Kitchen Stores Assistant

Job summary

Kitchen Stores Assistant - Band 2 Permanent role - 37.5 hours per week

Kitchen Stores Assistant often is the backbone of a professional kitchen, responsible for maintaining cleanliness, organising stock, and assisting to ensure smooth operations, within the kitchen, and assisting hospitality.

Assisting the Kitchen Stores Supervisor with ordering, receiving,checking, receipting, storing, decanting and issuing all food and non-food items, ensuring that whilst in storage all food commodities are maintained in accordance with departmental policy/procedure and current food hygiene legislation.Receipting of Provisions, Issue of Provisions, Storage, Stock Control.

Important Notice on Visa Sponsorship Eligibility

Please note that whilst the trust does offer sponsorship this role isunfortunately not eligible for visa sponsorshipunder the UK Health and Care Worker visa route. This is due to the position not meeting theminimum salary threshold of £25,000 per annumand/or the requiredskill levelset by UK Visas and Immigration.

We appreciate your interest in this opportunity and encourage applications from candidates who already have theright to work in the UK.

Main duties of the job

• Stock Management & Organization:Unloading food deliveries and organizing stockrooms, walk-in fridges, and freezers to ensure items are stored correctly and securely.
• Inventory Control & Rotation:Checking sell-by/use-by dates, implementing First-In-First-Out (FIFO) practices, and identifying low stock items to notify chefs or managers.
• Supplier Delivery Handling:Receiving, checking, and signing for goods from suppliers against purchase orders to ensure accuracy in quantity and quality.
• Storage Area Hygiene:Cleaning and tidying storerooms, shelves, and containers to meet food safety and health regulations.
• Stock Distribution:Bringing ingredients from the storeroom to the main kitchen or specific workstations as needed by the chefs.
• Waste Management:Disposing of packaging materials (cardboard, plastic) and ensuring food waste is managed in accordance with recycling protocols.

About us

Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust serves a community of 250,000 people across Tameside & Glossop. We provide a range of services both within the hospital and across our community for both adults and children.Our vision is to improve health outcomes for our population and influence wider determinants of health through collaboration with our health & care partners.

We have a clear set of values & behaviours which we expect all of our staff to demonstrate:

• Compassion
• Accountability
• Respect
• Excellence

We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We are therefore seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce to make it truly representative of our local population.

We actively encourage applications irrespective of race, age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage & civil partnership, or pregnancy or maternity. Recognising those communities that are underrepresented within our workforce, we would particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian & minority ethnic candidates, LGBTQ+& Disabled people.

Benefits include; flexible working, 27-33 days annual leave plus bank holidays, sick pay, NHS Pension Scheme, free eye tests and health checks, gym discount, free bicycle loan scheme, salary sacrifice car scheme, support with stress, bereavement, relationships, finance, and much more.

Employer details

Employer name

Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Tameside & Glossop Integrated Hospital

Fountain Street

Ashton-Under-Lyne

OL69RW

Employer's website

https://www.tamesidehospital.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Tameside & Glossop Integrated Hospital

Fountain Street

Ashton-Under-Lyne

OL69RW

Employer's website

https://www.tamesidehospital.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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