Food Servery Assistant - Northampton

We have full-time opportunities for enthusiastic and organised people to join our food service team

Salary: £23,605 per annum

Location: Northampton, Northamptonshire

Full time 37.5 hours per week (Inc. weekend work)

Food Servery Assistant

You will be required to work on the wards and within the Patient Meal Service kitchen with appropriate guidelines. You will be required to serve and deliver all food and beverage requirements to patients on the ward, load & deliver trolleys and associated cleaning duties. We would expect you to have excellent organisational and communication skills and work well under pressure whilst delivering excellent customer care to our patients.

• To ensure that at the end of every meal and beverage service that all cutlery, crockery and condiments are removed from the patient area and correctly stored, disposed of or stacked ready for washing.
• To wash equipment/utensils used in the preparation, regeneration, and serving of food and beverages (some items are to be returned to the main catering department)
• To maintain the ward kitchen hygiene standards, ensuring it is clean and tidy at all times. To ensure good practice in relation to the stock rotation and the discarding of out of date food.
• Management of ordering and receipt of ward stock supplies
• To monitor and record fridge temperatures daily in accordance with food safety regulations and report problems as appropriate.
• To ensure refrigerated food is labelled and stored correctly as per procedure
• Ensure all patients meals are accurate and served in a timely manner.

Rewards

We offer an excellent benefits package including: Pension; Sickness policy on par with the NHS; Access to the Blue Light Card and Health Service Discounts schemes; 27 days annual leave (plus bank holidays), increasing 10 years' service; Life cover; Electric Car lease scheme; Cycle to work scheme; Healthcare cash plan; Free parking; Paid DBS application; Access to free vocational qualifications; On-site facilities such as gym and swimming pool access and cafés all set within beautiful grounds.

Our patients and your colleagues will expect you to live the St Andrew’s CARE values of Compassion, Accountability, Respect and Excellence every single day.