Description
Spire Cambridge Lea Hospital is seeking a friendly, enthusiastic, and reliable Host and Catering Assistant to join our Bank team. This is an excellent opportunity for someone with catering or hospitality experience who enjoys providing outstanding customer service and wants to work within a professional private healthcare environment.
As part of our flexible Bank workforce, you'll have the opportunity to work shifts that fit around your availability while supporting our patients, visitors, and colleagues.
Duties and Responsibilities
In this varied and rewarding role, you will:
- Deliver a high standard of hospitality and customer service to patients on the wards.
- Support patients with menu selections and ensure meals and refreshments are served efficiently and courteously.
- Assist with the preparation and presentation of food under the guidance of the Catering team.
- Help maintain cleanliness and tidiness across ward and restaurant areas.
- Support stock rotation and replenishment to ensure food safety standards are maintained.
- Ensure patient confidentiality is upheld at all times.
- Follow all Health & Safety, Food Hygiene, and infection prevention procedures.
- Work independently and collaboratively to provide an excellent catering service throughout the hospital.
Requirements
To be successful in this role, you will have:
- Previous experience within a catering, hospitality, restaurant, café, or similar environment.
- A basic Food Hygiene qualification or a good understanding of food safety practices.
- Experience working independently and using your own initiative.
- Excellent communication and customer service skills.
- A positive, flexible, and proactive approach to work.
- Experience in waiter/waitress, host, hospitality assistant, or catering assistant positions is highly desirable.
Bank Contract - Flexible Shifts
- Shifts available between 6:00am and 9:00pm, Monday to Sunday.
- Flexible working to support business needs.
Benefits
- Bank colleagues are paid weekly.
- Unsocial Enhancements, dependent upon shift pattern worked.
- Competitive rates for bank colleagues who work on a flexible basis.
- Free onsite car park, saving an average of £50 per month.
- Access to Spire Healthcare pension.
- Free uniform.
- Free DBS.
- Full induction, including mandatory training updates.