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The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust
About
About us
The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust (PAHT) provides a full range of general acute, outpatient and diagnostic services at The Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow, the Herts and Essex Hospital in Bishop’s Stortford, and St Margaret’s Hospital in Epping.
We employ 4,000 people and serve a local population of around 350,000 people living in west Essex and east Hertfordshire, centred on the M11 corridor and the towns of Harlow, Bishop’s Stortford and Epping. Our extended catchment area incorporates a population of up to 500,000 and includes the areas of Hoddesdon, Cheshunt and Broxbourne in Hertfordshire.
The values and standards of the hospital
Our Princess Alexandra Promise to our patients as identified by our 3 values which will contribute to improving our patient experiences:
Patient at heart – Always holding the patient and their wellbeing at the centre of our thoughts and efforts
Everyday excellence – Sharing and celebrating our successes, being honest when we get it wrong, giving us the ability to learn from both
Creative collaboration – Knowing strength comes from diversity, we combine our experiences, skills and talents, working together to find new and better ways to care
We believes in investing in all our staff and rewarding high standards of care whilst building for excellence and in return we expect our staff to uphold the Trust values to the highest level.
Kitchen/Retail Assistant
Accepting applications until: 08-Nov-2024 08:00
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 08-Nov-2024 08:00
Key details
Location
- Site
- Princess Alexandra Hospital
- Address
- Hamstel Road
- Town
- Harlow
- Postcode
- CM20 1QX
- Major / Minor Region
- Essex
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent: 15 hours per week
- Hours
- Part time - 15 hours per week (includes weekends and bank holidays if rostered duty day)
Salary
- Salary
- £23,615 pro rata per annum plus 5% high cost area supplement
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS AfC: Band 2)
Specialty
- Main area
- CATERING
The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust (PAHT) provides a full range of general acute, outpatient and diagnostic services at The Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow, the Herts and Essex Hospital in Bishop’s Stortford, and St Margaret’s Hospital in Epping.
Our values
The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust (PAHT) promise to our patients, as identified by our three values which will contribute to improving our patients’ experiences, is:
Patient at heart – Always holding the patient and their wellbeing at the centre of our thoughts and efforts.
Everyday excellence – Sharing and celebrating our successes, being honest when we get it wrong, giving us the ability to learn from both.
Creative collaboration – Knowing strength comes from diversity, we combine our experiences, skills and talents, working together to find new and better ways to care.
Job overview
We are looking for kitchen/retail assistants to support our busy catering team at the Princess Alexandra Hospital. You will be part of a dedicated team and work alongside our main kitchen team to support them in the preparing of meals for our patients and people, also ensuring our work areas and equipment are clean to highest standard.
We actively support the development of our team to ensure they learn and grow with us. We are able to offer support with your professional development, including funding of qualifications in food hygiene and we also offer a number of apprenticeships.
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Your day-to-day duties will include:
- Supporting our chefs with kitchen operations
- Providing a support service to the kitchen [cold food prep and cleaning]
- Working as part of a team in the Central Dish wash and Pot Wash area
- Receiving and storing of food items
- Operation of tills and money handling ,
- Keeping the department stocked of all produce.
- Full cleaning
- Documentation completing
We can offer flexible shifts to ensure we cover our service from 6am to 7pm, 7 days a week.
When you start with us you will have a comprehensive 6-month probationary period to ensure you are properly supported as you learn your new job and what is expected; ensuring we identify any training and development needs and put objectives in place to support you in your role and career with us.
Working for our organisation
The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust (PAHT) provides a full range of general acute, outpatient and diagnostic services at The Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow, the Herts and Essex Hospital in Bishop’s Stortford, and St Margaret’s Hospital in Epping.
We employ 3,500 staff and serve a local population of around 350,000 people living in west Essex and east Hertfordshire, centred on the M11 corridor and the towns of Harlow, Bishop’s Stortford and Epping. Our extended catchment area incorporates a population of up to 500,000 and includes the areas of Hoddesdon, Cheshunt and Broxbourne in Hertfordshire.
Our Values
The Princess Alexandra Promise to our patients as identified by our 3 values which will contribute to improving our patient experiences:
Patient at heart – Always holding the patient and their wellbeing at the centre of our thoughts and efforts
Everyday excellence – Sharing and celebrating our successes, being honest when we get it wrong, giving us the ability to learn from both
Creative collaboration – Knowing strength comes from diversity, we combine our experiences, skills and talents, working together to find new and better ways to care
The Trust believes in investing in all our staff and rewarding high standards of care whilst building for excellence and in return we expect our staff to uphold the Trust values to the highest level.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- General cleaning of all areas associated with the catering department [e.g. working surfaces, equipment, floors, walls, stores area etc.] whilst using the appropriate cleaning materials/chemicals/equipment for the job, wearing the specified personal protective clothing and completing cleaning schedule documentation
- Support chefs with kitchen operations providing patients & public meal preparation via the mobile bulk trolley service or from time to time by any other means deemed necessary in line with business/patient needs
For further detail please see the 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
Experience
Essential criteria
- previous catering experience
Desirable criteria
- Food hygiene training
application form
Essential criteria
- Experience in customer service
Desirable criteria
- Previous café /restaurant experience
Knowledge, skills and experience
Essential criteria
- Ability to use industrial cleaning equipment
- Previous catering experience
Desirable criteria
- Catering experience
Education and qualifications
Essential criteria
- Numerate and literate
Desirable criteria
- Good all round education
- Basic Food Hygiene certificate
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Claire Bishop
- Job title
- Chef Production Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01279827087
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