Band 2 Catering Operative
The closing date is 28 October 2025
The Catering department has an exciting opportunity to work as part of the team at Good Hope Hospital.
Our ward based Catering Operatives should have a passion for ensuring patients are provided with a friendly, safe and efficient service.
The responsibilities are:
* Food preparation, handling and serving of foods across all areas of the Catering department and associated hospital sites. The post holder will require maintaining good food hygiene standards for patients, staff and visitors to the Trust in accordance with individual sites processes.
Main duties of the job
Main Duties of the role:
* Maintain excellent cleaning standards following cleaning schedules supplied
* Provide high quality service to all customers/patients
* Ensure codes of practice for HACCP and food safety are followed as per training
* Temperatures of cooked foods and deliveries recorded using the designated HACCP sheets
* Replenish stock in accordance with ward requirements
* Check dates and rotation of food accordingly within the working area
* Handling cleaning chemicals in accordance with COSHH
* Be flexible in rotation of work
This role requires knowledge of working in a fast paced catering environment.
About us
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust strives to have an inclusive culture where everyone feels like they belong, can thrive, knows that they add value and feels valued. We do this by developing compassionate and culturally competent leaders, being values driven in all that we do and by creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace that thrives on the diversity of our people. As such we want to attract and recruit talented individuals from all backgrounds, and for each of you to feel supported for the diversity you bring, to achieve your full potential. For those staff with a disability, including physical disability, long term health condition, mental health or neurodiverse condition, this also means being committed to making reasonable adjustments needed for you to carry out your role.
Job responsibilities
Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description
Person Specification
Qualifications
* GCSE Equivalent in English and Maths
* Basic Food Hygiene Certificate or willingness to undertake in the induction period
Experience
* Health and Safety or willingness to undertake in induction period
* Food Hygiene Regulations or willingness to undertake in induction period
* Willingness to undertake specific competencies to meet the full requirements of the role
* Previous Catering Work Experience
* Previous Hospital or Care Experience
* Catering related knowledge
* Allergy Regulations
Additional Criteria
* Literate with basic I.T skills
* Read and understand written documentation
* Verbally communicate with people
* Presentable
* Work in large teams
* Able to work in hot and cold environments
* Time keeping
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Employer name
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
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