Catering Assistant | East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust
We are recruiting for a Catering Assistant who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.
Our busy catering department is looking for an enthusiastic and adaptable catering assistant to join the catering teams at East and North Herts NHS Trust.
The catering team delivers a high-quality catering and retail service to patients, staff and visitors.
The role of catering assistants involves providing a range of support to our catering team which includes picking patient food orders, food deliveries, retail services, cleaning services, front servery & operating till systems.
You should be able to work at part of a team and communicate well with colleagues, staff and visitors. You will need to work within hospital policies and procedures and always uphold the values of East and North Herts.
Developing our staff is very important to us. East and North Herts offer fantastic development pathways and support apprenticeships.
At the heart of everything we do are our core values: Include, Respect, and Improve. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.
You will work as part of a busy team and will be designated to one section but would be expected to work in all areas of the Catering Department if required to do so.
You will be required to undertake a wide range of general Catering duties including preparation of food, service of food to patients, staff and the public, cleaning of and use of equipment and machinery, and the operation of mechanical industrial type dishwashing machines.
You will also be required to maintain stocks in the site’s vending machines and to handle cash.
At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.
We run the following hospitals:- The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
- New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
- Hertford County, Hertford
- Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood
We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.
We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.
This advert closes on Tuesday 25 Feb 2025