Kitchen Assistant

Kitchen worker, your role!
As a kitchen worker, you ensure the execution of the tasks assigned within the (division) kitchens of Patient Catering. You provide food and drinks for patients in the clinical departments. You are versatile within the kitchen, i.e., maintaining stock levels, monitoring the quality and quantity of meals, keeping departmental kitchens, crockery, and equipment clean, and monitoring the quality and quantity of meals. You have an affinity/creativity for presenting and garnishing meals. Additionally, you have experience with and knowledge of diets and allergens and guide colleagues with instructions. You implement the hygiene code (HACCP) and have daily contact with the front office staff and nursing department in this regard. The working hours are according to the duty roster between 7:00 AM and 8:30 PM. You will also be deployed during weekends and public holidays.

In short: if you are that TOP PERFORMER with the fresh, dynamic, flexible, enthusiastic, innovative, patient-friendly commitment that we are looking for, then we ask you to apply to take on the challenge within our food concept together with us.

A workplace in motion
Our Catering is fully in development. With upcoming renovations, we are creating a fresh, modern environment in which experience, sustainability, and hospitality are central. You enjoy moving along with these changes and see opportunities where others see challenges.

From organization to guest experience: you make the difference.
You will join a committed team where collaboration and fun go hand in hand. We encourage each other to grow, try new things, and together lift Catering to a higher level.
What do we offer?

• A dynamic working environment in transition

• Space for your creativity and ideas

• A team where enthusiasm is central

• Opportunities to develop yourself, including in the field of healthy and plant-based nutrition

Will you complete our facilitating team?

MUMC+
We warmly welcome you to the world of Maastricht UMC+, a world where top care comes together with warmth and attention, for our patients and for each other. It is a world that can sometimes be the beginning of a beautiful career!

Facilities department
The Service Department Facilities aims to 'relieve' the primary process (patient care, research, and education) by providing housing facilities, products, and services. Our mission is 'Our service = your success!'.
We provide our services from four process groups, namely Reception & Business Safety, Logistics, Technical, and Catering. Supporting activities for the Facilities Department are housed within the Operations department. We do all this with an enthusiastic and expert team of employees.
You find it important, just like us, to mean something to others. Collaboration is a matter of course for you, and with your guest-orientedness, proactivity, and result-orientedness, you contribute to the realization of our ambitions!

We make our mission a success by:

• Being in control. This means we are 'in control' regarding the products and services we purchase as well as our own service provision.

• Staying agile. Our environment changes frequently. As a Facilities Department, we must move along with supply and demand. This requires flexible, sustainably deployable employees.

• Being connected. Customer inquiries will be handled integrally from our Facilities Department. We give more than just a direct answer to the question. Where possible, we work intensively with the other service companies.

We measure our success by the satisfaction of our guests, employees, and suppliers and by the pillars of effectiveness & efficiency, financial health, risk management & safety.

Catering Process Group
You will work within the Catering process group. Here, enthusiastic employees work, with a heart for care and a drive to together implement new (food) concepts and lift Catering to a higher level.

You have a fresh perspective, are enthusiastic, flexible, and love to roll up your sleeves. Additionally:

• You have an MBO diploma, preferably in a facilities/hospitality direction or similar.

• You have knowledge of diets and allergens and working with an iPad/computer.

• A passion for food is in your genes.

• You possess good social skills (including instructing colleagues) and a flexible working attitude.

• You can work both independently and as part of a team.

• Familiarity and experience with HACCP is a requirement.

To start successfully in this role, it is important that you have a good command of the Dutch language (minimum B2 level) due to contact with, among others, patients and colleagues. Additionally, it is a condition that you are allowed to work in the Netherlands (EU/EEA nationality or a valid work permit).

For this position, it applies that you must be able to hand over a Certificate of Conduct (VOG) before the start of employment.

Depending on education and experience, the salary is at least € 2,744 and at most € 3,299 gross per month for a full-time appointment. This salary is exclusive of holiday allowance and an end-of-year bonus of 8.3% of your gross annual salary.

This concerns an employment contract of 1 year for an average of 24-32 hours per week in accordance with article 2.4.2 Cao umc, being a temporary contract preceding an employment contract for an indefinite period as referred to in paragraph 3 of article 2.3 Cao umc.

At Maastricht UMC+, we ensure that you have everything to make your contribution to ultimate care. The right employment conditions belong with that. Read here what we offer you.

For more information about the position, the application procedure, or other questions, you can contact Dominique Bucx or Mariella Bouts. Reachable every working day at telephone number: 06-29633812 / 06-51931003.

For information about the application procedure, follow this link. General information about employment conditions and working at Maastricht UMC+ can be found here. Unable to find the answer to your question? Then contact the Recruitment team.

Applications for this vacancy can be submitted up to and including November 1st.

We recruit our candidates ourselves and do not work with external agencies for this vacancy.