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Patient Services Assistant Catering
Posted 8 hours 16 minutes ago by NHS
Closing date: 05 July 2026
An exciting opportunity has arisen in the Patient Services Department within the facilities division.
Catering duties will be to provide a high standard of food and drink service to ward areas within Chesterfield Royal Hospital. Other duties include ensuring all kitchen areas are cleaned efficiently and in a timely manner to the required specified standards in line with Trust policy and ensuring patients' meals are served efficiently to assure food quality and to meet the required specification, in line with Trust policy.
Hours of work:
08:00hrs to 14:30hrs working 1 day per week.
15:00-19:00hrs working 4 days per week.
The rota will be based on a 22 hour a week contract working on a 10-week rota basis which will include some weekends and bank holidays or working Monday to Friday which will include bank holidays.
Main duties of the jobCatering duties will be to provide a high standard of food and drink service to ward areas within Chesterfield Royal Hospital. Caterers must ensure patients' meals are served efficiently to assure food quality and to meet the required specification, in line with Trust policy.
Other duties include ensuring all kitchen areas and offices are cleaned efficiently and in a timely manner to the required specified standards in line with Trust policy.
About usDerbyshire Support and Facilities Services Ltd. (DSFS) is a subsidiary company that's 100% owned by Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.
DSFS has just under 1000 staff across Soft and Hard Facilities Services, and our corporate services including ICT, Patient Records, Switchboard, Procurement, Finance and Clinical Engineering. Part of the 'Chesterfield Royal family', DSFS builds on solid NHS foundations to offer a more commercial approach that's dynamic, flexible, and proactive.
DSFS is proud to be striving to achieve a truly diverse and inclusive flexible workforce by valuing and welcoming everyone's abilities, uniqueness, and individuality. All our colleagues have the right to and should be able to feel 100% themselves at work; we believe that all our people add to and should improve our culture and not just fit in with it.
Derbyshire Support and Facilities Services Limited currently do not offer a Certificate of Sponsorship, any applications which require sponsorship will not be considered.
Job responsibilitiesPlease see the Job Description and Person Specification attached to this vacancy. This document contains a full detailed description of the role and what the main responsibilities and duties are along with the criteria that is required.
Person Specification Qualifications- To be able to read and understand to the required standard.
- Basic education to include Maths and English.
- Level 2 Food Safety and Hygiene Certificate.
- Understanding the importance of confidentiality.
- Experience of working in a hospital environment.
- Previous experience in a similar environment.
- Good communication skills both written and verbal.
- Ability to work alone and as part of a team.
- Basic Knowledge of Health and Safety and COSHH regulations.
- Basic IT skills.
- Flexible and reliable attitude to working arrangements.
- Ability to work alone and as part of a team.
- Able to undertake the physical aspects of the post.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Employer name: Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
