Caterting Assistant

**Job Title**:Catering Assistant

**Location**:St Luke’s Hospital, LE16 7BN

**Pay**:£11.45 per hour plus enhanced rates for weekends and bank holidays

**About the trust**:
NHS Property Services partner with customers to enable excellent patient care by acting as a trusted advisor to the NHS and by providing the best estate solutions. They manage 2,700 properties with 6,300 customers across England, which accounts for approximately 10% of the total NHS estate. Their properties range from listed buildings to new integrated care centres and include hospitals, GP practices and offices. Our 6,000 colleagues have expertise in every area of estates and facilities management within the NHS.

**What you’ll be responsible for**:

- Work to standard operational procedures.
- Preparation of food, this could be within high-risk chilled areas, to specified recipes
- Ensuring labelling of products is correct e.g., product name dates.
- After training could be required to produce cooked foods e.g., soups, gravy, fried, bacon etc.
- Performance of duties in accordance with approved methods, frequencies, and standards, adhering to strict food safety standards.
- Required to serve meals at ward level to patients, or in retail outlets to staff & visitors, occasional delivery of buffets & functions outside the Department.
- The role will involve, but not be limited to you performing the above._

**You’ll have the following skills/experience**:

- Experience in a catering or similar role
- Excellent customer service
- NHS experience - desirable but not essential
- Reliable and hard working

**As a member of NHS Professionals, you have fantastic benefits**:

- Competitive pay rates
- work this week, get paid next week
- **Essential support when you need it
- 24/7 365 days**:

- call us anytime
- **Multi locational**:

- work across neighbouring Trusts
- **Manage your shifts and timesheets on the go**:

- access your “My Bank” shift portal anywhere, anytime online or through your smartphone
- **Varied working options to suit your lifestyle**:

- access to the Bank gives you options of ad hoc shifts or longer-term placements
- **Training and development opportunities**:

- Keep up with the essentials and more
- **Build holiday allowance for every shift you work**:

- your work life balance is important to us
- **Stakeholder pension scheme available**:

- a flexible future for you and yours

**Who are NHS Professionals?**

As an equal opportunities’ organisation, NHSP is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective Bank members and does not condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender reassignment, or marriage and civil partnership. We believe there is a strong case for the Equality, Diversity and inclusion agenda and we strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants form a range of backgrounds to apply.

By joining us you can look forward to a choice of flexible Bank shifts across any of our client Trusts in England, as well as the ability to develop professionally and gain experience in several wards or areas.

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**Job Types**: Temporary contract, Part-time

**Salary**: £11.45 per hour

**Benefits**:

- Company pension

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Work Location: In person

Reference ID: 68504