Catering Assistant

EKC Group; Ashford; On-site; GBP 6,800 - 9,200; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous holiday pattern

Flexible personal leave

Exclusive discounts & perks

Wellbeing and health support

Competitive pension scheme

Job summary

East Kent Colleges Group in Ashford is looking for a Catering Assistant to join the onsite team. You will perform cashier duties, prepare barista coffee, cook and clean within the division to deliver a great food experience for students and staff.

This role is term time only (35 weeks), 15 hours per week, with 3 hours per day across five days. The successful candidate will have good customer service skills, cash handling experience, and familiarity with coffee machines, while maintaining a

Qualifications

• Experience in cooking, customer service and maintaining a clean, safe working environment.
• Familiar with professional coffee machines, cash handling, and kitchen cleaning.
• Health & Safety qualification or Basic Food Hygiene (essential) and basic IT skills

Responsibilities

• Undertake cashier duties, preparation of Barista coffee, cooking and cleaning.
• Deliver an outstanding food experience to students and staff on site.
• Maintain stock levels and ensure a clean and safe working environment.

Skills

Customer service

Cash handling

Coffee making

Kitchen cleaning

Health & Safety qualification

Job description

About The Role

Deliver Quality, Serve Excellence, Brighten Days - Join us as Catering Assistant

EKC Group are seeking a Catering Assistant to join their commercial team at Ashford college. As a Catering Assistant you will undertake Cashier duties, preparation of Barista Coffee, cooking and cleaning within the Division.

You will be part of small team to deliver an outstanding food experience to our students and staff on site.

As a Catering Assistant you will be responsible for all general catering tasks including customer service, maintaining stock levels, cleaning, cashier duties, preparing and serving hot drinks and food.

Key Details:

Salary: £8,014 per annum (includes holiday pay)

Contract: Term time only 35 weeks per year

Hours per week: 15

Working Pattern: 3 hours per day 5 days a week

Alongside our priority of excellent student experience, we also focus highly on our employees!

Here are just some of our benefits when working for the East Kent Colleges Group:

• Generous and Consistent Holiday Pattern
• Flexible Personal Leave
• Exclusive Discounts & Perks
• Wellbeing and Health Support
• Competitive Pension Scheme

Full list of company benefits

About You

We are seeking to appoint a well organised and confident individual to our catering team. The successful candidate will have relevant practical industrial experience e.g Cooking, customer service, familiar with professional coffee making machines, Cash handling, kitchen cleaning, chemical handling, general pot wash duties. You will also have good customer service skills and experience of maintaining a clean and safe working environment.

The ideal candidate will hold a Health & Safety qualification related to relevant area of work or equivalent e.g. Basic Food Hygiene and have basic IT Skills.

About Us

Outstanding Ofsted Provider

East Kent Colleges Group is an Ofsted Outstanding rated provider. It is proud to be the first General Further Education college organisation in the country to have received the Outstanding grade against each of the strands under the new Ofsted inspection framework. An inclusive provider, our colleagues place our students and the communities we serve at the heart of everything they do across EKC Group and this is illustrated in our ‘Strong’ skills grading by Ofsted.

Commitment to Safeguarding

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and we ensure that all staff are aware of their responsibilities for upholding these principles.

As a designated establishment, we are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore have an obligation to carry out checks to ensure that staff are suitable to work with children and vulnerable adults. These checks include conviction/caution self-declaration, Enhanced DBS check and obtaining sufficient referencing.

It is a criminal offence to apply for a post which involves engaging in regulated activity relevant to children if you are barred from doing so.

If you are successful in being shortlisted to interview, your suitability to work with children and vulnerable adults will be explored as part of the interview process.

Commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

East Kent CollegesGroup is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all members of our communities. We are particularly keen to increase the diversity of our staff body and encourage applications from candidates where there is underrepresentation in our workforce.

We are proud to hold the Positive About Disability Award and are a Disability Confident Employer. This confirms our commitment to interviewing all applicants who declare that they have a disability and who meet the essential criteria outlined in the person specification. With any successful candidate, we will explore any reasonable adjustments to a role due to a health needs or disability.

Similarly, we have a commitment to Care Leavers (Care Covenant Pledge) and to current or previous Armed Forces personnel (Armed Forces Covenant Pledge) with a commitment to interview applicants who meet the positions essential criteria and who have declared this on their application.

We welcome applications from anyone wishing to work flexibly and those considering a return to work from a career break.

We do not engage with agencies for permanent staff and have an in-house recruitment team.