Clinical Catering Assistant (Bank)

Come and join our team at Parexel’s Early Phase Clinical Unit in Harrow as a Clinical Catering Assistant. This is a BANK role offering flexible shifts with up to 37.5 hours per week; rotational shifts include weekends.

Our Early Phase Unit is located in Northwick Park Hospital and is staffed around the clock by our highly trained and certified team. It features state-of-the-art monitoring technologies and offers our clinical trial participants a safe and comfortable environment for medical care. Our first-in-human study premises offer recreational facilities for the participants, a screening department, wards, a laboratory, and a pharmacy.

The main purpose of the job is to distribute food and beverages to clinical trial participants and to maintain the catering area.

Job Responsibilities:

1. Providing meals to participants:

• Coordination and ordering food from the caterer for volunteers in cooperation with the study team
• Distribute food and beverages to trial participants according to study protocol and internal requirements
• Supervise volunteers during mealtimes, assisting them with catering requirements as needed
• Ensure menus have macro-nutrients checked by the Dietician

Following study protocol:

• Ensure that the meals are correct (ingredients and macro-nutrients) and distributed as per protocol time
• Document meal and beverage start and stop times when required by a study
• Document beverages distribution times and provided volumes as per source data agreement
• Weigh food before and after when demanded by the study protocol
• Estimate percentage consumption when required by protocol

Maintaining catering area:

• Store food and beverages according to individual storage requirements
• Perform quality controls on expiry dates of stored food and drinks
• Clean and maintain kitchen and equipment
• Maintain stock
• Oversee staff kitchen areas and maintain stock levels as required

Unit support:

• Hospitality set-up and oversee food orders
• Other tasks as deemed necessary by the manager and the needs of the EPCU

Skills & Experience:

• Experience in restaurant or canteen work or equivalent
• Basic English knowledge
• Computer skills (Windows Office)
• Ability to work under pressure and multitask during peak workloads
• Ability to work in shifts (early, late)
• Ability to work on weekends and holidays
• Good communication skills
• Ability to handle and operate kitchen equipment with health and safety in mind

Education:

• A secondary school qualification.

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