Catering Assistant (Longmoor House)
The closing date is 29 January 2026
The following Catering Assistant vacancies have become available at Liverpool University Hospital. Although the jobs are primarily based in the unit advertised, you may be required to work anywhere within the catering department depending on the needs of the service. This could include the Royal site & Broadgreen.
IT skills are required for all positions as the Trust does mandatory training and yearly appraisals online.
We are looking for staff who are self motivated and can work in a team or on their own unsupervised. We require staff who are flexible and open to change to join our catering team. These positions will be based in a busy hospital, you may be moved as the needs of the service requires, also you may be required to work Bank holidays including Christmas Day.
Main duties of the job
Longmoor House (formerly called Stoddart House) is a self contained unit with 69 patients and the operating system we will be using to feed them will be cook/freeze. On each floor there is a regeneration kitchen and a dining room. Patients may be fed from the dining room or to their rooms.
The catering service will include:
* Serving 5 beverages and snacks per day, washing the crockery from each meal service and beverage run.
* Collecting, washing and refreshing water jugs twice a day, taking meal orders from patients twice a day.
* Regenerating the cook/freeze meals, preparing snacks, salad & sandwiches, serving the meals.
About us
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital & Royal Liverpool University Hospital.
We are part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, formed on 1 Nov 2024 from the coming together of LUHFT and Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust. The Group was born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide our patients.
UHLG is one of the largest employers in the region, with over 16,800 colleagues dedicated to caring for our communities - from birth and beyond.
For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, we are their local NHS. We provide general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services for more than two million people in the North West.
Aintree University Hospitalis the single receiving site for adult major trauma patients in Cheshire and Merseyside and hosts a number of regional services including an award-winning stroke facility.Broadgreen Hospitalis home to elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation.Liverpool Women's Hospitalspecialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK's largest single site maternity hospital each year. TheRoyal Liverpool University Hospitalis the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single bedrooms and focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.
Job responsibilities
Involved in the preparation and service of meals to patients, Staff & Visitors. Required to undertake a wide range of cleaning and monitoring duties associated with maintaining food hygiene within the main kitchens, ward kitchens, dining room and coffee shops. Ensuring that at all time a high quality service provision is offered, maintainingtrust values.
All training, and appraisals are done electronically so basic IT skill are essential.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Level 2 Food Hygiene Certificate or equivalent
Experience
* Previous catering experience
* Previous use of cleaning machinery, Dishwashing or pan washing machinery
Skills
* Data inputting
Knowledge
* Numeracy and literacy skills.
* Knowledge of Health & Safety.
* Understanding of the importance of good food hygiene.
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.
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
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