Catering Assist - Cold Room

Job summary

A vacancy has arisen for a motivated person to join the "Cold Prep Section" in the Catering department at University Hospitals Dorset.

This is a very demanding job and requires a good level of physical fitness, flexibility, and good organisational skills.

You should be able to work with minimal supervision on your own initiative in this busy location.

Duties include, making sandwiches, salads, baguettes, Panini's and salad bar preparation. In addition, some general cleaning is required and a possibility of helping on the patient production line.

Due to working in the cold room, cold weather clothing will be provided including:

Boots , socks, thermal garments, snoods and sweatshirts as required.

Base Location: Poole Hospital

Interview Date: TBC

Main duties of the job

To understand the role in more detail please read the full job description and person specification documents which are attached to this advert.

About us

What working for us will provide:

• Generous Starting Salary
• Enhanced Pay for unsocial hours worked (weekend).
• No split shifts
• Paid training
• Free uniform
• 27 days paid holiday (pro rata for part time) plus bank holidays
• Increased holiday allowance after 5 and 10 years' service
• Enrolment in the NHS Pension Scheme
• Salary sacrifice scheme opportunities - including childcare vouchers, car lease and cycle scheme, home technology equipment
• Staff Rates on Items in the Catering Departments retail outlets.
• NHS discounts to save on your shopping, gym membership and more

Our values define who we are as #TeamUHD. They underpin everything we do now and in the future. They define howwe treat our patients, visitors, and each other, our valued teammates and colleagues.UHD are investing in services across the Trust, with many being transformed and developed following merger and the New Hospital Programme.This means that some services may move site this year or next, either temporarily or long term. Recruiting Managers interviewing for this role will be happy to answer any specific questions that you have about this at interview.

Please note if the role or service is relocated as part of a planned move, employees will not be eligible for excessmileage reimbursement. Travel from the postholder's home to the new work base will be considered a normalcommute. Any other changes not related to this relocation will be managed according to the relevant Trust or Nationalterms and conditions.