Job overview

Catering Assistant   

An opportunity has arisen to work in the catering department at East Surrey Hospital. 

We are looking for an enthusiastic motivated team player with a flexible approach to work and excellent customer service.

This role is based in the busy catering department at East Surrey hospital where we serve meals to over 750  patients three times a day and serve customers in the Three Arches restaurant.

The role  involves food preparation and serving customers, so maintaining the hygiene standards and cleaning to a high level is very important, along with ensuring good stock rotation.  A high standard of customer care is essential.

You will be required to comply with food safety policies, procedures and current legislation, so previous catering experience would be an advantage, but not essential, as training will be provided.

All positions will need to ensure you give a high quality; professional service to staff and visitors at all times. The role does include a degree of manual handling, with stock replenishment and delivering of functions.

To apply please log onto NHS jobs and search using the headings above. 

For further details, job descriptions or an informal discussion please contact Caroline Given or Adrian Ionete on extension 6531/2670.

Main duties of the job

 For further information, please see the attached trust job description and person specification for a full list of duties and responsibilities.

Working for our organisation

We provide emergency and non-emergency services to the residents of East Surrey, North-East West Sussex, and South Croydon, including the major towns of Crawley, Horsham, Reigate and Redhill; a community of over 535,000 people. We provide acute and complex services and a range of outpatient, diagnostic services whilst Crawley Hospital and Horsham in West Sussex and Caterham Dene Hospital and Oxted Health Centre in Surrey provide less complex planned services. In 2019 the Care Quality Commission (CQC) rated our services as ‘Outstanding’ and we are one of the best performing Trusts in England:

• Winners of Health Service Journal Acute Trust of the year award 2021
• National Patient Safety Awards winner and strive to be a beacon for safety in all that we do
• We are in the top 20% nationally for staff recommending the Trust as a place to work or receive treatment
• Our staff rate us the best in the country among comparable acute trusts when asked if they would recommend the Trust as a place to work and when asked whether care of patients is the organisation’s top priority
• Our workforce are amongst the most motivated in the country; we achieved the top acute hospital score in the country for staff engagement in the last national staff survey