Catering Assistant

We are recruiting a Catering Assistant to support the delivery of a safe, efficient and high-quality catering service within our Community Hospital in Whitchurch. Working as part of the catering team, you will help prepare and serve food, maintain food hygiene standards and ensure catering facilities are clean, stocked and ready for use.You will work as part of a team to produce a high level of quality in the preparation of meals in accordance with work schedule as required.,

• Ensuring a good standard of quality control during preparations, cooking and despatch of food. This will include documentation of the process in accordance with a safe food system.
• To prepare special diets.
• Serving meals and taking of cash for dining room till whenever necessary.
• Responsible for practising good hygiene in regard to all aspects of the working of a catering department and including the maintenance of a good standard of personal hygiene
• Assisting with the washing/drying up at lunch time.
• Ensuring that all freezers/fridges are cleaned and defrosted regularly.
• To complete food orders when required
• Assisting with ward stores order.
• To be responsible for the induction and training of new catering staff and that all training is documented.
• Responsible for taking receipt of goods and putting away in the appropriate area's
• Accepting and checking delivery of goods as necessary.
• The handling of money and filling in the appropriate form.
  
  Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust provides community-based health services for adults and children in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin, and some services in surrounding areas too. These range from district nursing, health visiting and running four community hospitals through to providing very specialist community care through talented and dedicated staff.
Patients, carers and the public play a vital role in helping us to develop and improve our services and we are constantly looking for ways to work with local communities, patients and the public to innovate and improve. Have a look at the Have Your Say section of our website to find out how you can feed back your experiences and help us to continually improve. Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust is an exciting place to work. It offers a wide range of employment opportunities for many people. Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust positively encourages applications from all areas of the community, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation or religious beliefs. We are committed to ensuring people who work for the community trust have a good working life - and a good work life/home life balance.