Catering Assistant

Join us as a Catering Assistant!

We are recruiting to the Team at St Nicholas Hospital, Gosforth, Newcastle, to work within our friendly Catering Department.

This post is offered at 37.5 hours per week. Shift pattern between 10am to 6pm on a 2 week rota. Week 1 rota includes Saturday and Sunday off. Week 2 rota includes Thursday and Friday off.

Our Catering Teams provide a vital service in our hospitals, keeping patients, staff and visitors fed. You’ll help prepare food, keep our kitchens clean, and serve meals that matter.

Our Catering Teams work in mental health hospitals so you could be interacting with patients which can be challenging as well as rewarding. As a Catering Assistant you might be working in our Cafés cooking and serving meals, or you could be providing food for patients on our wards.

Sometimes our Catering Assistants work behind the scenes in the fridges, preparing and packing food to be distributed across our sites. The work can be challenging at times but we also know that our staff find it rewarding to be supporting NHS patient care.

We are really glad you are thinking of working with us. We provide important services to the NHS and other partners. We have a range of roles and working here is varied and interesting and you can make a positive difference to people’s lives.

Our people are at the absolute heart of what we do and our services are based on having great people work for us. We know from our staff survey that people like working here and people love the friendly and supportive teams we have.

We care about our staff and provide great benefits and have a range of health and wellbeing support available. We strive to be a great and inclusive place to work and having an inclusive workforce is something we are passionate about.

Person specification | Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria
An ability to communicate well with others such as other colleagues, clinical staff, or patients

Able to work well as part of a team but also to work unsupervised

Ability to adhere to standards and procedures and to accept and prioritise instructions

Must be able to meet the mobility requirements of the post

Qualifications
Essential criteria
You don’t need any formal qualifications for this job, but a certificate in hygiene is desirable.

You will be trained in food hygiene and health and safety as part of the role.

All jobs will be appointed on the NTW Solutions Limited terms and conditions and not NHS Agenda for Change terms and conditions. New starters who are not in the NHS Pension already will be enrolled into a NEST pension.

This job vacancy closes 8am, Friday 18th September