Job overview

TWA, Trafford, Withington and Altrincham hospitals are a division of Manchester Foundation Trust and the Facilities staff employed provide an integral service to the smooth running of the Division. We are now looking for staff to work at our Withington Division on the Intermediate Care Unit, Buccleuch Lodge and occasionally at Withington Community Hospital, Willow Bank Lodge Intermediate Care Unit, and Dermot Murphy Centre to help us to continue to deliver excellent support services. You may also be expected to support our other facilities services such as domestics, linen, and portering. 

As a Facilities Assistant - Catering, you will deliver a full and comprehensive catering service to the intermediate care unit. The role will also involve providing catering services at the hospital café, Dermot Murphy and Willow Bank Lodge when required. 

As we are a healthcare facility the successful candidates may also be expected to work on bank holidays and weekends.

Main duties of the job

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JOB PURPOSE

·  Provision of a high-quality beverage and meal service within a Hospital/Healthcare environment.

·  Provision of a high-quality catering service in the hospital restaurant/café either in the servery (front of house) or kitchen area.

·         Provision of catering related duties including loading, operating, and emptying dishwashers, dishwashing, making toast, distribution of all meals, and patient beverages as required.

·    To work closely and support other facilities services such as domestic, linen, and portering to ensure the seamless delivery of facilities services.

Working for our organisation

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of £2.8bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year. 

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary. 

We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022. 

We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable. 

At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.