Bank Catering Operative

Job overview

Are you interested in finding out more about Catering roles within our Bank team?

Here are a few reasons to apply

• Bank workers are valued members of our team and have access to exceptional benefits, including access to the NHS Pension scheme, and full training and induction support
• Bank offer flexible working patterns to meet your needs, offering earlies, lates, long days and nights with competitive rates. £11.45 per hour- Week days £16.49 per hour- Nights and Saturdays £21.53 per hour- Sundays and Bank Holidays
• £11.45 per hour- Week days £16.49 per hour- Nights and Saturdays £21.53 per hour- Sundays and Bank Holidays
• £11.45 per hour- Week days
• £16.49 per hour- Nights and Saturdays
• £21.53 per hour- Sundays and Bank Holidays

*All rates are inclusive of annual leave allowance

• State of the art facilities- you will be based within our award-winning Brunel building, which has recently won Best Acute Hospital Development at the 2017 Building Better Healthcare Awards in London and Best Healthcare Design over 25,000sqm at the European Healthcare Awards
• You will increase your skill set by working with multidisciplinary teams to deliver all admin support across many different areas within the Trust.

Main duties of the job

Are you:

• Excited at the prospect of supporting our Trust by serving food in either our Staff Restaurant or Ward Level Patient Meal Service?
• Able to play a key role in our catering team, which may include the following duties:
• Preparing vegetables, fruit, salads, sandwiches, toast, beverages and other food items
• Working as a Pot Wash and supporting the catering stores area
• Working as a ward operative, preparing and serving food directly to patients’
• Working as a kitchen porter, providing additional support as required in our catering preparation unit
• Supporting services within the Coffee Shop both Barista and Serving customers
• Providing services within the staff Restaurant including serving food, cleaning of restaurant areas, washing up duties
• Cooking and preparation of basic food items within both CPU and the main Staff Restaurant
• Handling cash and the ability to use a cash till.

If so, Apply Now!

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For a full overview of the Job Description, please refer to the PDF Job Description attached as an additional document to this advert.

• Preparing, pre-wrapping and date stamping and pricing as appropriate menu items, e.g., salads, sandwiches, some cold sweets, cheese and biscuits etc.
• Preparing of workstations for the service of meals
• Serving and/or dispatching of meals for patients, staff, visitors and special function guests.
• Dispatching of meals for patients, staff, visitors and special function guests (via the conveyor belt system where applicable).
• Assisting Chefs as and when required with food preparation in readiness for cooking
• Preparing and cooking of specific food items for servery
• Cleaning of premises including floors, walls, sinks, wash hand basins, work surfaces, cupboards, toilets etc.
• Cleaning of large items of equipment including ovens, refrigerators, mixing machines, brat pans, boilers etc.
• Washing of crockery, cutlery and other utensils and small items of equipment
• Cleaning of food trolleys, general purpose trolleys, bain maries and hot cupboards etc.
• Maintaining agreed standards of food hygiene at all times.
• Taking items to and collecting items from wards and other departments as required.
• Replenishing of Vending Machine and completion of necessary paperwork.
• Loading / unloading and movement of meal service trolleys and insulated food boxes.

Applicant requirements

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.