Catering Assistant

Are you an experienced Catering Assistant, Cook, Chef, or hold equivalent level experience?

Do you have experience working as a Catering Assistant, Cook, Chef or equivalent within the NHS, Healthcare or Public Sector? (Desirable)

Do you have an understanding or working knowledge of Health & Safety and Food Hygiene?

Will you be available to work on a temporary basis expected to be for 3 months in East London, working up to 37.5 hours per week, covering various shift patterns during Monday - Sundays between the hours of 7am - 9:30pm as a Catering Assistant?

If yes, and you were successful for this opportunity moving forward, would you be available to commence employment immediately or within 1 week (once compliant)?

Our client, a healthcare organisation based in East London are seeking to appoint several Catering Assistant to join their team.

Catering Assistant

Location: East London

Parking: Not specified

Job Type: Temporary

Duration of booking: Expected to last up to 3 months.

Proposed start date: Asap

Sector: Healthcare

Base: Hospital

Band: 2

Hourly Pay Rates:

Monday to Friday, 6am-8pm - £12.00 per hour paye inclusive of holiday pay

Monday to Friday, 8pm-6am and Saturdays - £13.00 per hour paye inclusive of holiday pay

Sunday and Bank Holidays - £17.00 per hour paye inclusive of holiday pay

Working Days and Hours: Monday to Sunday, Various shifts, 37.5 hours

Shift Patterns:

07:00-15:30

07:00-19:30

08:00-14:00

08:00-16:30

08:30-16:30

16:00-19:00

16:30-19:30

16:30-21:30

Job Purpose

You will assist in providing a comprehensive catering service at a Hospital site, to Patients Staff and Visitors in line with Hygiene Legislation, Environmental Health requirements and departmental Standard Operational Procedures in all areas of the Catering Department, providing a food service that is safe and customer focused.

Duties

• Provide a counter service to staff, patients and visitors that is customer focused in Trust restaurants and cafes with responsibility for Cash handling and Card payments at authorised pay points.
• Follow food safety legislation and complete all relevant Hazard Analysis of Critical Control Points documentation.
• Be responsible for replenishing counter and food service areas, rotating in accordance with Use by and Best before dates ensuring stock is fresh and appetising.
• To be responsible for the 24-hour patient snack and discharge bag fridge daily ensuring products have 2 days shelf life on fresh products.
• Clean and refill hot drinks machines ensuring correct food products, cleaning products and cleaning cycles are used.
• Prepare and label sandwiches, salads, vegetables, fruit salad, paninis in designated controlled chilled based environment, labelling is computer based.
• Prepare patient meal trolleys for service, ensure trolleys are switched on, set up with appropriate, cutlery, crockery and serving utensils.
• Prepare trolleys for functions and hot buffets.
• Serve specialist diets for patients prepared and labelled by chefs, responding to any questions the patients may have.
• Responsible for regular floor cleaning using heavy mechanical floor scrubbing machines,
• Regular use of various hot or heavy kitchen equipment including but not limited to meat slicer, waste disposal, sandwich sealer, deep fat fryer, hot plates, jacket potato machine, coffee machines, sandwich toasters.
• Responsible for reporting any mechanical or building defects immediately to Supervisor/Line Manager.

Experience, Skills and Education

• Experience of working as a Catering Assistant, Cook, Chef or hold equivalent level experience (preferably within the NHS, Healthcare or Public Sector)
• Working knowledge or an understanding of Health & Safety, and Food Hygiene (desirable)
• Good level of communication skills, with the ability to work well both independently and within a team
• To remain professional and be able to follow instruction, paying close attention to detail
• To be able to work shift patterns, up to 37.5 hours per week during Monday to Sundays, starting as early at 7am until 9:30pm (in line with the shift patterns stated above)

Apply Now if interested