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Simply Serve Limited
About
Simply Serve Limited provide a range of important enabling services to Somerset NHS Foundation Trust including:
| Estate Management | Capital Projects |
| Catering | Equipment library |
| Facilities | Financial services |
| Grounds and gardens | Health & safety |
| Hotel services | IT Services |
| Logistics | Maintenance |
| Medical Electronics | Portering |
| Procurement | Security |
| Sterile services | Switchboard |
| Ward Assistants & Domestics |
If you are successful you will be employed by Simply Serve Limited (SSL), which is wholly owned by Somerset NHS Foundation Trust. You will be working within Somerset NHS Foundation Trust, and the values, culture and objectives will be closely aligned to those of the NHS.
Catering Assistant
Closed for applications on: 8-Feb-2023 09:52
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 8-Feb-2023 09:52
Key details
Location
- Site
- Yeovil District Hospital
- Town
- Yeovil
- Postcode
- BA21 4AT
- Major / Minor Region
- Somerset
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 30 hours per week
Salary
- Salary
- £19,940 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (Grade A)
Specialty
- Main area
- Catering
This vacancy within Simply Serve Limited is advertised and appears under the authority of Somerset NHS Foundation Trust.
Job overview
Our busy Catering Department is looking for enthusiastic and adaptable Catering Assistants to join our busy Catering team working 30 hours each week.
The Catering Team delivers a high quality catering and retail service to staff and patients throughout the hospital. The working hours for the role are:
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You will provide a range of support to our catering team which includes picking patient food orders, food deliveries, retail services, cleaning services, front servery & operating till systems.
Food Safety Level 2 food hygiene qualification would be desirable but full training will be provided.
Working for our organisation
Yeovil Hospital is an ambitious and friendly Trust that is proud to provide acute care for a population of more than 225,000 people in South Somerset, North and West Dorset and parts of Mendip. The hospital has 345 beds, a busy Emergency Department, a variety of outpatient and diagnostics services, and a private patients’ wing which offers a personal service in state-of-the-art clinical facilities, with all profits being invested back into NHS healthcare.
Yeovil Hospital’s iCARE model, which has established the principles of exemplary patient care, patient and employee experience, has attracted national interest and is embedded in everything we do, following our vision to care for our patients as if they are one of our family. The Trust’s shared vision has led to our staff rating Yeovil Hospital the best in England for employee health and wellbeing for the third year running in the annual NHS staff survey 2020.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Earn up to £13.23 per hour (for shifts attracting unsocial hours enhancements), 25 days paid holiday plus bank holiday allowance, enhanced sick pay scheme and a wide range of NHS discounts with both local and national businesses.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For a full list of duties and responsibilities, please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification.
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Person specification
Knowledge & Skills
Essential criteria
- Good communication skills
- Have a good understanding of the English language, both spoken and written
Experience
Desirable criteria
- Previous experience of working in an NHS catering or similar environment
- Knowledge of retail operations
Qualifications
Desirable criteria
- GCSE in Maths and English or equivalent
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Derek James
- Job title
- Lead Chef
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01935384218
No longer accepting applications
Sorry, this vacancy is no longer accepting applications.
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