exciting time to join our Catering Team for the NHS at Royal Liverpool Hospital.
We have available post working within our ward kitchens, ensuring that we provide an excellent food and patient experience.
If you are looking for a rewarding role working within our wards and you have the following skills please apply.
- Good communication (written & verbal)
- Approachable
- Organised
- Reliable
Main duties of the job
Regeneration of chilled/frozen food and preparation of sauces.
Plating and service of cold and hot food items with meal delivery to patients, including service of condiments.
Probing and recording food temperatures. Recording of equipment temperatures.
Beverage service to patients. Washing and refilling of patient’s water jugs and beakers.
To take the patient orders and communicate the requirements to the catering department.
Working for our organisation
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital & Royal Liverpool University Hospital.
We are part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, formed on 1 Nov 2024 from the coming together of LUHFT and Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust. The Group was born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide our patients.
UHLG is one of the largest employers in the region, with over 16,800 colleagues dedicated to caring for our communities - from birth and beyond.
For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, we are their local NHS. We provide general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services for more than two million people in the North West.
Aintree University Hospital is the single receiving site for adult major trauma patients in Cheshire and Merseyside and hosts a number of regional services including an award-winning stroke facility. Broadgreen Hospital is home to elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation. Liverpool Women’s Hospital specialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK’s largest single site maternity hospital each year. The Royal Liverpool University Hospital is the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single bedrooms and focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.
For roles at Liverpool Women’s, visit their careers page.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To provide a localised catering service observing health, safety and hygiene procedures and maintaining high standards in all aspects.
To deliver good principles of customer care ensuring helpfulness, awareness and compassion to patients, visitors, staff and colleagues.
Regeneration of chilled/frozen food and preparation of sauces.
Preparation of patient meal trays.
Plating and service of cold and hot food items with meal delivery to patients, including service of condiments.
Probing and recording food temperatures. Recording of equipment temperatures.
Beverage service to patients. Washing and refilling of patient’s water jugs and beakers.
To take the patient orders and communicate the requirements to the catering department.
Clearing of meal trays, crockery and cutlery for all food areas.
Collection, segregation and disposal of catering waste materials.
Cleaning duties within the kitchen and other associated areas in accordance with departmental cleaning schedules to include equipment, work surfaces crockery and cutlery.
Ordering and receipt of goods from the main catering production unit in accordance with the agreed stock requirements ensuring adequate stock levels are maintained.
Completion of catering department procedural paperwork such as temperature checks and monitoring.
To undertake training as required to fulfil this role and any further training which will enhance both personal effectiveness and also the delivery of high standards of service.
To work co-operatively with colleagues as part of the team and perform additional duties as and when directed by the catering supervisor
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Previous catering experience
Desirable criteria
- Previous industrial catering experience
- Previous use of cleaning machinery, Dishwashing or panwashing machinery
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Numeracy and literacy skills
- Knowledge of Health & Safety
- Understanding of the importance of good food hygiene
Desirable criteria
- Barista training
- Knowledge of cash till systems
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Level 2 Food Hygience Certificate or equivalent
Desirable criteria
- Food/Hygience certificate
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Thomas Mangan
- Job title
- Catering Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0151 706 2043
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