Catering Operative - Scarborough | York Teaching Hospital Facilities Management’
| Posting date: | 12 April 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £22,383 pro rata |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 12 May 2024 |
| Location: | Scarborough, YO12 6QL |
| Company: | York Teaching Hospital Facilities Management |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6140881/419-6140881-CO-FM |
Summary
Contract Type - Permanent
Hours - 8 hours with various shifts 5.30pm - 7.30pm or 5.50pm -7.50pm working 4 evenings per week including weekends
Base - Scarborough
Are you a strong team player, friendly and motivated? Then we may have the role for you!
Scarborough Hospital Catering Department requires an enthusiastic Catering Operatives to work mainly in the Patient Satellite areas of the Catering Department, but could be asked to work in the Main Kitchen, Dining Room.
Applicants must be able to demonstrate the ability to be adaptable and flexible, in order to work variable hours. You must be able to use initiative, be self-motivated and have strong interpersonal and organisational/time management skills,
Applicants must be able to work under pressure, prioritise their own workload and be able to carry out physical tasks.
Duties include,but are not limited to:
• Delivering food to and taking patient food to the wards areas
• Using ward ovens to regenerate food
• Keeping the kitchen areas clean
• Monitoring food temperatures as part of HACCP
• Washing up and other general cleaning duties.
• The role also could involve working in cold rooms to pick patient food and also working in pot wash.
The ideal candidate will have catering experience, be fantastic with customers, a good team player and able to work on their own unsupervised. Full training will also be provided. Enhanced rates apply when working at the weekend.
Our benefits
We offer a range of benefits to support our staff including:
• National terms and conditions for NHS workers
• Competitive minimum hourly rate of£11.45.
• Enhanced Pay for unsocial hours worked – unsocial hours are any hours worked on weekends or between the hours of 8pm and 6am. At Band 2, the enhancements are: all time on Saturday (midnight to midnight) and any week day after 8 pm and before 6 am – time plus 41%(£16.14per hour) or all time on Sundays and Public Holidays (midnight to midnight) – time plus 83%(£20.95 per hour).
• Paid training
• Free uniform
• 27 days paid holiday (pro rata for part time) plus bank holidays
• Increased paid holiday allowance after 5 and 10 years service
• Access to the NHS Pension Schem
• Onsite staff shop and discounted restaurant on main sites
• Generous occupational family leave entitlement and occupational sick pay
YTHFM are currently funding level 1 membership of a Tailored Healthcare Cash Plan for all substantive Band 2 and 3 staff, on a trial basis and as a gesture of goodwill. This provides employees with access to a range of benefits, including refunding the costs of optical and dental services, physiotherapy and wellbeing treatments, up to defined limits. This does not form part of our terms and conditions of employment and could be withdrawn at any time. We also offer discounted membership of Westfield Health’s standard Plan for staff on bank contracts or employed in Band 4 or above.
A full description of the role is available in the attachment: job description.
Working for the Trust
Across our organisation, people are guided by values that were co-developed with staff: we are kind; we are open; and we pursue excellence.
Our values play into our ambition to develop a more diverse workforce, truly representative of our communities. We welcome applications from everyone, while working with our Staff Networks - including our Race Equality, LGBTQ+, Disability and Carers Networks - to increase the number of applications we receive from different backgrounds. If there is anything we can do to make our application process more accessible to you, please contact: yhs-tr.recruitment@nhs.net
As part of seeking to become more inclusive, we will consider requests for flexible working from the start of your employment. It may not be suitable for every role, but we will try and be supportive where we can. We would encourage you to speak to the recruiting manager named within this advert to discuss any requirements you may have.
Armed Forces Friendly Employer
We are holders of the Gold Award from the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme, which is helping actively promote SaBRE - Supporting Britain’s Reservists and Employers. This means that we have made a statement of intent to support all Defence personnel, including with applications for employment.
COVID-19 Vaccination Requirements
Our Trust continues to strongly encourage our staff to be vaccinated against COVID19, this remains our best defence to protect our patients, ourselves and everyone else.
This advert closes on Sunday 28 Apr 2024
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