Bank Host and Catering Assistant

Host Catering Assistant Leeds Private Hospital Flexible working hours 0 hour Excellent benefits

Spire Leeds Hospital, Wrexham is currently looking for an experienced Catering Assistant to join their hospitality team on a bank/ad-hoc basis

Contract type

Bank/Zero-hour

As Catering Assistant, you will be responsible to provide a quality food and beverage service to patients, staff and visitors and maintain a high standard of cleanliness throughout all areas of the hospital.

Duties and responsibilities (not limited):

• Responsible for taking meal orders from patients and visitors on a daily basis
• Observe all dietary requirements as identified on nurses list and ensure patient's menu choice is compatible
• Identifying and correctly dealing with any patient allergies when taking orders and ensuring this is communicated to the kitchen following the correct process
• Responsible for the service (including clearing and washing) of food and beverages to patients, visitors and staff
• Responsible for offering and serving refreshments before and after a meal and as required at patients or visitors requests
• Responsible for washing, drying and putting away of returned trays, crockery, cutlery and glassware
• Ensures the highest standards of cleanliness and hygiene within the pantry in compliance with hygiene training
• Ensures cleaning jobs are completed and signed for in accordance with cleaning schedules and procedures

Who we're looking for:

• Whilst no formal qualifications are required you must be able to communicate with other members of staff and patients clearly and your personal appearance must be of a high standard, expected in a professional healthcare environment
• Experience of working in a similar role, in a customer facing environment
• Ability to work evenings and possibly some weekends
• Good communication skills
• Ability to establish rapport with all customers
• Able to work as part of a team
• Ability to work on own initiative and with a methodical approach to work
• Maintains high standards

Benefits:

We offer employed colleagues a competitive salary as well as a comprehensive benefits package which includes but is not limited to:

• Bank colleagues are paid weekly
• We offer competitive rates to our bank colleagues who work on a flexible basis, often to cover busy periods, sickness, or annual leave
• Save an average of £50 per month with our free onsite car park
• Access to Spire Healthcare pension
• Access to Blue Light Card
• Free uniform
• Free DBS
• Full induction, including mandatory training updates
• Opportunities for further training and progression into permanent posts
• Knowledge, support and guidance through your recruitment journey from Spire's specialist Resourcing Team

We commit to our employees well-being through work life balance, on-going development, support and reward.

Our Values

• We are extremely proud of our heritage in private healthcare and of our values as an organisation
• Driving clinical excellence
• Doing the right thing
• Caring is our passion
• Keeping it simple
• Delivering on our promisesSucceeding and celebrating together

Our people are our difference; it's their dedication, warmth and pursuit of excellence that sets Spire Healthcare apart.

For us,it's more than just treating patients; it's about looking after people.

Closing date: In order to streamline our recruitment process, we reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications.