Job summary
- Main area
- Catering
- Grade
- Band 2
- Contract
- Bank: WEEKEND DUTIES REQUIRED
- Hours
- Flexible working - WEEKEND DUTIES REQUIRED
- Job ref
- 275-TSS-0725-CA
- Employer
- Medway NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Medway NHS Foundation Trust
- Town
- Gillingham
- Salary
- £13.85 - £22.16 per hour depending on shift
- Salary period
- Hourly
- Closing
- 10/08/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 20/08/2025
Employer heading
Bank Catering Assistant
Band 2
Job overview
BANK Catering Assistant
Division: Temporary Staffing
Band: 2
Pay Rate: £13.85 - £22.16 per hour depending on shift
Interview Date: 19th / 20th August (dates are subject to alteration)
***WEEKEND DUTIES REQUIRED***
We are recruiting for a Bank Catering Assistant who shares our ambition and vision to deliver the Best of Care by the Best People and has the drive to take us forward, by ensuring that the Trust continues to be the first choice for patients and our staff.
In return for your hard work and dedication, The Temporary Resourcing Service offers the following benefits:
- Free mandatory training
- Cost of DBS and uniform is covered by the Trust
- Priority shift booking over agency staff
- Support for revalidation
- Enrolment into excellent NHS Pension scheme
- Opportunities to work in specialist areas and develop key skills and experience
- Short-term, medium-term long-term “lines of work” available in a variety of areas (guaranteed shifts)
- Weekly payroll
- Online shift booking, allowing for shifts to be booked via smart phones and no need for paper timesheets
- Dedicated team to ensure you are supported
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be required to carry out a wide range of general catering duties in an efficient and effective manner to ensure that a high quality catering service is provided at all times.
To assist with general duties in packing areas and cold rooms in the patient services department, dish-washing area, staff restaurant, hospitality services and associated areas.
Our values are Bold, Every Person Counts, Sharing and Open and Together. It is important that you understand and to refer to our values when completing your application and always reflect our values throughout your employment with the Trust.
We are committed to endorsing diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion; our policies / procedures ensure that all applicants are treated fairly at every stage of the recruitment process.
To contribute to our exciting future and become part of our team, apply today.
Working for our organisation
Here at Medway, we pride ourselves on working together as one to ensure that our shared vision of Better, Best, Brilliant is achieved. Our culture and values are what drives the Trust and is the heartbeat of who we are as an organisation.
Our Trust is a great choice for people who want to develop their career in an ambitious environment. Our employees are able to choose the coverage and supplemental benefits that best fit their needs and those of their families.
The Trust is taking take positive action to ensure that we can recruit and retain people from under-represented groups to support the Trusts commitment to a diverse and inclusive workforce.
All staff at Medway comply the Trust’s and the Kent and Medway Safeguarding Board’s policies on safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To prepare the Staff Restaurant / Coffee Shop for service.
To work at all times in a clean and tidy manner ensuring strict adherence to the food hygiene and safety regulations.
To operate cash registers.
To assist in the assembly of the patient’s chilled / frozen meal service if required.
To report any mechanical or safety defects and need for repairs to the administration management for immediate action.
To clear tables and relay dirty crockery, cutlery etc. to the central wash up area.
To operate dishwashing machines.
To stack and wash crockery and cutlery from the staff meal service
To clean prescribed areas as laid down in the departmental cleaning schedule.
To follow all cleaning methods as instructed with regard to premises and equipment
To transport goods to and from the catering department as required
To present and serve staff meals and beverages.
To assist with the safe and effective cleaning of meal service areas
Person specification
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Understanding of good hygiene and health and safety practices
- Basic computer skills
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Basic food hygiene Certificate
- Good standard of general education including literacy and numeracy
Experience
Essential criteria
- Demonstrate previous experience in a catering environment
- Experience of working as part of a team
Values Based Question
Essential criteria
- Give an example of a time where you have demonstrated a ‘can do’ attitude (including the situation you were in) and the outcome
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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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
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Simon Clark
- Job title
- Head of Retail
- Email address
- [email protected]
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