Soft Facilities Catering & Domestic Assistant - Community Clinics - RA

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Are you looking for a role that will provide variety, allow you to meet and work with new people every day?

We are offering flexible working opportunities to a number of part time Soft Facilities (Catering & Domestics) Assistants working across Herefordshire including:

• Ross on Wye Community Hospital
• Bromyard Community Hospital
• Leominster Community Hospital
• Herefordshire Clinics

We provide services over 7 days a week from 0700 – 2100, we offer the below shift patterns (min shift 5.5 hours per day):

• 07.00 - 13:00 hours
• 09:30 - 15:00 hours
• 13:00 - 19:00/21:00 hours

Soft Services Assistant posts are an absolute essential role for our Trust, providing clean environments and a nutritious Catering Service within one of our three Community Hospitals and a clean environment for our clinics across Herefordshire.

These roles are important and valued roles within the Estates Teams.

The roles will be accountable to Site Supervisors based on site and are key front-line workers who are expected to liaise with ward staff, patients, visitors and contractors.

There will be travel expected as part of your role however, we will be paying either mileage or provide a pool car from the base at Franklin Barnes.

If you don’t already hold your Food Hygiene Certificate, we will support you to gain this qualification.

We are looking for individuals who can deliver and achieve a high standard of cleaning in both clinical and non-clinical settings, ensuring that COSHH requirements are adhered to.

In a catering role you will prepare all types of hot and cold foods including special and therapeutic diets. Other duties include associated cleaning and completion of compliance paperwork.

As part of the Soft Services Team, the Assistant posts are dual posts responsible for:
1. Maintaining the levels of cleanliness of all environments, to the standards set within the NHS National Standards of Cleanliness (2021).
2. To maintain a wide range of general catering duties, ensuring a high-quality service, in line with Food Hygiene Regulations at all times.

Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire NHS FT and the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust.

Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the Community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.

We are a progressive and forward-looking trust, with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways, through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care we’d want for our family and friends.

More than 3,500 people work for the Trust – they tell us it’s a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH, with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.

We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.

Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman: “The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential.”

Our values - Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time…all the time.

To view role requirements and role responsibilities in full, please view ‘supporting documents’ linked to this vacancy.