Bank Host and Catering Assistant

Catering Assistant Manchester Day / Evening / Weekend Shift Cover Flexible working hours 12.76 per hour excellent benefits

Spire Manchester Hospital has an exciting opportunity for a Catering Assistant to join our dynamic and experienced hospitality team working on an as and when basis to help cover sickness and annual leave in our team.

Spire Manchester Hospital offers a comprehensive range of specialist treatments in purpose-built private hospital facilities in Didsbury. Part of the award-winning Spire healthcare group were world-class experts offering fast access to specialised and personalised healthcare using some of the latest diagnostic and treatment technologies.

Working Hours:Varied shifts across 7 days a week
Contract type: Bank/Zero hours

As Catering Assistant you will be responsible to assist in the preparation and delivery of a high standard of food and beverage service to patients visitors consultants and staff.

Duties and Responsibilities (not limited to):

• To assist as directed with preparation presentation and service of food and beverages to the
  specified standard to staff patients and consultants
• To assist with the service of food to staff consultants visitors and patients in both the restaurant
  and wards
• To pro-actively engage with patients to raise awareness of the availability of a food and
  beverage service that can be tailored to suit their individual needs
• To take orders from customers in relation to food and beverage requests adhering to any
  special dietary requirements or specific needs
• To maintain adequate control of all stock through stock rotation date checking and ensuring
  packaging is intact
• To adhere to all statutory regulations pertaining to the safety and hygienic operation of the
  kitchen and ancillary areas as per the catering policy
• To comply with the health and safety procedures in accordance with current legislation
• To undertake general cleaning and washing up duties associated with a large commercial
  kitchen in accordance with a schedule of works
• To maintain a high standard of cleanliness and hygiene in all tasks and duties

Who are we looking for

• Experience of working in a catering role
• Good communication and organisational skills
• Excellent customer care skills
• Ability to work without supervision
• Caring and sympathetic
• Ability to work evenings and possibly some weekends
• Able to work flexible hours to meet the needs of the department

Benefits

• Bank colleagues are paid weekly
• We offer competitive rates to our bank colleagues who work on a flexible basis often to cover busy periods sickness or annual leave
• Save an average of 50 per month with our free onsite car park
• Access to Spire Healthcare pension
• Free uniform
• Free DBS
• Full induction including mandatory training updates
• Opportunities for further training and progression into permanent posts
• Knowledge support and guidance through your recruitment journey from Spires specialist Resourcing Team

We commit to our employees well-being through work life balance on-going development support and reward.

Our Values

We are extremely proud of our heritage in private healthcare and of our values as an organisation:

• Driving clinical excellence
• Doing the right thing
• Caring is our passion
• Keeping it simple
• Delivering on our promises
• Succeeding and celebrating together

Spire Healthcare is a leading independent hospital group in the United Kingdom and the largest in terms of revenue. From 39 hospitals and over 50 clinics across England Wales and Scotland Spire Healthcare provides diagnostics inpatient day case and outpatient care.

For usits more than just treating patients; its about looking after people.

Closing date: In order to streamline our recruitment process we reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications.