Production Kitchen Stores and Kitchen porter

Central Production Kitchen Stores and Kitchen porter

Northampton General Hospital has an excellent opportunity for a Stores and Kitchen Porter to join our catering team. This role is essential to the smooth delivery of patient food services and supports the work of our chefs in the Central Production Kitchen.

As Kitchen and Stores Porter, you will:

• Be responsible for the transportation of food between patient catering kitchens and wards.
• Carry out date lab eğitim and stock rotation to ensure food safety and compliance.
• Assist with a variety of tasks within the kitchen environment to support daily operations.

The receipt, storage, and distribution of goods, maintaining accurate records

Receive and check deliveries, ensuring quality, quantity, and accuracy against invoices.

We are looking for someone who is:

• Responsible, punctual, and flexible, with a strong work ethic.
• Able to demonstrate excellent communication skills and work effectively as part of a team.
• Committed to maintaining high standards of hygiene and supporting patient care through safe food handling.

This is a vital role within our catering service, delivering patient essentials to ward and playing a pivotal role in meal delivery.

The post holder's main duties will include, but are not limited to:

• Food Safety & Compliance
• Demonstrate awareness of Food Safety and work to the highest standards in both quality and hygiene.
• Follow Food Safety and Health and Safety compliance, ensuring all Codes of Practice for Health, Hygiene, Safety, COSHH, and HACCP are adhered to.
• Maintain thorough knowledge of food safety procedures, cleaning techniques, and standards within the kitchens.
• Maintain thorough knowledge of food safety procedures, cleaning techniques, and standards within the kitchens.
• Cleaning & Hygiene
• Carry out cleaning duties to maintain hygiene levels across food production areas, ancillary rooms, fridges, and catering equipment.
• Clean floors, surfaces, and machinery in line with departmental cleaning schedules.
• Ensure all areas remain in a clean and hygienic state throughout production and service

Please review job description for further information

Please submit your application as soon as possible as we reserve the right to close adverts once we have received sufficient applications

Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust is on an exciting journey with all of our divisions committed to doing things better, with more efficiency as we update, modernise, and advance. We have also entered a Group Model with neighbouring Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and become University Hospitals of Northamptonshire (UHN). As part of this collaborative approach, there may be a requirement for you to work across both the Kettering and Northampton hospital sites, depending on the needs of the service.

Our Excellence Values

• Compassion
• Accountability
• Respect
• Integrity
• Courage

We want to recruit the best people to deliver our services across UHN and help to unleash everyone's full potential.

UHN encourages applications from people who identify from all protected groups. We understand that we need to work with colleagues from diverse backgrounds and make sure the environment they work in is inclusive and collaborative.

We recognise the valuable contribution that the Armed Forces community make to our organisation. We have signed the Armed Forces Covenant and achieved Silver Award under the Armed Forces Employer Recognition Scheme.

We have active Networks that promote and support colleagues from all backgrounds. This ensures everyone feels supported and has a sense of belonging working for UHN.

The post holders main duties will include, but are not limited to:

Food Safety & Compliance

Demonstrate awareness of Food Safety and work to the highest standards in both quality and hygiene.

Follow Food Safety and Health and Safety compliance, ensuring all Codes of Practice for Health, Hygiene, Safety, COSHH, and HACCP are adhered to.

Maintain thorough knowledge of food safety procedures, cleaning techniques, and standards within the kitchens.

Maintain thorough knowledge of food safety procedures, cleaning techniques, and standards within the kitchens.

Cleaning & Hygiene

Carry out cleaning duties to maintain hygiene levels across food production areas, ancillary rooms, fridges, and catering equipment.

Clean floors, surfaces, and machinery in line with departmental cleaning schedules.

Ensure all areas remain in a clean and hygienic state throughout production and service.

Training & Procedures

Undertake onthejob training and ensure all mandatory and job specific training is completed and kept up to date.

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