Main area Facilities, Catering
Grade Band 2
Contract Permanent
Hours Part time - 30 hours per week (on rota, including weekends)
Job ref 350-TWS6918920
Employer Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type NHS
Site Rathbone Hospital
Town Liverpool
Salary £23,615 Per Annum Pro Rata
Salary period Yearly
Closing 29/01/2025 23:59
Facilities Management Assistant/ Catering
Band 2
Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust celebrates diversity and promotes equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect.
We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and also particularly encourage applications from ethnic minorities, disabled and LGBTQIA+ people that are under-represented in our workforce. We encourage all applicants to share their equality information with us.
Job overview
The facilities department employs a variety of support staff to help maintain a clean, safe and welcoming environment. As a Facilities Management Assistant, you will provide a range of tasks which will primarily involve catering and food preparation duties. You will be required to prepare and serve meals within our in-patient area. The duties will also include the cleaning of clinical and non-clinical areas.
Base: Rathbone Hospital Mill Lane, Liverpool, L13 4AW
Hours: 30 hours per week, on rota including weekends working Early & Late Shifts.
Shift times: 7.30am - 2.30pm and 11.30am - 6.30pm
The role of the Facilities Management Assistant (FMA) remains an integral part of our service delivery, carrying out a range of facilities tasks and ensuring that catering and cleaning standards are achieved and maintained.
Main duties of the job
Applications are invited from hard-working, self-motivated individuals who are able to work on their own initiative and also as part of a team. You must have a flexible approach to your workload, be able to work to deadlines, demonstrate good attention to detail and have high standards of quality in your work.
You will need to demonstrate an understanding of the need to deal with service users and staff in a helpful and supportive manner. You must have good communication skills, a positive attitude and an understanding of health and safety in relation to safe working practices.
Previous experience of hospital catering and cleaning duties and specifically a catering provision within a mental health environment would be an advantage; however, training will be provided. You will be expected to have or acquire an appropriate Food Hygiene certificate and must have basic computer skills.
Working for our organisation
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
* To work as members of a team, carrying out facilities tasks as allocated and prioritised. Facilities tasks may include all or a combination of the following:
* Cleaning of clinical/ward areas, inclusive of toilets;
* Basic food preparation;
* Fridge and food temperature monitoring;
* Till operation;
* To assist colleagues and their line manager, carry out the tasks assigned to the team or individual and to support the minimisation of overtime and sickness costs to the Trust and also minimise the waste of resources, through operating the required reporting, management or information systems.
* To undertake all mandatory training as required by Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust and ensure that all required training is kept up to date.
* To take part in performance management and Personal Achievement and Contribution Evaluations (PACE).
* To comply with all relevant policies and procedures (including, but not limited to, health & safety, security, manual handling and food safety).
* To take responsibility for the completion of all duties in a safe and efficient manner, and to maintain regular contact with their line manager.
* To stand in for other FMAs as required.
* To liaise with all relevant parties in a friendly and helpful way as is required to ensure the achievement of all duties and responsibilities.
* To work unsupervised and use own initiative in line with service requirements.
* To ensure timely and accurate completion of documentation, and to enter and use data on information systems.
* To undertake cleaning duties in accordance with cleaning schedules and instructions.
* Any other duties that may be reasonably expected and that are commensurate with the grade.
Person specification
Qualifications
* CIEH Foundation Certificate in Food Hygiene or equivalent
Knowledge
* Experience of working in a similar role
* Experience of working in the NHS
Skills
* Able to carry out manual tasks
* Able to function as part of a team
* Good interpersonal and communication skills
* Able to be flexible
* Able to maintain accurate records
Please ensure you check the email account from which you apply for all correspondence. All information regarding your application will come from apps.trac.jobs not NHS Jobs.
Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants who consider themselves to be disabled who meet the minimum (essential) criteria for the role in the person specification.
Should you require a reasonable adjustment to our recruitment process please email [emailprotected] to ensure that measures can be put in place to support you.
The Trust expects all post holders who require an enhanced DBS for their role subscribe to the DBS Update Service. You will be required to enrol for this service for a fee of £16 per year and maintain registration.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
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