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Come and join our team at Parexel’s Early Phase Clinical Unit in Harrow as a Clinical Catering Assistant. This is a BANK role will be offering flexible shifts, including weekends.
The main purpose of this role is to distribute food and beverages to clinical trial participants, and to maintain the catering area.
Job Responsibilities:
Providing meals to participants
1. Coordination and ordering food from caterer for volunteers in cooperation with the study team
2. Distribute food and beverages to trial participants according to study protocol and internal requirements
3. Supervise volunteers during mealtimes, assisting them with catering requirements, as required
4. Ensuring menus have macro-nutrients checked by the Dietician
Following study protocol
5. Ensure that the meals are correct (ingredients and macro-nutrients) and distributed as per protocol time
6. Document meal and beverage start and stop times when required by a study
7. Document beverages distribution times and provided volumes as per source data agreement
8. Weigh food before and after when demanded by the study protocol
9. Estimate percentage consumption when required by protocol
Maintaining catering area
10. Store food and beverages according to individual storage requirements
11. Perform quality controls on expiry dates of stored food and drinks
12. Clean and maintain kitchen and equipment
13. Maintain stock.
14. Oversee staff kitchen areas and maintain stock levels as required
Unit support
15. Hospitality set-up and oversee food orders
16. Other tasks in the opinion of the manager and need of the EPCU
Skills & Experience:
17. Experience in restaurant or canteen work or equivalent
18. Basic English knowledge
19. Computer skills (Windows Office)
20. Ability to work under pressure and multitask in times with a higher workload
21. Ability to work in shifts (early, late)
22. Ability to work on weekends and holidays
23. Good communication skills
24. To handle and operate the dishwasher, the heated catering trolley ovens, the kitchen ovens and other machinery as and when required with health and safety in mind
Education:
25. A secondary school qualification.