General Catering Assistant Volunteer
Location: Crimple House, Harrogate
Hours: various
Closing date: 31/07/2026
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
Through volunteering your time at North Yorkshire Hospice Care you are supporting those in our community who are experiencing terminal illness, bereavement, or wish to access emotional wellbeing support. Volunteers are integral to the work of North Yorkshire Hospice Care and we would love to welcome you to our team.
What we’re looking for:
Previous experience of catering
- To have or have held a food hygiene certificate
- Good interpersonal skills
- The ability to work unsupervised
What we offer:
Herriot Hospice Homecare, Just ‘B’ and Saint Michael’s Hospice are a family of services with our values at the heart of all we do. We are committed to supporting volunteers effectively and appropriately particularly in a role such as this which may be emotionally challenging. We will support our volunteers with:
Full training and ongoing support.
- The opportunity to be part of a caring and dedicated team making a difference in people’s lives.
Getting started:
- Please click the link to complete our online application form.
- Shortlisted applicants will be invited to a volunteer interview.
- If you are successful at interview, we will ask you to complete training via our online system training platform.
- We will complete a DBS check and ask you to provide some information before you begin volunteering.
- Once these steps are completed we will agree your start date.
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 driven to do better
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
- 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. This is part of our commitment to equality and reflecting the diversity of our communities.
- 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 our website: https://saintmichaelshospice.org/safeguarding-statement/
- If you require any support or adjustments to be able to apply for this role, please let us know by emailing [email protected]
For more information on the role, please contact us on [email protected] or on 01423 200145 and we can arrange for you to have an informal discussion with a member of the team.
