Job summary
To provide meals staff and patient meals as directed by the Supervisor/manager
To provide a customer focused, quality food service
Preparing, cooking, and serving of meals as instructed, working in partnership with the Trust dietician and therapists
Toensure availability of required diets.
To take part in initiatives relating to improving services within the department in delivering the NHS plan objectives
To ensure food items are presented in line with Food Safety Regulations and Trust policy
To ensure the quality, presentation, and temperature of food on offer within the restaurant
Hospitality
To work, as part of a team in the provision of Catering Services to Staff, Visitors and Patients, ensuring the service provided is customer focused.
To work in a safe and hygienic manner, ensuring the highest standard of food safety.
To maintain the highest standard of personal and professional presentation
To allocate duties to staff under your supervision.
Main duties of the job
1.1 To comply with safe working practices as directed
1.2 To assist in the preparation of menus including the ordering of produce as required, ensuring that quality, quantity, temperature, and appearance of the completed dishes are of the highest possible standard.
1.3 To ensure that deliveries are received, checked, and securely stored in the agreed manner, ensuring compliance with the departments stock rotation policy for food and non-food items
1.4 To undertake preparation and/or cooking of specialised meals, dietetic meals as required, by the Clinical Nutritionists.
1.5 To ensure compliance in the preparation and portioning of food items for patients, staff and functions as required.
1.6 To ensure appropriate garnishes are made available for meal service as required.
1.7 To liaise with ward staff, patients, and customers.
1.8 To record meal temperatures as instructed by the head chef/Manager.
1.9 To work in a safe manner, keeping work areas clean at all times.
About us
Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To comply with safe working practices as directed
1.2 To assist in the preparation of menus including the ordering of produce as required, ensuring that quality, quantity, temperature, and appearance of the completed dishes are of the highest possible standard.
1.3 To ensure that deliveries are received, checked, and securely stored in the agreed manner, ensuring compliance with the departments stock rotation policy for food and non-food items.
1.4 To undertake preparation and/or cooking of specialised meals, dietetic meals as required, by the Clinical Nutritionists.
1.5 To ensure compliance in the preparation and portioning of food items for patients, staff and functions as required.
1.6 To ensure appropriate garnishes are made available for meal service as required.
1.7 To liaise with ward staff, patients, and customers.
1.8 To record meal temperatures as instructed by the head chef/Manager.
1.9 To work in a safe manner, keeping work areas clean at all times.
1.10 To comply with the departments Cleaning Schedules and Hygiene controls.
1.11 To report faults, breakages or potential hazards of equipment or fabric of the Hospital to the Estates Help desk.
1.12 To attend training courses on and off the job
1.13 To ensure most efficient use of energy and utilities in the provision of the Catering Service in achieving energy efficient targets for the Service.
1.14 To undertake extra duties, commensurate with the duties of this job description as directed by departmental managers.
1.15 To complete Quality and Hygiene Monitoring control forms and records as required
1.16 To assist in the provision of special events, hospitalities and/or theme days
1.17 To maintain set standards of food and personal hygiene and personal appearance in accordance with the department's hygiene policy.
1.18 To ensure the service meets agreed service levels in respect of quality, quantity, presentation, and Food Safety standards, (General Food Hygiene) Regulations 1995.
1.19 To comply with the departments Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point procedure.
1.20 To undertake staff appraisal within agreed guidelines
1.21 To work with minimum supervision and be prepared to undertake any other duties appropriate to the grade and post.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To comply with safe working practices as directed
1.2 To assist in the preparation of menus including the ordering of produce as required, ensuring that quality, quantity, temperature, and appearance of the completed dishes are of the highest possible standard.
1.3 To ensure that deliveries are received, checked, and securely stored in the agreed manner, ensuring compliance with the departments stock rotation policy for food and non-food items.
1.4 To undertake preparation and/or cooking of specialised meals, dietetic meals as required, by the Clinical Nutritionists.
1.5 To ensure compliance in the preparation and portioning of food items for patients, staff and functions as required.
1.6 To ensure appropriate garnishes are made available for meal service as required.
1.7 To liaise with ward staff, patients, and customers.
1.8 To record meal temperatures as instructed by the head chef/Manager.
1.9 To work in a safe manner, keeping work areas clean at all times.
1.10 To comply with the departments Cleaning Schedules and Hygiene controls.
1.11 To report faults, breakages or potential hazards of equipment or fabric of the Hospital to the Estates Help desk.
1.12 To attend training courses on and off the job
1.13 To ensure most efficient use of energy and utilities in the provision of the Catering Service in achieving energy efficient targets for the Service.
1.14 To undertake extra duties, commensurate with the duties of this job description as directed by departmental managers.
1.15 To complete Quality and Hygiene Monitoring control forms and records as required
1.16 To assist in the provision of special events, hospitalities and/or theme days
1.17 To maintain set standards of food and personal hygiene and personal appearance in accordance with the department's hygiene policy.
1.18 To ensure the service meets agreed service levels in respect of quality, quantity, presentation, and Food Safety standards, (General Food Hygiene) Regulations 1995.
1.19 To comply with the departments Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point procedure.
1.20 To undertake staff appraisal within agreed guidelines
1.21 To work with minimum supervision and be prepared to undertake any other duties appropriate to the grade and post.
Person Specification
Skills
Essential
- Ability to undertake the manual handling requirements of the role
- Ability to follow instructions and procedures
- Able to work to set production timescales.
- Attention to detail
- Able to work as a member of a team, also with minimum supervision
Knowledge
Essential
- Health and Safety at work requirements.
- Principles and benefits of Healthy Eating.
- Knowledge of dietary and nutritional requirements
- Knowledge and understanding of Equal Opportunity principle and practice.
Desirable
- Awareness of sustainable Environmental initiatives relating to the work environment
Experience
Essential
- Ability to prepare and present meals to set standards
- Able to work within a diverse organisation
Desirable
- Experience of working in a busy catering environment
Qualifications
Essential
- Catering qualification - or equivalent training/experience.
Desirable
- Basic Food Hygiene or equivalent
- Intermediate Food Hygiene Certificate.
Personal Qulaities
Essential
- Able to comply with all aspects of food hygiene legislation and practices
- Self reliant, motivated
- Flexible to the needs of the service
- Able to organise and plan own workload
- Pragmatic approach with the ability to "get things done"; within agreed time table
- Ability to communicate effectively with staff at all levels.
- Pleasant and affable personality.
- High standard of kitchen hygiene and tidiness.
Desirable
- Able to demonstrate Customer Care principles
Person Specification
Skills
Essential
- Ability to undertake the manual handling requirements of the role
- Ability to follow instructions and procedures
- Able to work to set production timescales.
- Attention to detail
- Able to work as a member of a team, also with minimum supervision
Knowledge
Essential
- Health and Safety at work requirements.
- Principles and benefits of Healthy Eating.
- Knowledge of dietary and nutritional requirements
- Knowledge and understanding of Equal Opportunity principle and practice.
Desirable
- Awareness of sustainable Environmental initiatives relating to the work environment
Experience
Essential
- Ability to prepare and present meals to set standards
- Able to work within a diverse organisation
Desirable
- Experience of working in a busy catering environment
Qualifications
Essential
- Catering qualification - or equivalent training/experience.
Desirable
- Basic Food Hygiene or equivalent
- Intermediate Food Hygiene Certificate.
Personal Qulaities
Essential
- Able to comply with all aspects of food hygiene legislation and practices
- Self reliant, motivated
- Flexible to the needs of the service
- Able to organise and plan own workload
- Pragmatic approach with the ability to "get things done"; within agreed time table
- Ability to communicate effectively with staff at all levels.
- Pleasant and affable personality.
- High standard of kitchen hygiene and tidiness.
Desirable
- Able to demonstrate Customer Care principles
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.
