Catering Assistant

Ashford College; Ashford; On-site; GBP 6,900 - 9,300; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Holiday pay

Flexible Personal Leave

Exclusive Discounts & Perks

Wellbeing and Health Support

Competitive Pension Scheme

Job summary

East Kent Colleges Group is seeking a Catering Assistant to join the on-site team at Ashford College. The role covers customer service, food and drink preparation, cashier duties and maintaining a clean, safe kitchen environment for students and staff.

You will work 15 hours per week during term time (35 weeks per year) with 3 hours per day, five days a week, contributing to a high-quality food experience and reliable service across the site.

Qualifications

• Relevant practical industrial experience in cooking and customer service.
• Familiar with professional coffee making machines.
• Experience with cash handling and cashier duties.
• Experience in kitchen cleaning and maintaining a clean, safe working environment.

Responsibilities

• Customer service and cash handling.
• Maintain stock levels and cleanliness of the catering area.
• Prepare and serve hot drinks and food.
• Assist with preparation and serving and general barista duties.

Skills

Cooking

Customer service

Barista coffee

Cash handling

Kitchen cleaning

Education

Health & Safety qualification

Basic Food Hygiene

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.