Night Catering Assistant

Are you a self-motivated and reliable individual with experience in catering? We are looking for a Lone Worker Catering Assistant to join our team on night shifts at Wigan Hospital. This is a crucial role in ensuring that catering services run smoothly during the night, providing quality food service to staff, patients, and visitors when needed.

What you'll be responsible for:

· Work to standard operational procedures such as food preparation, cleaning, cash handling and meal service duties within the kitchens, retail outlets & wards.

· Preparation of food, this could be within high-risk chilled areas, to specified recipes

· Ensuring labelling of products is correct e.g., product name dates.

· After training could be required to produce cooked foods e.g., soups, gravy, fried, bacon etc.

· May be required to take patient menu choices at ward level, offer alternatives where required.

· Required to serve meals at ward level to patients, or in retail outlets to staff & visitors, occasional delivery of buffets & functions outside the Department.

The role will involve, but not be limited to you performing the above.

· Excellent customer service and basic till skills advantageous.

· Excellent communication skills

· Experience in a similar role

· Level 2 Food Safety certificate, By joining us you can look forward to a choice of flexible Bank shifts across any of our client Trusts in England, as well as the ability to develop professionally and gain experience in several wards or areas.

· Competitive pay rates- work this week, get paid next week, · Varied working options to suit your lifestyle- access to the Bank gives you options of ad hoc shifts or longer-term placements

· Training and development opportunities- Keep up with the essentials and more

· Build holiday allowance for every shift you work- your work life balance is important to us

· Stakeholder pension scheme available- a flexible future for you and yours

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