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Bank Catering Assistant

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust

Ludlow, SY8 1QX

Salary

£25,272

Contract

Bank

Hours

Not specified

Closing date

17 September 2026

12 days left

Job description

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  • Ensuring a good standard of quality control during preparations, cooking and despatch of food. This will include documentation of the process in accordance with a safe food system.
  • To prepare special diets.
  • Serving meals and taking of cash for dining room till whenever necessary.
  • Responsible for practising good hygiene in regard to all aspects of the working of a catering department and including the maintenance of a good standard of personal hygiene
  • Assisting with the washing/drying up at lunch time.
  • Ensuring that all freezers/fridges are cleaned and defrosted regularly.
  • To complete food orders when required
  • Assisting with ward stores order.
  • To be responsible for the induction and training of new catering staff and that all training is documented.
  • Responsible for taking receipt of goods and putting away in the appropriate area's
  • Accepting and checking delivery of goods as necessary.
  • The handling of money and filling in the appropriate form.

Please see the Job Description and Person Specification attached for further information on the role.

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust provides community-based health services for adults and children in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin, and some services in surrounding areas too. These range from district nursing, health visiting and running four community hospitals through to providing very specialist community care through talented and dedicated staff.

Patients, carers and the public play a vital role in helping us to develop and improve our services and we are constantly looking for ways to work with local communities, patients and the public to innovate and improve. Have a look at the Have Your Say section of our website to find out how you can feed back your experiences and help us to continually improve.

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust is an exciting place to work. It offers a wide range of employment opportunities for many people.

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust positively encourages applications from all areas of the community, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation or religious beliefs. We are committed to ensuring people who work for the community trust have a good working life - and a good work life/home life balance.

Training and Qualifications

Essential

  • Food Hygiene (level 2) certificate or the willingness to work towards within 12 months
  • Ability to demonstrate good numeracy and literacy skills.

Experience

Essential

  • Able to demonstrate previous commercial catering experience

Knowldege and Skills

Essential

  • Ability to prioritise work
  • General awareness of safety
  • Good organisational skills

How to apply

Applications are handled entirely by the employer on the original advert. We do not collect CVs, supporting statements or application data.

Provenance

Source

NHS Jobs

First seen

3 September 2026

Last checked

5 September 2026

Salary, closing date and description are taken from the employer's advert. The original advert always takes precedence.

About the employer

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Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust

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