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ABOUT THIS ROLE

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

The working hours are as follows: Tuesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday 15:00 – 21:00 and Sunday 13:00 – 21:00 but this may change so you need to flexible. Approximate 31.5 hours week.

The main purpose of the Job is to Distribute food beverages to study participants and to maintain the catering area.

Job Responsibilities:

Providing meals to subjects

• Coordination and ordering food from caterer for volunteers in cooperation with the study team
• Distribute food and beverages to study 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.

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