Catering Technician
Closing date: 12 June 2026
We have exciting opportunities for Catering Technicians to join our dedicated and hardworking catering team. We are looking for reliable, flexible individuals with good communication skills who work well as part of a team. Previous catering experience is desirable. In this role, you will help provide a high‑quality meal service for patients, visitors, and staff across the Trust.
Positions available (contracted posts)
- 15 hours per week – 3‑hour shifts across 5 days
- 22.5 hours per week – 7.5‑hour shifts across 3 days
- 30 hours per week – 7.5‑hour shifts across 4 days
The kitchen operates from 6am to 7pm, Monday to Sunday, offering a variety of shift patterns to support service needs.
Under current Home Office Immigration Rules, this role does not meet the UK Visas and Immigration criteria and the position is not therefore eligible for skilled worker sponsorship. Applications from candidates that require skilled worker sponsorship will NOT be shortlisted.
Main duties and responsibilities
- Provide a catering service to patients and staff.
- Receive and share information about patient meal choices, dietary requirements, and service adaptations, ensuring messages are clear, understood, and delivered in a timely manner.
- Collect and record menu choices from inpatients and staff delivery services, ensuring specific requirements are noted and dietary alerts are highlighted.
- Clean crockery, cutlery, utensils, containers, and small equipment both manually and using dishwashing machines.
- Clean floors, work surfaces, furnishings, and related equipment manually and with machinery.
- Prepare and present ready‑to‑eat food within the scope of the Catering Department.
- Assist cooks with basic food preparation and cooking.
- Follow internal procedures and use your judgement to maintain safe systems of work, including prioritising high‑risk food preparation, allergen awareness, and cleaning protocols.
- Prepare and deliver ward stores and supplies to wards and departments.
- Clean and prepare ward food trolleys for meal service.
- Comply with food hygiene regulations relating to food service equipment and departmental cleanliness.
- Follow Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points and the Trust’s Food Safety Management System, ensuring all relevant paperwork is completed.
- Maintain high standards of personal hygiene.
- Comply with Health and Safety regulations.
- Report faulty equipment, repair needs, maintenance issues, and requests for personal protective equipment or light equipment to a supervisor or other relevant staff member.
- Help maintain building security by ensuring doors are locked and windows are secured when left open or unsecured.
- Work as part of the team, including supporting the training of new staff in work patterns and specific tasks.
- Guide relief staff on procedures when covering duties.
- Operate the cash register at the point of service.
- Store goods correctly and rotate stock appropriately.
- Take part in Performance and Development Reviews within the department.
- The role involves standing for long periods, lifting stock and supplies, and moving waste bins, meal trolleys, and hot lockers, with weights over 15kg frequently handled during a shift.
- Following training, you will be required to operate a range of specialised catering equipment, which may include knives, mandolins, meat slicers, and industrial steamers.
- You will be expected to work in a noisy, hot, and humid environment.
Qualifications / Training
- NVQ Level 2 in relevant subject or willingness to complete
- Level 2 Food Hygiene Certificate or a willingness to complete within 3 months of commencing in the post.
Experience
- Previous experience in catering or hospitality services
- Experience of cash handling systems
- Working in a healthcare environment
- Customer focused environment
Knowledge
- Knowledge of operations in a catering setting
- Knowledge of operations in a mass catering setting
- Knowledge of operations in a healthcare support service setting
Personal Qualities
- Demonstrates commitment to the Trust’s published values
- Exhibit a polite & courteous manner and personal customer service standards
Benefits
- Enhanced pay for weekend working and statutory holidays
- Contributory pension scheme
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.
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