Facilities Management Assistant (Catering Assistant)

The post is suited to an enthusiastic team member who will work within our catering team. The post holder will be a positive member of the team who together with the cooks will ensure that we provide fresh high quality food whilst adhering to our very high food hygiene and cleanliness standards. They will be an important part of the Estates and Facilities Management Team., Facilities tasks may include all or a combination of the following:
o Cleaning in the kitchen
o Delivering of patient meals to the ward kitchen serveries
o Taken stock of deliveries
o Basic food preparation;
o Preparing and delivering of buffets
o Fridge and food temperature monitoring;
o Till operation;
o Collating service user menu orders;
o Filling vending machines.
2. To assist colleagues and their line manager, carry out the tasks assigned to the team or individual and to support the minimisation of overtime and sickness costs to the Trust and also minimise the waste of resources, through operating the required reporting, management or information systems.
3. To undertake all mandatory training as required by Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust and ensure that all required training is kept up to date.
4. To take part in performance management and Personal Achievement and Contribution Evaluations (PACE).
5. To comply with all relevant policies and procedures (including, but not limited to, health & safety, security, manual handling and food safety). As work may be carried out in a wide variety of locations, adherence to site-specific security procedures is of paramount importance.
6. To take responsibility for the completion of all duties in a safe and efficient manner, and to maintain regular contact with their line manager.
7. To stand in for other FMA's as required.
8. To liaise with all relevant parties in a friendly and helpful way as is required to ensure the achievement of all duties and responsibilities.
1. Internal Contacts
Contact with staff of all disciplines and at all levels in the course of day-to-day domestic and catering duties.
2. External Contacts
Contact with visitors to the Trust, and with a variety of maintenance and other contractors working on site.
3. Service Users
Contact with patients. This may be daily within inpatient areas for extended periods of time, or infrequently in outpatient areas. This contact may include communication with service users with severe and enduring mental health problems, who may display behavioural difficulties and import sensitive information.
9. To work unsupervised and use own initiative in line with service requirements.
10. To ensure timely and accurate completion of documentation, and to enter and use data on information systems.
11. To undertake cleaning duties in accordance with cleaning schedules and instructions.
Any other duties that may be reasonably expected and that are commensurate with the grade.
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We celebrate diversity and promote equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect.
We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and also particularly encourage applications from ethnic minorities, disabled and LGBTQIA+ people that are under-represented in our workforce. Furthermore we welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces personnel as we recognise the benefits of the values, skills, training and experience that they bring to their work with us. We encourage all applicants to share their equality information with us.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants who consider themselves to be disabled who meet the minimum (essential) criteria for the role in the person specification. If you would like your application to be considered under the Trust's guaranteed interview scheme you can indicate this in the personal information section of your online application form.
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Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
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Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' - care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.