Job summary
East Coast Community Healtcare C.I.C. Estates and facilities department are currently looking for a Kitchen team assistant to join the small team providing catering services to Beccles Hospital,ward. A vital role which assists with patient care.
The role covers a two week rota, working specific days and shifts. Five shifts over a two week period which breaks down to 16.5 hours a week. The post is paid at NHS Band 2, pro rata. Holiday and sickness are covered within the NHS terms and conditions to which ECCH are aligned.
The role in general involves lone working in a small kitchen helping in the provision of providing 3 meals a day, regenerating patient meals and sandwiches, providing drinks when requested.
You will also be responsible for cleaning all areas of the kitchen work area and at times the dining room.
Main duties of the job
Working to the government and NHS health and hygiene regulations to Provide patient food and drink at set times.
Working to set time frames.
Using a food regeneration system.
Keeping all records.
Ensuring all records are updated for governance compliance.
Carrying out stock checks.
Ordering kitchen supplies, food and cleaning products.
At times providing food and drink adhoc upon request.
Washing up.
Fault reporting.
Opportunity at times for covering vacant shifts when other team members are on holiday of off at short notice.
About us
ECCH is well established health care provider and has been successfully delivering NHS care within the community since 2011. We provide a range of NHS, community health and social care services predominantly across the easterly region of the Norfolk/Suffolk borders.
We are aligned to NHS terms and conditions, and offer many employee benefits, to find out more about us visit our website - www.ecch.org. We are a social enterprise and staff owned organisation which means staff can opt to be shareholders and have a real say in how ECCH is run and evolves to deliver healthcare for the future.
At the heart of our ambition, we work in partnership with and for the community to become the provider and employer of choice for community healthcare.
We encourage you to apply as early as possible as this job may close earlier than the advertised closing date once enough applications have been received.
You will be part of a conscientious team working hard to provide a vital service to patients.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Complying with Policy and instruction regarding NHS and Food standards agency protocols.
- Reporting to the hotel services team lead.
- Primarily working within a kitchen in a busy ward area.
- Responsible for prioritising and organising your own working routine encompassing your required duties.
- Checking kitchen cleanliness before starting your shift.
Clean all touch points and kitchen areas at the end of each shift.
Catering
- Ensure that patient meals and drinks are prepared correctly and delivered on time to the ward level point of nursing staff service delivery.
- All food and beverages are to be delivered to the delivery point for nursing staff to then distribute to patients
- The regeneration -cooking of chilled/ frozen meals at Ward level, ensuring procedures are followed with regard to safety and the cooking cycle and service of breakfast, lunch and supper to patients.
- Prepare sandwiches and salads as required.
- Ensure that Food Safety and food temperature regulations are adhered to and all required paperwork is completed.
- Carry out other catering procedures including, setting of tables (accounting for all cutlery), clearing of tables / servery, loading & unloading of ward and kitchen dishwasher etc.
- Checking stock levels and control.
- Placing order requests Every Sunday/Monday for all food and equipment with the team lead by
- 08.30 every Monday morning.
- Ensuring stock rotation is carried out when receiving, putting stock away.
- Recording fridge temperatures and fridge usage.
- Recording delivered food temperature prior to hand over.
- Ensure the kitchen unit is clean and tidy, including all kitchen equipment, crockery, cutlery and utensils.
- Make patient beverages (on average 5 beverage rounds delivered throughout the day to nursing staff for checking and onward delivery to patients.
- In extreme circumstance and only under the direction of the senior clinical nurse in charge you may be requested to assist nursing staff, during staff shortages with the feeding of patients. In these circumstances each individual meal and drink delivery is to be under direct nursing supervision.
- Maintaining your required mandatory training requirements for compliance.
- Use electronic systems provided for reporting, learning and compliance.
All roles within East Coast Community Healthcare CIC (ECCH) require staff to demonstrate our Values and Signature Behaviours in the care and service they provide to patients, service users, stakeholders and colleagues. All members of staff should consider these as an essential part of their job role.
Our Values outline the core behaviours that we can all achieve and are summarised as an acronym within the word CARE. These stand for: Compassion, Action, Respect and Everyone.
Underpinning our Values are our Signature Behaviours which highlight by taking the right actions we continue to build a strong culture. Our four Signature Behaviours are: Compassion - We Listen, We Learn, We Lead| Action - My Accountability, My Responsibility | Respect - Respect Our Resources: People, Time and Money | Everyone - Work Together, Achieve Together.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Complying with Policy and instruction regarding NHS and Food standards agency protocols.
- Reporting to the hotel services team lead.
- Primarily working within a kitchen in a busy ward area.
- Responsible for prioritising and organising your own working routine encompassing your required duties.
- Checking kitchen cleanliness before starting your shift.
Clean all touch points and kitchen areas at the end of each shift.
Catering
- Ensure that patient meals and drinks are prepared correctly and delivered on time to the ward level point of nursing staff service delivery.
- All food and beverages are to be delivered to the delivery point for nursing staff to then distribute to patients
- The regeneration -cooking of chilled/ frozen meals at Ward level, ensuring procedures are followed with regard to safety and the cooking cycle and service of breakfast, lunch and supper to patients.
- Prepare sandwiches and salads as required.
- Ensure that Food Safety and food temperature regulations are adhered to and all required paperwork is completed.
- Carry out other catering procedures including, setting of tables (accounting for all cutlery), clearing of tables / servery, loading & unloading of ward and kitchen dishwasher etc.
- Checking stock levels and control.
- Placing order requests Every Sunday/Monday for all food and equipment with the team lead by
- 08.30 every Monday morning.
- Ensuring stock rotation is carried out when receiving, putting stock away.
- Recording fridge temperatures and fridge usage.
- Recording delivered food temperature prior to hand over.
- Ensure the kitchen unit is clean and tidy, including all kitchen equipment, crockery, cutlery and utensils.
- Make patient beverages (on average 5 beverage rounds delivered throughout the day to nursing staff for checking and onward delivery to patients.
- In extreme circumstance and only under the direction of the senior clinical nurse in charge you may be requested to assist nursing staff, during staff shortages with the feeding of patients. In these circumstances each individual meal and drink delivery is to be under direct nursing supervision.
- Maintaining your required mandatory training requirements for compliance.
- Use electronic systems provided for reporting, learning and compliance.
All roles within East Coast Community Healthcare CIC (ECCH) require staff to demonstrate our Values and Signature Behaviours in the care and service they provide to patients, service users, stakeholders and colleagues. All members of staff should consider these as an essential part of their job role.
Our Values outline the core behaviours that we can all achieve and are summarised as an acronym within the word CARE. These stand for: Compassion, Action, Respect and Everyone.
Underpinning our Values are our Signature Behaviours which highlight by taking the right actions we continue to build a strong culture. Our four Signature Behaviours are: Compassion - We Listen, We Learn, We Lead| Action - My Accountability, My Responsibility | Respect - Respect Our Resources: People, Time and Money | Everyone - Work Together, Achieve Together.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- GCSE C or above in Maths and English or the equivalent education certificates
- Good literacy skills
- Basic food hygiene certificate if out of date you will be required to hold one for the role but can work towards obtaining it if accepted for the post.
Desirable
- Educated to GCSE grade C or above in English and Maths
- To have an understanding of NHS cleaning standards
- Basic food hygiene certificate
Experience
Essential
- Experience with working within a kitchen is required
Desirable
- To have worked as a domestic in a care environment.
- Previous NHS experience
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
Desirable
- Willingness to learn.
- Knowledge of COSHH
Personal Attributes
Essential
- Ability to work alone unsupervised
- Ability to manager time effectively
- Ability to use own initiative to manage the requirements of the job.
- Ability to embrace our Culture, Values and Signature Behaviours:
- (Compassion - We Listen, We Learn, We Lead| Action - My Accountability, My Responsibility | Respect - Respect Our Resources: People, Time and Money | Everyone - Work Together, Achieve Together).
- Willingness and ability to work across different sites and travel to alternative sites and across the community as required.
Desirable
- Good time keeping.
- Enjoy working around people.
- Accepts responsibility.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- GCSE C or above in Maths and English or the equivalent education certificates
- Good literacy skills
- Basic food hygiene certificate if out of date you will be required to hold one for the role but can work towards obtaining it if accepted for the post.
Desirable
- Educated to GCSE grade C or above in English and Maths
- To have an understanding of NHS cleaning standards
- Basic food hygiene certificate
Experience
Essential
- Experience with working within a kitchen is required
Desirable
- To have worked as a domestic in a care environment.
- Previous NHS experience
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
Desirable
- Willingness to learn.
- Knowledge of COSHH
Personal Attributes
Essential
- Ability to work alone unsupervised
- Ability to manager time effectively
- Ability to use own initiative to manage the requirements of the job.
- Ability to embrace our Culture, Values and Signature Behaviours:
- (Compassion - We Listen, We Learn, We Lead| Action - My Accountability, My Responsibility | Respect - Respect Our Resources: People, Time and Money | Everyone - Work Together, Achieve Together).
- Willingness and ability to work across different sites and travel to alternative sites and across the community as required.
Desirable
- Good time keeping.
- Enjoy working around people.
- Accepts responsibility.
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.
