Job Description

When our values align, there's no limit to what we can achieve.

At Parexel, we all share the same goal - to improve the world's health. From clinical trials to regulatory, consulting, and market access, every clinical development solution we provide is underpinned by something special - a deep conviction in what we do.

Each of us, no matter what we do at Parexel, contributes to the development of a therapy that ultimately will benefit a patient. We take our work personally, we do it with empathy and we're committed to making a difference.

Come and join our team at Parexel’s Early Phase Clinical Unit in Harrow as a Clinical Catering Assistant. This is a BANK role.

Our Early Phase Unit is located in Northwick Park Hospital and is staffed around the clock by our highly trained and certified team. It features state of the art monitoring technologies and offers our clinical trial participants a safe and comfortable environment for medical care. Our first-in-human study premises offer recreational facilities for the participants, a screening department, wards, a laboratory and a pharmacy.

The main purpose of this role is to distribute food and beverages to clinical trial participants, and to maintain the catering area.

Job Responsibilities:

Providing meals to participants

• Coordination and ordering food from caterer for volunteers in cooperation with the study team

• Distribute food and beverages to trial participants according to study protocol and internal requirements

• Supervise volunteers during mealtimes, assisting them with catering requirements, as required

• Ensuring menus have macro-nutrients checked by the Dietician

Following study protocol

• Ensure that the meals are correct (ingredients and macro-nutrients) and distributed as per protocol time

• Document meal and beverage start and stop times when required by a study

• Document beverages distribution times and provided volumes as per source data agreement

• Weigh food before and after when demanded by the study protocol

• Estimate percentage consumption when required by protocol

Maintaining catering area

• Store food and beverages according to individual storage requirements

• Perform quality controls on expiry dates of stored food and drinks

• Clean and maintain kitchen and equipment

• Maintain stock.

• Oversee staff kitchen areas and maintain stock levels as required

Unit support

• Hospitality set-up and oversee food orders

• Other tasks in the opinion of the manager and need of the EPCU

Skills & Experience:

• Experience in restaurant or canteen work or equivalent

• Basic English knowledge

• Computer skills (Windows Office)

• Ability to work under pressure and multitask in times with a higher workload

• Ability to work in shifts (early, late)

• Ability to work on weekends and holidays

• Good communication skills

• To handle and operate the dishwasher, the heated catering trolley ovens, the kitchen ovens and other machinery as and when required with health and safety in mind

Education:

• A secondary school qualification.