Catering Clerical Officer

We have a post for a Clerical Officer supporting our team of host/hostess and retail team along with catering managerial team who work within Catering dept. at Royal Liverpool Hospital, ensuring that we provide an excellent food and patient/customer experience., Support the team with the following:

• Ensuring rosters are covered. Allocation of work to catering assistants. Liaise with management to ensure there is a continuation of service in the event of major staff shortages. Priorities urgent requests. Authorise overtime within the allocated budget.
• Carry out staff appraisals
• To input statistics and information from Records into a database and manage the system.
• To liaise with manager to maintain a quality information system and identify potential flaws which would affect data.
• To access the database to retrieve information and produce statistics and reports for the Trust.
• General reception duties involving first contact with individuals attending the department. Giving necessary information or referring them to the appropriate member of staff.
• Communicating with all levels of staff in a polite and pleasant manner including dealing with telephone enquiries and requests and taking appropriate action.
• Send out information to departments on request, but maintain confidentiality.
• Responsible for stock control and ordering stationary as required from reprographics and stationers.
• Provide clerical and administrative support for staff.
• Organise and retrieve Notes required for the daily appointments.
• To liaise with manager to maintain a quality information system and identify potential flaws which would affect data., To provide a localised catering service observing health, safety and hygiene procedures and maintaining high standards in all aspects.
• To deliver good principles of customer care ensuring helpfulness, awareness and compassion to patients, visitors, staff and colleagues.
• Regeneration of chilled/frozen food and preparation of sauces.
• Preparation of patient meal trays.
• Plating and service of cold and hot food items with meal delivery to patients, including service of condiments.
• Probing and recording food temperatures. Recording of equipment temperatures.
• Beverage service to patients. Washing and refilling of patient's water jugs and beakers.
• To take the patient orders and communicate the requirements to the catering department.
• Clearing of meal trays, crockery and cutlery for all food areas.
• Collection, segregation and disposal of catering waste materials.
• Cleaning duties within the kitchen and other associated areas in accordance with departmental cleaning schedules to include equipment, work surfaces crockery and cutlery.
• Ordering and receipt of goods from the main catering production unit in accordance with the agreed stock requirements ensuring adequate stock levels are maintained.
• Completion of catering department procedural paperwork such as temperature checks and monitoring.
• To undertake training as required to fulfil this role and any further training which will enhance both personal effectiveness and also the delivery of high standards of service.
• To work co-operatively with colleagues as part of the team and perform additional duties as and when directed by the catering supervisor, 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.
  
  Good communication (written, verbal & IT)
• Approachable
• Organised
• Reliable, Previous catering experience at a supervisory level
• Previous Industrial Catering experience, A general understanding of why food hygiene is important
• Health and safety basic knowledge
• Knowledge of Cash handling and till systems, Excellent Communication skills
• Basic data inputting either manually or using a computer/tablet
• Basic numeracy and literacy skills
• Ability to work as part of a team
• Excellent organisation skills, Willingness to work flexibly and at other sites when required.
• Ability and willingness to undertake further training as necessary., Level 3 Food Hygiene Certificate
• ILM certificate NVQ 3 in catering subject/equivalent
  
  Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was created on 1 October 2019 following the merger of two adult acute Trusts, Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust.
The merger provides an opportunity to reconfigure services in a way that provides the best healthcare services to the city and improves the quality of care and health outcomes that patients experience. The Trust runs Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool University Dental Hospital and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital. It serves a core population of around 630,000 people across Merseyside as well as providing a range of highly specialist services to a catchment area of more than two million people in the North West region and beyond.

The Trust is committed to promoting a healthy work-life balance and achieve fair, equitable and consistent practice. We welcome flexible working requests and will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements from day one of your employment. Not all roles are suitable for every flexible working opportunity all of the time. Flexible working options may include reduced hours, compressed hours, fixed shifts, time back in lieu and home working. The Trust is committed to promoting equality and diversity; we value the contribution of individual talent, skills, knowledge and experience and aim for a workforce demography representative of the local community. We encourage applicants from the following groups that are currently under-represented in our workforce black, Asian and minority ethnic, lesbian, gay, bisexual and Transgender (LGBTQ+), disabled, male and age 16-24. Trust policy requires that the cost of submitting & processing the successful applicant/s DBS application be recovered via salary deduction following start in post. The amount of £18+£5 (standard disclosure) or £38+£5 (enhanced disclosure) will be deducted from salary, in manageable monthly instalments for up to 3 months following commencement of employment. Bank posts require upfront payment. From April 2017, Skilled visa applicants and their adult dependant(s) will be required to provide a criminal record certificate from each country they have lived in consecutively for 12 months or more in the past ten years. Applicants requiring sponsorship may wish to determine the likelihood of obtaining sponsorship for this position by assessing themselves against the criteria on the gov.uk website - https://www.gov.uk/check-uk-visa. This organisation has a zero-tolerance approach to the abuse of children, young people and vulnerable adults. All staff must ensure they adhere to the organisations safeguarding children and adults' policy and comply with the Local Safeguarding Children and Adult Board procedures. Staff should be mindful of their responsibility to safeguard children and adults in any activity performed on behalf of the organisation in line with the requirements of statutory guidance and legislation. All employees (and volunteers)are expected maintain their safeguarding knowledge and skills by completing mandatory safeguarding training which includes understanding and recognising the signs of abuse and neglect and taking appropriate action. As an organisation, we have adopted the Merseyside Domestic abuse workplace scheme which supports our staff who are experiencing Domestic Abuse /any forms of sexual violence. If you have any personal requirements that will enable you to participate in our recruitment process please contact a member of the Recruitment Services by phone on at the earliest opportunity to ensure that measures can be put in place to enable your application for this post. Please note: new entrants to the NHS will commence on the first pay point of the relevant band. For agenda for change banded roles; salary payments will reflect the 2023/24 pay scales. The 2024/25 pay scales will be paid in October 2024 including any backpay due. Therefore should the successful applicant start in post prior to October, the salary will initially reflect the 2023/24 pay scales.