Kitchen / Retail Assistant

3 months ago


Harlow, United Kingdom The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust Full time

We are looking for kitchen/Retail assistants to support our busy catering at the Princess Alexandra Hospital. You will be part of a dedicated team and work alongside our catering team to support them in the preparing of meals for our patients and people, also ensuring our work areas and equipment are clean to highest standard.

We actively support the development of our team to ensure they learn and grow with us. We are able to offer support with your professional development, including funding of qualifications in food hygiene and we also offer a number of apprenticeships.

**Your day-to-day duties will include**:

- Supporting our chefs with kitchen operations
- Providing a support service to the kitchen [cold food prep and cleaning]
- Working as part of a team in the Central Dish wash and Pot Wash area
- Receiving and storing of food items
- Operation of tills and money handling

We can offer flexible shifts to ensure we cover our service from 6am to 7pm, 7 days a week.

When you start with us you will have a comprehensive 6-month probationary period to ensure you are properly supported as you learn your new job and what is expected; ensuring we identify any training and development needs and put objectives in place to support you in your role and career with us.

The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust (PAHT) provides a full range of general acute, outpatient and diagnostic services at The Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow, the Herts and Essex Hospital in Bishop’s Stortford, and St Margaret’s Hospital in Epping.

We employ 3,500 staff and serve a local population of around 350,000 people living in west Essex and east Hertfordshire, centred on the M11 corridor and the towns of Harlow, Bishop’s Stortford and Epping. Our extended catchment area incorporates a population of up to 500,000 and includes the areas of Hoddesdon, Cheshunt and Broxbourne in Hertfordshire.

Our Values

The Princess Alexandra Promise to our patients as identified by our 3 values which will contribute to improving our patient experiences:
Patient at heart
- Always holding the patient and their wellbeing at the centre of our thoughts and efforts

Everyday excellence
- Sharing and celebrating our successes, being honest when we get it wrong, giving us the ability to learn from both

Creative collaboration
- Knowing strength comes from diversity, we combine our experiences, skills and talents, working together to find new and better ways to care

The Trust believes in investing in all our staff and rewarding high standards of care whilst building for excellence and in return we expect our staff to uphold the Trust values to the highest level.
- General cleaning of all areas associated with the catering department [e.g. working surfaces, equipment, floors, walls, stores area etc.] whilst using the appropriate cleaning materials/chemicals/equipment for the job, wearing the specified personal protective clothing and completing cleaning schedule documentation
- Support chefs with kitchen operations providing patients & public meal preparation via the mobile bulk trolley service or from time to time by any other means deemed necessary in line with business/patient needs

For further detail please see the job description and person specification


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