Catering Assistant Volunteer

We are looking for volunteers to support the Head Chef delivering consistently high-quality food and handling purchase orders. To volunteer with the kitchen team to provide catering services to Patients, Visitors and staff according to their needs, ensuring that food hygiene standards are maintained.

Key Tasks

• Simple daily food preparation and duties assigned by the Head Chef/Chef on duty to meet the standard and the quality set by the Hospice.
• Follow health codes and cleanliness standards in the food storage areas and kitchen.
• Set up rooms for Functions/Clear these Functions
• Support with meal delivery

Qualifications

• Previous experience of catering
• Basic cooking skills
• To have or have held a food hygiene certificate
• Good interpersonal skills
• The ability to work unsupervised

Benefits

• Full training and ongoing support.
• The opportunity to be part of a caring and dedicated team making a difference in people's lives.

Our Values

• We put the people who use our services at the heart of everything we do
• We are caring and compassionate
• We are personal and supportive in our approach
• We are responsive
• We are driven to do better
• We are fair
• We are professional
• We work collaboratively
• We are accountable

Living Out Our Values

• Our behaviour framework puts our values in the context of our everyday work. See what this includes at saintmichaelshospice.org/behaviour-framework

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

• We positively encourage applications from all areas of the community, regardless of gender, race, faith, disability, age, or sexual orientation and from users of mental health services.
• We believe that children, young people and adults should never experience abuse of any kind. Our safer recruitment and safeguarding processes help protect those accessing our services. Please see our safeguarding statement on saintmichaelshospice.org/safeguarding-statement/.

For more information on the role, please contact us at or on and we can arrange for you to have an informal discussion with a member of the team.