Catering Assistant (Wessex Driver)

Catering Assistant - Wessex Driver

Location: Doncaster Royal Infirmary
Salary: £12.71 per hour
Hours: 21.52 hour per week

About the role

As a Catering Assistant with Sodexo at Doncaster Royal Infiramry, you’ll play an important part in delivering a reliable and welcoming meal service for patients.

Working as part of the catering team, you’ll help prepare and serve meals, deliver food to hospital wards and take patients’ menu orders. You’ll also ensure that equipment, crockery and service areas are kept clean, safe and hygienic.

This is a hands-on role where attention to detail matters. From accommodating dietary requirements to recording food temperatures, your work will help ensure every meal is prepared and served safely and to the required standard.

What you’ll do

  • Prepare food to the required standards, taking account of patients’ dietary requirements.
  • Deliver meals to hospital wards.
  • Take patients’ menu orders accurately and professionally.
  • Collect and wash crockery, cutlery and service utensils.
  • Clean catering equipment using the appropriate materials and methods.
  • Use industrial catering equipment safely.
  • Decant, label and store food items correctly.
  • Record food temperatures and any corrective actions in line with company procedures.
  • Rotate stock to maintain quality and minimise waste.
  • Support retail catering colleagues when required.
  • Complete mandatory training relevant to your role.
  • Assist with other reasonable duties in response to the needs of the service.

What you bring

Essential

  • Basic knowledge of food hygiene and safe food-handling practices.
  • An understanding of effective cleaning methods and standards.
  • Excellent customer service and communication skills.
  • The confidence to interact professionally and respectfully with patients.
  • A positive, reliable and helpful approach.
  • The ability to work well as part of a busy catering team.

Desirable

  • Previous food-handling or catering experience.
  • Experience working within a hospital, healthcare or similar environment.
  • A Basic Food Hygiene qualification.

What we offer

Working with Sodexo is more than a job. It’s an opportunity to be part of something greater. You’ll belong to a company and team that values you for you, where you can act with purpose, make a difference through your everyday actions and thrive in your own way.

Sodexo’s current Catering Assistant adverts commonly highlight training and development, wellbeing support, pension arrangements, colleague discounts and opportunities to progress within the company.

About Sodexo

At Sodexo, our purpose is to create a better every day for everyone to build a better life for all. We bring people together and deliver services that make a positive difference every day.

We welcome and encourage applications from people with diverse experiences, backgrounds and perspectives. At Sodexo, you can be yourself, belong in a team and thrive in your own way.

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