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Food Servery Assistants

St Andrew’s Healthcare

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Job summary

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

Salary: £21,562 per annum

Location: Northampton, Northamptonshire

Full time 37.5 hours per week (Inc. every other weekend working)

Shift Times Available:

10.30am until 6.30pm

11.00am until 7.00pm

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.

Main duties of the job

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 To ensure good practice in relation to the stock rotation and the discarding of out of date food.
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; 35 days annual leave (including bank holidays), increasing to 41 after 10 years' service; Life cover; Our newly launched Electric Car scheme; Cycle to work scheme; Healthcare cash plan; Free parking; Paid DBS application; Access to free vocational qualifications.

About us

You can achieve more at St Andrews Healthcare

St Andrews Healthcare is a charity providing specialist mental healthcare services. We work in partnership with a number of NHS, voluntary, educational and research organisations to deliver a range of specialist inpatient and community mental healthcare services, education and research that helps to improve the lives of people with complex mental health needs.

Our patients and your colleagues will expect you to live the St Andrews CARE values of Compassion, Accountability, Respect and Excellence every

Date posted

12 December 2023

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£21,562 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

B0354-35653

Job locations

St. Andrews

Billing Road

Northampton

NN1 5DG

Job description

Job responsibilities

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.
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.

Job description

Job responsibilities

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.
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.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

Previous experience in Handling Food
Previous experience In food preparation

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

Previous experience in Handling Food
Previous experience In food preparation

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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 details

Employer name

St Andrew’s Healthcare

Address

St. Andrews

Billing Road

Northampton

NN1 5DG

Employer's website

https://www.stah.org (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

St Andrew’s Healthcare

Address

St. Andrews

Billing Road

Northampton

NN1 5DG

Employer's website

https://www.stah.org (Opens in a new tab)

For questions about the job, contact:

Recruitment Advisor

Katie Ann Carroll

kcarroll@standrew.co.uk

01604872660

Date posted

12 December 2023

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£21,562 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

B0354-35653

Job locations

St. Andrews

Billing Road

Northampton

NN1 5DG

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