Job Description

Spire Thames Valley Hospital | Slough | Host & Catering Assistant

Spire Thames Valley Hospital is looking for an experienced and motivated Host & Catering Assistant to join our hardworking Catering team.

This is an important role within our hospital, helping to create a positive experience for patients, visitors and colleagues every day. From providing high-quality meal services to maintaining a welcoming environment, you’ll play a key part in supporting patient care and ensuring the smooth running of hospital operations. This bank opportunity will primarily support weekend services, with additional shifts available to help cover annual leave and other planned absences throughout the year.

If you take pride in delivering excellent customer service, enjoy working as part of a team and are passionate about making a difference, we’d love to hear from you.

About the Role

As a Host & Catering Assistant, you will support the delivery of high-quality catering services across the hospital, helping to ensure patients receive nutritious meals and a positive dining experience during their stay. You'll work closely with colleagues across the Catering and Facilities teams, maintaining high standards of cleanliness, food safety and customer service.

At Spire, you’ll work in a modern, patient-focused environment where quality and care come first.

Whether you are serving meals, preparing dining areas or supporting patients with their catering needs, your contribution will be valued as part of the wider hospital team.

Why Join Us

At Spire Thames Valley Hospital, you'll become part of a friendly, close-knit team where people genuinely look out for one another. We believe in creating a positive working environment where everyone feels respected, valued and able to contribute. You'll have the opportunity to work alongside dedicated colleagues who take pride in delivering excellent service and creating a positive experience for patients and visitors.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Deliver meal and beverage services to patients in a courteous and professional manner
• Take patient meal orders and support individual dietary requirements where appropriate
• Ensure patient dining areas are clean, tidy and welcoming
• Assist with food preparation and presentation in line with hospital standards
• Maintain excellent food hygiene and infection prevention standards at all times
• Support stock control, replenishment and storage procedures
• Assist with clearing tables, collecting trays and maintaining cleanliness throughout service periods
• Work collaboratively with Catering, Facilities and Clinical teams to support patient needs
• Follow all health and safety procedures, policies and regulatory requirements
• Provide excellent customer service to patients, visitors and colleagues

Who we're looking for:

• Previous experience in catering, hospitality, customer service or healthcare environments is desirable
• A passion for delivering excellent service and supporting positive patient experiences
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Friendly, approachable and compassionate manner
• Ability to work effectively within a team and independently when required
• Reliable, flexible and professional approach to work
• Good organisational skills and attention to detail
• Understanding of food hygiene principles and safe working practices
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment whilst maintaining high standards
• Commitment to providing an excellent experience for patients, visitors and colleagues

Contract: Bank

Days/Hours: Primarily weekend shifts, with occasional weekday shifts available to provide annual leave and absence cover as required.

Benefits

We offer competitive rates to our bank colleagues, alongside a range of benefits designed to support your wellbeing, development and flexibility, including:

• Weekly pay
• Flexible working to help you balance work and personal commitments
• Competitive rates, with enhancements where applicable
• Pension scheme access
• Blue Light Card discounts
• Spire for You rewards, discounts and wellbeing support
• Free uniform and DBS check
• Comprehensive induction and training
• Development opportunities across Spire Healthcare

We commit to our employees’ well-being through work life balance, on-going development, support and reward.

Whether you're looking to build your experience in private healthcare, explore long-term hospital career opportunities or enjoy the flexibility of bank work, this role offers an excellent opportunity to develop your skills within a respected private hospital. You'll gain valuable experience working in a patient-focused environment whilst supporting an essential service that contributes to the smooth running of the hospital.

Inclusion Statement

We are committed to creating an inclusive environment and welcome applications from all backgrounds.

For further information about this role please contact Alison Roberts on alison.roberts@spirehealthcare.com

We’re reviewing applications as they come in, so early applications are encouraged.

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.

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.

We have achieved our market leading position because of our Purpose, which is to 'make a positive difference to people's lives through outstanding personalised care' Everyone at Spire is aligned to this purpose, which underpins a culture of respect, inclusion, passion and collaboration across our business, enabling us to achieve more than 98% of our hospitals being rated ‘Good’ or ‘Outstanding’ by the Regulators; these are sector leading standards.