Bank Host and Catering Assistant
Employer name not established · Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
Host and Catering Assistant | Bank Work - Flexi Shifts | Cambridge | Free on site Parking |
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.
.Who we're looking for
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 (won’t be applicable for all)
- We offer competitive rates to our bank colleagues who work on a flexible basis, often to cover busy periods, sickness, or annual leave
- Save an average of £50 per month with our free onsite car park
- Access to Spire Healthcare pension
- Free uniform
- Free DBS
- Full induction, including mandatory training updates
Knowledge, support and guidance through your recruitment journey from Spire’s specialist Resourcing Team
We commit to our employees well-being through work life balance, on-going development, support and reward.
Spire Healthcare is a leading independent healthcare group in the United Kingdom, running 38 hospitals and over 50 clinics across England, Wales and Scotland. It provides diagnostics, inpatient, day case and outpatient care, operates a network of private GPs and provides workplace health services to over 800 corporate clients. It also delivers a range of private and NHS mental health, musculoskeletal and dermatological services.
Closing date: In order to streamline our recruitment process, we reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications