Better places, thriving communities.
Pay: £21,
Contract: Permanent
Type: Full Time
Hours: 32.5 hours per week
Location: Cumberland Infirmary, Newtown Road, Carlisle, Cumbria, England, CA2 7HY
Patient Catering Assistant
We are seeking a dedicated and proactive Patient Catering Assistant to join our catering team. In this role, you will support the delivery of high‑quality meal services to patients across the hospital. Your responsibilities will include preparing patient meals, assisting the wider Catering team with food preparation, loading meals onto trolleys, and ensuring timely delivery to the appropriate wards.
You will work to strict Food Safety standards, maintain ward kitchen areas to an excellent standard, and carry out cleaning duties as required. The role involves working to tight deadlines, so being an effective collaborator with strong organisational skills is essential.
You should have a good level of spoken and written English, be confident working with numbers, and demonstrate strong attention to detail. Excellent time‑management skills and the ability to work efficiently in a fast‑paced environment are key.
The ideal candidate will hold a Level 2 Food Safety qualification, understand COSHH guidelines, and be comfortable working in a high‑volume catering environment where temperatures and workloads can vary throughout the day.
Our market-leading offering provides you with benefits that suit your lifestyle.
We have a virtual GP on hand for you and members of your household. So you can get expert advice by video or phone without having to leave your home. We offer financial wellbeing assistance through our Salary Finance scheme. For example, you could access 50% of your earned pay before payday for a small fee. Salary Finance also offers competitive loans.
When you join us, we’ll give you a link to our flexible lifestyle benefits platform, Choices. You might choose to purchase up to five extra days’ holiday each year. You might buy critical illness insurance, seek dental treatment or buy technology products at an affordable cost. There are many choices!
We give you access to high street discounts from thousands of well-known retailers, gyms and more through our MiDeals platform. And we have a cycle-to-work scheme. Life cover of up to four times your salary is available. We also offer enhanced pension contributions, a save-as-you-earn scheme, and a Mitie Matching Share Plan (you could even be awarded free shares in Mitie).
We award our employees with Mitie Stars as recognition for their hard work. There are cash prizes up for grabs each month and at the end of the year there’s a chance to scoop a top prize of £10,!
Our success is a direct result of the experience and quality of our people. Progressing your career is therefore a top priority for us. We offer a diverse variety of training and development avenues via a wide selection of learning resources to suit you.
We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or long-term condition (for example dyslexia, anxiety, autism, a mobility condition or hearing loss) and need us to make any reasonable adjustments, changes or do anything differently during the recruitment process, please let us know by emailing at .