Host and Catering Assistant

Host / Catering Assistant | Spire Shawfair Park Hospital Edinburgh | Permanent | Full-Time

Spire Shawfair Park Hospital is looking for a friendly and reliable Host/Catering Assistant to join our Catering Team.

This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in providing high-quality food and beverage services to patients, visitors and colleagues within a leading private healthcare environment.

Key Responsibilities

- Deliver meals and refreshments to patients in a professional and compassionate manner.

- Assist with food preparation and presentation in line with food safety standards.

- Maintain cleanliness and hygiene throughout catering areas.

- Support the smooth running of the hospital restaurant and patient dining services.

- Ensure excellent customer service is provided to patients, visitors and colleagues.

- Follow all health and safety, food hygiene and infection prevention procedures.

Who We're Looking For

- Previous catering, hospitality, customer service or healthcare experience is desirable but not essential.

- A positive, friendly and caring approach.

- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

- Ability to work effectively both independently and as part of a team.

- Flexible and reliable with a strong work ethic.

- Basic food hygiene knowledge would be advantageous.

Benefits:

We offer employees a competitive salary as well as a comprehensive benefits package which includes but is not limited to:

- 35 days annual leave inclusive of bank holidays

- Employer and employee contributory pension with flexible retirement options

- ‘Spire for you’ reward platform - discount and cashback for over 1000 retailers

- Private medical insurance

- Life assurance

- Save an average of £50 per month with our free onsite car park

Our Values

We are extremely proud of our heritage in private healthcare and of our values as an organisation:

- Driving clinical excellence

- Doing the right thing

- Caring is our passion

- Keeping it simple

- Delivering on our promises

- Succeeding and celebrating together

Our people are our difference; it's their dedication, warmth and pursuit of excellence that sets Spire Healthcare apart.

We commit to our employee’s 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.

For us, it's more than just treating patients; it's about looking after people.

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.