Catering Assistant

2x Post 16 hours any 5 days out of 7

We have a vacancy in the catering department for a Catering Assistant with flexibility to work in all areas of catering. This post will be with our evening team which is 5/6pm until 9pm. Duties to include delivery of items to wards, making of some sandwiches reheating of food and very basic cooking duties, General daily cleaning duties, packing of patient trolleys and working on industrial washing up machines.

We are looking for a motivated individual with initiative to assist in a very busy area. with good communications skills and be able to follow written and verbal instructions and follow strict hygiene regulations.

Some knowledge of HACCP AND COSHH would be advantageous.

Operation of the patient’s meal service, and supporting the portioning of meals for patient and satellite units, loading trolleys and general cleaning duties.

Our Trust is situated in the beautiful county of Lincolnshire and is one of the biggest acute hospital trusts in England, serving a population of more than 700,000 people. We provide acute and specialist services to people in Lincolnshire and neighbouring counties. We have an annual income of £643 million (20/21) and we employ nearly 8,500 people.

Our Board have recently agreed a new vision statement - “Outstanding Care Personally Delivered” - stating their ambition for our Trust to be among the best.

We also have a five year Integrated Improvement Plan setting out how we will achieve our strategic objectives, for patients, services, people and partners, the last recognising that our future success depends on our ability to ensure the Lincolnshire healthcare system is successful in achieving its ambition to help people live healthier lives and provide care closer to where people live.

Our latest CQC report increased our ratings for being effective and well-led from ‘Requires Improvement’ to ‘Good’. Our rating for caring remained as ‘Good’.

This is in recognition of the huge amount of work that our amazing staff have done to improve the quality of care for our patients in recent years.

We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated.

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