Catering Assistant

The catering department at City Hospital is looking to recruit a part time experienced Catering Assistant to work within retail and patient services

Duties for retail include cash handling, basic food preparation, general cleaning and completing control paperwork and working a barista coffee machine.

Duties for patient services include delivering stores to wards, answering a bleep system, washing up patient crockery and cutlery, general cleaning and completing control paperwork.

Applicants must have previous catering experience with high standards of work, be an outgoing, hard-working and enthusiastic individual that is able to work on their own initiative.

Hours 23.5 hours per week

Shift pattern

Monday 6.5 hours relief (working a 6.5 shift between 6.30am - 22.00pm)

Tuesday 16.00pm - 22.00pm

Wednesday 9.00am - 15.00pm

Thursday 5 hours relief (working a 6.5 shift between 6.30am - 22.00pm)

Applicants are required to be flexible in their approach to hours and duties and able to work additional shifts as and when required.

To carry out a wide range of general catering duties in an efficient and effective manner to ensure that a high quality service is provided at all times. This post has a significant amount of personal contact with Staff, Patients and Members of the Public.

Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust (SWBT) is an integrated care organisation with a budget of approximately £600 million and over 7,000 staff. Diversity and social care is at the core of what we do as the Trust provides Community and Acute Services to over half a million people in an urban centre that demands massive regeneration and has substantial premature mortality.

Our new acute hospital, the Midland Metropolitan University Hospital (MMUH), opens in 2024 and will provide care to our local population from first class, purpose-built premises. As a result, the base of this role may change to MMUH from 2024 (or beyond). If this is applicable to your role, you will be informed during the recruitment process and continuing your application with this understanding. The development of the new hospital will play an important role in the regeneration of the wider area and in improving the lives of local people and reducing health inequalities.

We have three newly emerging strategic objectives:
1. Our People – to cultivate and sustain happy, productive and engaged staff
2. Our Patients – to be good or outstanding in everything we do
3. Our Population – to work seamlessly with our partners to improve live

• To carry out basic food preparation, packing, labelling and chilling of sandwiches and other food products, according to set recipes and procedures.
• Packing and labelling of pre-prepared food commodities for patients special diets.
• To carry out basic cooking duties including breakfast and back bar items.
• To operate cash registers and reconciliation of monies in line with departmental policies and procedures.
• To prepare and deliver hospitalities in accordance with hospitality forms.
• To clean, fill and attend to vending machines on a daily basis.
• To serve meals in the staff dining room and other associated areas as required and to portion food in the correct manner according to portion controls for patients and the retail service.