NHSCloses in 46 days

Food & Beverage Assistant

Barchester Healthcare

Edinburgh, EH4 3PE

Salary

£13.01

Contract

Permanent

Hours

Not specified

Closing date

16 October 2026

46 days left

Job description

ABOUT THE ROLE As a Food & Beverage Assistant at Barchester Healthcare, you'll play an important role in creating a warm, welcoming and enjoyable dini...

As a Food & Beverage Assistant at Barchester Healthcare, you will create a warm, welcoming, and enjoyable dining experience for residents, families, and visitors. Your responsibilities include serving meals and refreshments, ensuring dining areas are clean and comfortable, and supporting the hospitality and kitchen teams. You will help deliver food and beverage services, prepare dining areas, serve residents, and assist with kitchen duties. A friendly approach and attention to detail are essential. Requirements include experience in hospitality, catering, or customer service, understanding food hygiene and safety practices, excellent customer service skills, and the ability to work efficiently in a busy environment.

ABOUT THE ROLE As a Food & Beverage Assistant at Barchester Healthcare, you'll play an important role in creating a warm, welcoming and enjoyable dining experience for our residents, families and visitors. From serving meals and refreshments to ensuring dining areas are clean, comfortable and inviting, you'll help make every mealtime a positive experience.

Working closely with our hospitality and kitchen teams, you'll support the day-to-day delivery of food and beverage services throughout the home. Whether you're preparing dining areas, serving residents or assisting with kitchen duties, your friendly approach and attention to detail will help us deliver the high standards we're known for.

ABOUT YOU To join us as a Food & Beverage Assistant, you'll need:

Experience in a hospitality, catering or customer service environment A friendly, caring and professional approach Good communication and teamwork skills An understanding of food hygiene and health and safety practices A passion for delivering excellent customer service The ability to work efficiently in a busy environment

You'll enjoy working with people and take pride in providing an outstanding experience for residents and visitors alike.

REWARDS PACKAGE In return for your dedication, you'll receive a competitive rate of pay plus our sector-leading benefits and rewards package, including:

Free training and development opportunities Access to wellbeing and employee assistance programmes Retail and lifestyle discounts Refer a Friend bonus scheme Opportunities for career progression across Barchester Healthcare

If you're passionate about hospitality and want to make a positive difference to residents' daily lives, we'd love to hear from you.

Barchester Healthcare is a prominent provider of healthcare services, focusing on a warm and welcoming environment for residents and visitors. Their team works diligently to deliver high-quality standards in care, hospitality, and support. The organization values its employees, offering a competitive pay rate and a robust benefits package that includes free training and development opportunities, access to wellbeing and employee assistance programs, retail and lifestyle discounts, a refer-a-friend bonus scheme, and career progression opportunities. Barchester Healthcare is dedicated to making a positive difference in the lives of its residents.

Qualifications

Essential

  • Experience in hospitality, catering, or customer service environments, a friendly, caring, and professional approach, good communication and teamwork skills, an understanding of food hygiene and health and safety practices, and a passion for excellent customer service.

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

18 August 2026

Last checked

20 August 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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Barchester Healthcare

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