About this role
Job summary
Would you like to be part of a vital team ensuring high standards of catering are achieved for our patients, visitors, and staff? Do you want to go home at the end of your shift knowing you helped make your local hospital a great place to be cared for?
We have available: -
1 x 12-month, Secondment/ Fixed Term, Full time, 37.5 hours per week position.
Our facilities Catering Team play an essential role within the trust, responsible for catering at ward level and commercial outlets across both our hospital sites.
We are recruiting a Facilities Assistant - Storekeeper at The Princess Royal Hospital, Telford and looking for an individual who shares our passion and drive to ensure that our patients receive a quality meal service.
Main role will be storekeeper, ensuring orders, accepting deliveries, stock rotation, delivery to wards and retail outlets of store orders are carried out on a daily basis
Main duties of the job
- Responsible for Storekeeper role, orders, deliveries, HACCP documentation
- Responsible for complying with good hygieneand health & safety practices within the departmentin accordance with standing operating procedures and current food safetyand health & safety legislation.
- Use equipment like dishwashers, food trolleys (Burlodge Trolleys) and coffee machines safely and correctly.
- Work with other team members and ward staff to ensure patient meals are served within the protected mealtime schedule on time.
- Talk politely with patients, staff and visitors and help with any questions or problems.
- To comply with appropriate HACCP food safety documentation including taking and recording food temperatures at ward level or in retail outlets for the departments HACCP food safety management system and take corrective actionwhere necessary.
About us
Our Poppy's Promise Commitment
We believe that compassionate care sits at the heart of everything we do. Every member of our team -- clinical or non-clinical -- plays a vital role in ensuring that patients, families, and colleagues are treated with dignity, empathy, and respect at all times.
We expect all staff to demonstrate compassion not only through their words, but through their actions: by listening attentively, communicating clearly and kindly, and recognising individual needs, feelings, and circumstances of those in our care.
Effective communication is central to safe and high-quality healthcare. We value colleagues who take the time to understand others, explain information in a meaningful way, and respond to concerns with patience and understanding.
By joining our team, you are committing to uphold these values -- ensuring that every patient feels heard, respected, and valued, and that compassion is embedded in every interaction, every day.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For full duties and responsibilities please refer to the attached document entitled Candidate Job Pack
Person Specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential
- Level 2 award in food safety or equivalent
- Evidence of a commitment to continuous development
Desirable
- Level 3 in Food Safety
Experience
Essential
- Proven ability to work on own initiative
- Proven ability to manage own workload and prioritise when there are competing priorities
- Evidence of experience of working and contributing in a team
- Evidence of ability to work under pressure
Desirable
- Relevant experience of working in a catering environment, however full training will be given as part of an induction plan lasting at least a few weeks
Skills and Knowledge
Desirable
- Knowledge of food safety systems, HACCP, COSHH and dealing with Allergens
- Proven ability to communicate with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders including; patients, staff-members, visitors, suppliers & environmental health
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 details
Employer name
The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust
Address
The Princess Royal Hospital, Telford
Apley
Telford
TF1 6TF
United Kingdom
Employer's website
http://www.sath.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)