Bank Catering Assistant

We are looking for an enthusiastic and dedicated individual to join our hospice catering team as a Bank Catering Assistant
, delivering high-quality service and nutritious meals to patients, visitors, and staff.

At Ashgate Hospice, food is more than just a meal - it’s a source of comfort, nourishment, and wellbeing for those in our care. Our catering team plays a vital role in creating fresh, wholesome, and appetising dishes tailored to individual dietary needs.

We have recently been awarded an 'Outstanding' rating by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). If you take pride in your cooking, value teamwork, and want to work in an outstanding environment where compassion, respect, and excellence are at the heart of everything we do, we’d love to hear from you!

• Assisting with the preparation and service of meals and refreshments
• Helping ensure individual dietary needs and preferences are met

• Providing a welcoming and professional service to patients, visitors, staff, and volunteers
• Supporting the smooth running of our hospice café and catering services
• Working closely with colleagues and volunteers as part of a supportive team

• Maintaining excellent food hygiene and cleanliness standards across the kitchen, café, and dining areas, helping create a welcoming environment for everyone who visits the hospice

• Assisting with stock rotation, deliveries, and kitchen organisation

As a Catering Assistant at Ashgate Hospice, you’ll play an important role in creating a positive experience for our patients, visitors, staff, and volunteers through high-quality food and excellent service. We’re looking for someone who enjoys working with people, takes pride in maintaining high standards, and can work flexibly as part of a busy catering team.

• Excellent communication and customer service skills
• Ability to work effectively as part of a team and build positive working relationships across departments
• Ability to support and guide volunteers during shifts
• A warm, friendly, and professional approach when supporting patients, visitors, and colleagues
• A positive, approachable attitude and willingness to help wherever needed
• Good understanding of food hygiene and cleanliness standards
• Willingness to undertake further training and attend team meetings when required
  
  Flexibility to support other areas of the catering service when needed

Ashgate Hospice offers free, specialist, compassionate care for adults living with life-limiting or incurable illnesses, including cancer, neurological diseases, and advanced heart, kidney and lung conditions. Based in North Derbyshire, we support people and those important to them through a range of free and fee-paying services.

Each year, we support over 2,640 people, helping them to manage symptoms, stay informed about their care, and maintain the best possible quality of life from diagnosis onwards.

We also provide vital support to those important to them, including practical and emotional support, as well as bereavement care when someone has died.

We are more than a care provider. We’re a campaigner for sustainable end of life care funding in the UK, and we continually invest in our services and workforce.

• We are compassionate.
• We are a team.
• We are respectful, open, and inclusive.

We value diversity and inclusion and encourage applicants from all backgrounds.

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