Catering Assistant

Caterlink LTD; Rickmansworth; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 24,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player in the education sector is seeking a dedicated Catering Assistant to join their team. This role is perfect for individuals who are passionate about providing nutritious meals to students, ensuring a clean and efficient food service environment. The position offers a fantastic work/life balance, as it is term-time only, with no weekend shifts. Employees will benefit from a supportive learning environment with opportunities for development, including training and apprenticeships. Join a team that values diversity, equity, and inclusion while making a positive impact on future generations.

Benefits

Employee Discounts

Pension Scheme

Employee Assistance Program

Virtual GP Benefits

Blended Learning Programme

Qualifications

• Experience in customer service and good organization skills are essential.
• Previous experience in school kitchens is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Prepare food and snacks, ensuring cleanliness in the kitchen and restaurant.
• Serve food to students while maintaining high food safety standards.

Skills

Customer Service

Organisation Skills

Teamwork

Food Safety

Education

Experience in School Kitchens

Job description

Caterlink is the education sector catering specialist. For over 20 years, the Company has delivered fresh food solutions to pupils and staff at Primary Schools, Secondary Schools and Colleges across the UK. The company caters more than 1,000,000 meals a week. Our “Fresh Food Policy” is the foundation of our success and growth in the market coupled with a desire to truly deliver on the promises we make to our clients and support our site-based teams.

Job Description

• Catering Assistant
• Term time only
• DBS provided
• Employee Discounts

We are looking for a Catering Assistant who wants to ensure our future generations are provided with nutritionally balanced and tasty food. We are looking for a friendly, hard-working and approachable team member to perform a variety of food production tasks along with food service.

Tasks will include preparing food and snacks, ensuring the kitchen and restaurant areas are clean and tidy, serving food to our students and completing food safety training. You should be passionate about delivering an efficient service to our students whilst ensuring we maintain great customer service and high food safety standards.

With Caterlink you will have an excellent work/life balance – working term-time only and no weekends so this role is great for those looking for flexibility.

Caterlink is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all employees to share this commitment. An enhanced DBS disclosure will be obtained for this role.

Caterlink strives to always provide a diverse, equitable and inclusive environment for all our teams where every individual is treated with respect, integrity and has the opportunity to grow and be treated equally and with fairness at all times.

Qualifications

• Previous experience in School kitchens - Desirable
• Customer Service experience
• Good organisation skills
• Reliable and able to work well within a team

Additional Information

There are many advantages to working for us including:

• With Caterlink you have the opportunity to a blended learning programme that can include formal qualifications including Apprenticeships, classroom training, eLearning and on the job training to support and encourage your development and enable you to be the best you can be. Everyone who joins us is provided with an induction where they learn more about us and enable them to be the best they can be. We invest in development opportunities and are always looking to recruit, train and retain the best people for our own future talent and your own future development.
• Working for Caterlink ensures you are able to enjoy a great work/life balance – this is the beauty of working term-time only and no weekends!
• We offer you access to our Employee Discount Platform where you can make great savings at supermarkets, cinema, restaurants as well as holiday discounts, family days out and many more!
• Our Employee Assistance Program and Virtual GP benefits are there for you and your family to use free of charge at any time.
• You may be eligible to join our Pension scheme.