Clinical Catering Assistant (Bank)

Come and join our team at Parexel’s Early Phase Clinical Unit in Harrow as a Clinical Catering Assistant. This is a BANK role will be offering flexible shifts with up to 37.5 hours per week, rotational shifts include weekends.

Our first-in-human study premises offer recreational facilities for the participants, a screening department, wards, a laboratory and a pharmacy.

The main purpose of the Job is to Distribute food beverages to clinical trial participants and to maintain the catering area.

Job Responsibilities:

• Coordination and ordering food from caterer for volunteers in cooperation with the study team
• Distribute food and beverages to trial participants according to study protocol and internal requirements
• Supervise volunteers during mealtimes, assisting them with catering requirements as required
• Ensuring menus have macro-nutrients checked by the Dietician

• Ensure that the meals are correct (ingredients and macro-nutrients) and distributed as per protocol time
• Document meal and beverage start and stop times when required by a study
• Document beverages distribution times and provided volumes as per source data agreement
• Weigh food before and after when demanded by the study protocol
• Estimate percentage consumption when required by protocol

• Store food and beverages according to individual storage requirements
• Perform quality controls on expiry dates of stored food and drinks
• Clean and maintain kitchen and equipment
• Maintain stock.
• Oversee staff kitchen areas and maintain stock levels as required

• Hospitality set-up and oversee food orders
• Other tasks in the opinion of the manager and need of the EPCU

Skills & Experience:

• Experience in restaurant or canteen work or equivalent
• Basic English knowledge
• Computer skills (Windows Office)
• Ability to work under pressure and multitask in times with a higher workload
• Ability to work in shifts (early, late)
• Ability to work on weekends and holidays
• Good communication skills
• To handle and operate the dishwasher, the heated catering trolley ovens, the kitchen ovens and other machinery as and when required with health and safety in mind

Education:

• A secondary school qualification.