Catering Assistant

Impact Food Group; City Of London; On-site; Full time

Job summary

A catering service provider in the City of London is seeking a Catering Assistant for a role starting August 2025. Responsibilities include providing friendly service, assisting in food preparation, and maintaining cleanliness. Enjoy a work-life balance with daytime hours, weekends free, and all school holidays off. Experience in customer service or catering is preferred, and additional benefits include free meals on shift and development opportunities.

Benefits

Free meals on shift

Career development opportunities

Staff discount scheme

Qualifications

• Ability to provide friendly and efficient service.
• Experience in food preparation and hygiene standards.

Responsibilities

• Work as part of the catering team to provide service.
• Assist in food preparation and counter service.
• Maintain cleanliness in kitchen and restaurant areas.

Skills

Customer service skills

Catering or retail experience

Job description

Overview

Impact Food Group is made up of 4 brands, Innovate, Cucina, Hutchison and Chapter One. We specialise in providing an exceptional catering service to the education sector and are Catey award winning.

We are looking for people who are devoted to great service, fantastic food, and making a positive impact.

About the role

THIS ROLE IS TO START END OF AUGUST 2025 READY FOR THE NEW SUMMER TERM

Job Title: Catering Assistant

School Location: Vyners

Working Days: Monday to Friday

Shifts & Working hours: 9.15am-2.30pm (26.25 hours per week)

Working Weeks: 39 weeks per year (term time plus inset days)

Pay Details: £12.21 per hour

What will I be doing?

• Working as part of the catering team at the site to provide a friendly, efficient and hygienic service to all customers.
• Assist in the preparation of food and snacks for the site
• Counter service and till work
• Keeping the kitchen and restaurant areas in a clean and tidy state at all times.

We’re open to people with great customer service skills, ideally from a catering or retail background, but if that’s not you, don’t let it put you off. We’re not in the business of making school food, we’re here to make good food, after all, that’s why our clients and customers love us!

So maybe you fancy working somewhere close to home, with daytime hours, and with your weekends and evenings free? Not to mention all school holidays off, giving you the opportunity for some great work-life balance. As an added bonus a free meal is supplied on shift!

We’ll give you a place to grow and a career to be proud of. There are loads of free qualifications and career development opportunities to be had and we’ve got a staff discount scheme at over 850 retailers! We also run monthly opportunities for the best teams to win shopping vouchers.

If you think you’ve got what it takes, and the times above suit you, we’d love to hear from you!

A short kitchen visit and interview will be required for this role.

IFG are committed to the safeguarding of children and our employees share this commitment. Successful candidates are required to undergo an enhanced DBS check, which IFG will pay for.

We are a committed equal opportunities employer - if you require any assistance for the interview process, please detail within your application. All information is kept confidential and in compliance with GDPR requirements.