Casual Catering Assistant

Wirral Borough Council; England; On-site; GBP 12,000 - 17,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Staff discounts

Excellent pension scheme

Life cover

Ill-health protection

Flexible working

Hybrid working

Family-friendly employment initiatives

28 days annual leave

Job summary

Wirral Borough Council is seeking a Casual Catering Assistant to work across multiple council venues, delivering friendly table service for food and drinks and clearing tables as required.

You'll need to familiarise yourself with menus and advise guests on available options, while playing a key role in supporting catering for the Paul O'Grady Exhibition at the Williamson Art Gallery. The role offers opportunities for development within our catering team.

Qualifications

• Experience in a similar role is required.
• Excellent customer focus and ability to communicate with patrons.
• Fully flexible to work evenings and weekends.

Responsibilities

• Provide table service for food and drinks and clear tables across venues.
• Familiarise yourself with menus and advise guests on options.
• Support catering operations for Paul O'Grady Exhibition at Williamson Art Gallery.
• Be the face of venues and liaise with customers in a busy environment.

Skills

Customer service

Communication

Flexibility

Team player

Job description

About the Role:

We have an exciting opportunity to work as a Casual Catering Assistant to work across multiple council venues.

You will be the face of the venues to our customers and as such you will enjoy liaising with people and deal with all aspects of our offer, to include table service for both food and drinks, along with the clearing tables etc.

You must familiarise yourself with the menus and be able to advise our guests on the options available.

Please also note that you will also play a key role in supporting the catering operation for the highly anticipated Paul O'Grady Exhibition at the Williamson Art Gallery. Launching in December and running for 18 months, this flagship exhibition presents an exciting opportunity to contribute to the visitor experience at one of the Gallery's major cultural events.

You will be involved at the beginning of an adventure with great prospects of further career progression.

About the candidate:

You will be passionate about providing a great service and be able to demonstrate experience in a similar role is required.

We would like to hear from you if you have a great customer focus and ability to communicate with our patrons, in this busy environment, which is an essential part of this role.

You will require great communication skills as you will be dealing with your colleagues and guests and require a sense of fun and enthusiasm.

The ideal candidate will be fully flexible to work evenings and weekends as and when required to meet the business demands.

For further details please contact David Woods, Hospitality Manager on email [e-mail].

Interviews to be held week commencing 23rd November 2026.

We welcome applications from all suitably qualified candidates. For this vacancy, candidates must have an existing right to work in the UK before commencing employment. Skilled Worker visa sponsorship is not available for this post. Eligibility to work in the UK will be verified in the final stages of the selection process.

If you are a Wirral resident, are unemployed or out of work, and require help with your application, please contact Involve Northwest’s employment and skills team on [e-mail] or contact 0151 644 4500 or 0151 652 4349.

If you’re already a Wirral Council employee, and as part of our Talent Strategy, we’re committed to strengthening opportunities for our people to learn, grow, progress, and thrive. For many of you, this may be preparing and applying for your next role with us, and we're passionate about ensuring you feel supported throughout your internal recruitment experience. Please get in touch if you want to know more about some of the ways in which we could support you by emailing [e-mail]

Working at Wirral

You’ll also want to know what it’s like to work here so, as a start:

Our values are more than just pieces of paper on our walls! We’ve all played a role in developing these, so they reflect the immense pride we have in what we do, what matters to us, what inspires us and inform how we think, approach things, and behave.

We believe in ensuring staff are well looked after, staff wellbeing is a priority for us. We’re serious about recognising and rewarding people for the great things they do. You’ll benefit from our track record of developing, growing, and investing in our people.

We have a range of staff benefits including staff discounts, an excellent pension scheme which includes a generous employer contribution rate, immediate life cover and ill-health protection. We have a strong flexible working approach, hybrid working, family-friendly employment initiatives and an annual leave package starting with 28 days leave plus public holidays.

• staff discounts
• an excellent pension scheme which includes a generous employer contribution rate
• immediate life cover
• ill-health protection
• strong flexible working approach
• hybrid working
• family-friendly employment initiatives
• annual leave package starting with 28 days leave plus public holidays

We have an inclusive, engaged culture, everyone has a voice, everyone is valued for their contribution and understands the role they play in delivering our strategic priorities.

Each voice is heard, each contribution valued. We embrace diversity in our workforce and recognise it is critical to our success. We support an inclusive culture that champions differences and nurtures a sense of belonging. We encourage people from diverse backgrounds, who share our values and our commitment to inclusion to apply for roles with us.

We want you to be your best at work, we create the conditions to help you thrive and we mirror this in our recruitment process. If you’d like us to do anything differently during the recruitment process to make it barrier‑free and as accessible as possible please contact [e-mail]

Please note that in accordance with the Council’s policy, employees who are in a formal redeployment situation will be considered in the first instance for all vacancies.

It is Council policy not to re-appoint any employee who has left under the terms of the Council's Early Voluntary Retirement (EVR) scheme or who have left with a voluntary severance (VS) package, unless in exceptional circumstances.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy earlier than the specified date should we receive sufficient applications.