Catering Assistant - Patient Catering Service in Leeds

An exciting new opportunity has arisen within the Catering Service Delivery team for a new band 2 Catering Assistant to work at St James University Hospital and Leeds General Infirmary. In this role you will help deliver service excellence to Leeds Teaching Hospitals patients.

Main duties:

• Assist with daily catering operations, ensuring compliance with statutory legislation, hygiene standards and quality control procedures.
• Coordinate with colleagues, manage food safety, handle patient feeding requests and maintain accurate documentation.

About us:

The Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is committed to delivering the highest quality and safest treatment and care to every patient. Through our vision, multi‑year goals and the Leeds Way values, we aim to provide specialist and integrated care.

Job responsibilities:

• Complete all daily documentation complying with statutory legislation, local codes and quality control procedures.
• Maintain cleaning and hygiene standards in designated areas following scheduled cleaning plans and hygiene codes.
• Report contamination or pest infestation promptly and isolate affected items.
• Work with colleagues to maintain and improve service quality for patients and other service users.
• Ensure patient feeding requests are actioned timely to meet nutritional requirements.
• Carry out tasks in compliance with statutory legislation and local policies including Food Safety, Health and Safety, COSHH, and agreed safe working procedures.
• Report incidents and near misses using the Trust Incident Reporting system.
• Maintain high personal hygiene and appearance at all times on duty.
• Take responsibility for personal development in agreement with line manager, completing mandatory training and refresher training annually.
• Attend and complete induction training for food service skills and food safety before performing full range of tasks.
• Ensure adequate security of food items, equipment and premises per stock control policies, reporting losses or theft promptly.
• Carry out duties according to departmental quality management procedures, completing relevant documentation.
• Determine quality and use‑by dates for self‑made items, make substitutions when required, and report damaged or out‑of‑date stock.
• Wear correct uniform, footwear and PPE at all times.
• Check incoming deliveries against delivery notes and official orders, ensuring quality, quantity and temperature specifications, reporting shortages or damage.
• Issue provisions to ward housekeeping and other departments per authorised requisitions, raising investigations for incorrect orders.
• Dispose of refuse to designated areas following Trust Policy and clean specific loading bays and associated areas.
• Work autonomously with minimal supervision, ensuring food safety, quality and compliance with policies and procedures.
• Use IT systems to access wage slips and submit order forms and stock takes.

Person Specification:

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Disclosure and Barring Service Check: This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975. Accordingly, a Disclosure and Barring Service check will be required to verify any previous criminal convictions.