Catering Assistant - Retail Aintree Site bistro - Start Immediately

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Job Description - Catering Assistant - Retail Aintree Site bistro - Start Immediately

We are searching for a competitive Catering Assistant - Retail Aintree Site bistro to join our vibrant team at Liverpool University Hospitals in Liverpool.
Growing your career as a Full Time Catering Assistant - Retail Aintree Site bistro is a great opportunity to develop excellent skills.
If you are strong in adaptability, people management and have the right personality for the job, then apply for the position of Catering Assistant - Retail Aintree Site bistro at Liverpool University Hospitals today!

Job overview

The catering department at Liverpool University Hospitals is an exciting place to work.

We feed all of the patients but also have modern retail units. We try to bring the high street into the hospital by offering modern concepts to staff and visitors. 

All the outlets are very busy and we want you to encourage sales. These posts are very rewarding jobs. 

We are looking for staff who are self motivated and can work in a team or on their own unsupervised. We require staff who are flexible and open to change to join our catering team. These positions will be based in a busy hospital, you may be moved as the needs of the service requires, also you may be required to work Bank holidays including Christmas Day.

 

Main duties of the job

The Bistro 

The Bistro is a busy unit at the entrance of the hospital   . Will involve making coffee,  food preparation , serving customers, making sandwiches, kitchen cleaning, cash handling, customer care 

 

Working for our organisation

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.

To hear more about our achievements click here https://www.liverpoolft.nhs.uk/media/13089/1606-annual-report-booklet_final.pdf

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Facebook – Liverpool University Hospitals Careers

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Although the jobs are primarily based in the unit advertised, you may be required to work anywhere within the catering department depending on the needs of the service. This could include the Royal site & Broadgreen. This could also include working in the patients kitchen.

IT skills are required for all positions as the Trust does mandatory training and yearly appraisals online.

Person specification

Skills

Essential criteria
  • Communication skills
  • Data inputting
  • Team working skills

Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Understanding of the importance of good food hygiene
  • Knowledge of Health & Safety
  • Numeracy and literacy skills

Desirable criteria
  • Barista training
  • Knowledge of cash till systems

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Previous catering experience

Desirable criteria
  • Previous Industrial Catering experience
  • Previous use of cleaning machinery, Dishwashing or pan washing machinery

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Level 2 Food Hygiene Certificate or equivalent

Desirable criteria
  • level 2 food hygiene certificate Food Hygiene Certificate

Please ensure you check the email account (including junk/spam boxes) from which you apply regularly as we will use this to contact you regarding your application. 

Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview. 

We reserve the right to close any vacancies from further applications when we have received a minimum number of applications from which to make a shortlist. Please ensure you apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role. 

Candidates applying for the role of Healthcare Assistant on the staff bank  should note that due to the nature of the role,  workers must be aged 18 or above when commencing in post. Applicants are therefore welcome from those aged over 18 or within 3 months’ of their 18th birthday.

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.

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 View phone number on liverpoolft.nhs.uk 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 paypoint of the relevant band. 

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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.

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Peter Hesketh
Job title
catering manager
Email address
View email address on liverpoolft.nhs.uk
Telephone number
View phone number on liverpoolft.nhs.uk
Additional information

If you want further details on the position call Peter Hesketh to discuss


Benefits of working as a Catering Assistant - Retail Aintree Site bistro in Liverpool:


● Excellent benefits
● Advancement opportunities
● Advantageous package
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