Catering Assistant

Working as part of the large Catering Team at Freeman Hospital, you will be responsible for transporting patients breakfasts to the wards and departments via ward trolleys, collecting the trolleys back in and returning them back to the catering department for cleaning. General working with all areas of the catering department.

• Interview date: 4th June 2024


• Part time - 20 hours per week (11.00am to 3.00pm) working 5 days out of 7 and working 2 weekends out of 3.


• You will be redirected to Trac to apply for the vacancy. Please expand the job details section and read all of the information before applying for the vacancy, Ensuring all items are on the service belt prior the breakfast service.


• Delivering patients breakfasts to the wards using our ward trolleys, helping with the delivery of bread and milk to wards and departments, the job role will may also include the following.


• Serving patients breakfast items following their menu requests.


• Cleaning of the service area and belt, general cleaning duties around the department.


• Working in the central dish wash cleaning the ward trollies, patient crockery and cutlery from breakfast and ensuring all equipment is set up ready for the following lunch service.
  
  Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest, largest and most successful teaching NHS foundation trusts in the country, we have around 16,000 staff and an annual income of £1 billion.


We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.

We're also proud to be the second largest provider of specialised services in the country. This means we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.

Our staff oversee around 2 million patients 'contacts' each year, delivering high standards of healthcare.

Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust.

We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people's race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.