Catering Assistant

**Please note this is a part time post and the salary for this position will be pro-rata.**

We have an exciting opportunity for a catering assistant you will be working as part of the Catering team to deliver of a range of food and beverages in line with Food Hygiene legislation and NHS Lanarkshire policies and procedures to meet the nutritional needs of Patients, Staff, and users of NHS Lanarkshire services You will be able to work alongside and support new staff in the working environment

**KNOWLEDGE, TRAINING AND/OR EXPERIENCE REQUIRED TO DO THE JOB**
- Knowledge of catering standards and related procedures.
- Required to undertake on-the-job training and induction (this will generally take 4-6 weeks, depending on hours/days worked), to achieve full competency across a range of duties.
- Working knowledge of Health & Safety including participation in risk-assessing individual tasks
- Required to undertake Prevention, Assessment & Management of Violence of Aggression (PaMOVA) training level 1 and level 2, if identified following an appropriate risk assessment
- Undertake NHS Lanarkshire compulsory training
- Undertake mandatory Health Care Support Workers (HCSW) standards
- Undertake and complete NHSS Catering Services Workbook.
- Ability to work with people and as part of a multidisciplinary team
- Effective written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to carry out assigned tasks effectively in a busy environment
- Required to obtain the Elementary Food Hygiene Certificate.
- Working knowledge of basic information technology

This job is a relief post covering all over Lanarkshire Hospitals various sites with in PSSD catering Department - will be disccued at interview all sites.
Driving Licence Essential for role, milleage can be claimed to due traveling to sites.

Fully flexible over 7 days - Weekend will be essential to the role

‘In NHS Lanarkshire we are committed to recruiting a workforce that fully reflects the diverse make-up of our society. A place where every individual can thrive, develop and succeed based on skill, knowledge and talent, regardless of race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, care experienced* or any other dimension that can be used to differentiate people from one another.
- Care experienced applicants are people who live/have lived with foster parents/kinship carers or who live/have lived in a residential children’s setting/secure unit.’

Whilst this advertisement may be for a specific post(s) in a particular location, applicants who are shortlisted for interview may be considered for similar vacancies in alternative locations.

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