Job summary
- Main area
- Catering
- Grade
- Band 2
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 17.5 hours per week (5 days out of 7 days)
- Job ref
- 151-LC210
- Employer
- Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Wexham Park Hospital
- Town
- Slough
- Salary
- £23,575 per annum, including HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 25/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Breakfast Host
Band 2
Job overview
To assist in the preparation of all patient breakfast services. To ensure that all food is always prepared in a safe and hygienic manner. Working in conjunction with the ward team to provide a high-quality service to patients at required times.
Main duties of the job
We have an established team providing a breakfast service for a large hospital population across 7 days. The successful candidate must have excellent people skills to support and guide the team. All aspects of Food Safety, Health and Safety and Food Allergen Management will be part of the role and the successful candidate would be given full training to ensure our high standards are maintained.
We have approximately 25 wards serving patients – each large ward has its own dedicated breakfast ward host on duty from 0700 to 1030 working 5 out of seven days on a rota basis 17.5 hours per week.
All employees are expected to attend staff meetings and training sessions to ensure they are fully compliant with the needs of the service.
There is also the opportunity to support the team with bank shifts that may include longer shifts.
Please ensure you have the right to work in the UK before applying as we cannot provide sponsorship for this role.
There will be a formal basic English and Maths test.
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 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.
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
- To assist patients to select their breakfast on a daily basis. Where necessary taking into account medical, special dietary requirements and religious needs in conjunction with medical staff.
- To serve patient breakfasts including hot and cold beverages
- To refresh the patient water jugs at the start of the day
- To ensure patients have assistance with eating if required (e.g. food cut up, within easy reach etc.) and advise nursing staff of any areas of concern
- To take full responsibility for the ward kitchen, ensuring it is a clean and hygienic environment (Inc., stock rotation, disposal of out of date food and ordering essential items etc.)
- To deal with food and general waste generated by the service in the appropriate fashion
- To co-ordinate extra meal requirements that may arise, during the core working hours.
To complete all monitoring and reporting forms in relation to the provision of catering
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Good Standards of literacy
- Good general education
Desirable criteria
- Foundation Certificate in Food Hygiene
- Good Knowledge of food safety /Kitchen
Specific Competencies
Essential criteria
- Ability to work effectively with minimal supervision.
- Good command of the spoken English
- Good time keeping
- Organised and methodical
- Basic Numeracy
- Ability to follow clear instructions and feed back to senior staff
Desirable criteria
- IT Skills
- Good Communicator
- Willingness to learn new skills
Experience
Essential criteria
- Customer care experience
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working in a service led and customer focused environment
- previous experience in a healthcare setting
Values
Essential criteria
- Hard working energetic and enthusiastic.
- Adaptable and show initiative
- Courteous, polite , and helpful
- Good interpersonal skills
- Ability to work as part of a team
- Promotes respect and dignity acknowledge the rights of others.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Pauline Pryke
- Job title
- Food Service Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 03006153262
- Additional information
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