Catering Assistant
ISS Facilities Services
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Job summary
ISS Facilities Services is seeking a Catering Assistant in Shoreham-by-Sea. The role is part-time and permanent, with a 11:30–13:30 daily pattern and an hourly rate of £12.71. This position supports school dining services, ensuring healthy meals and a clean, safe dining area.
You will work with a friendly team to prepare and serve meals, follow allergen and dietary requirements, and help maintain high hygiene standards in a school environment.
Qualifications
- Experience in catering, food service, hospitality, or customer-facing roles is desirable.
- Commitment to safeguarding and delivering excellent service.
- Ability to follow procedures and instructions accurately.
Responsibilities
- Prepare, present, and serve meals.
- Set up and clear dining areas.
- Maintain high standards of food safety, hygiene and cleanliness.
- Follow allergen, dietary and special meal requirements.
- Receive, store and handle food deliveries correctly.
- Operate tills where required.
- Report health and safety concerns or equipment faults.
- Provide friendly, professional service to students, staff and visitors.
- Work with the catering team to deliver an excellent customer experience.
Skills
Job description
Working Pattern: Monday - Friday 11:30 - 13:30
Contract Type: Permanent
Hourly Rate: £12.71
Do you enjoy working with people and take pride in delivering great food and great service? Join ISS and help create a positive dining experience for students every day.
As a Catering Assistant, you'll be part of a friendly and supportive team, helping to prepare and serve healthy, nutritious meals in a safe and welcoming school environment. From food preparation and service to maintaining high standards of cleanliness and hygiene, you'll play an important role in ensuring students enjoy their lunchtime experience.
At ISS, you'll be part of a company that values its people and provides opportunities to learn, develop, and grow. One of the key benefits of this role is the term-time-only contract with annualised pay. This means your salary is spread evenly across 12 months and paid monthly, giving you the security of a regular income throughout the year, including during school and college holiday periods.
Support the preparation, presentation, and serving of meals.
Set up and clear dining areas as required.
Maintain high standards of food safety, hygiene, and cleanliness.
Follow allergen, dietary, and special meal requirements.
Receive, store, and handle food deliveries correctly.
Operate tills where required.
Report any health and safety concerns, accidents, or equipment faults.
Provide a friendly and professional service to students, staff, and visitors.
Work collaboratively as part of the catering team to deliver an excellent customer experience.
Previous experience in a catering, food service, hospitality, or customer-facing role desirable.
Commitment to safeguarding, food safety, and delivering excellent service.
Ability to follow procedures, and instructions accurately.
Positive, reliable, and team-focused approach.
ISS is a world-leading workplace and facility management company, connecting people and places to make the world work better. Working with customers day by day, side by side, we understand every aspect of the user experience.
Through a unique combination of intelligent solutions, high standards and people who care, to help our customers achieve their purpose, whether it’s hospitals healing patients, businesses producing the next great innovation, or airports bringing passengers home to their families. ISS is committed to doing business the right way, taking its corporate responsibility very seriously. Our passion is people.
We offer you a challenging and exciting career in an organisation with people at its heart. In ISS, everyone has the opportunity to develop, grow and make a difference. #Becomewhoyouwant, #Bepartofsomethingbigger, #aplacetobeyou,
#facilitiesmanagement
ISS is proud to be a diverse and inclusive employer.
ISS welcomes all applicants regardless of age, disability, gender identity or gender reassignment, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, race (which includes race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin and caste), religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation or educational background.
We are proud to be a Gold Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) award holder and a signatory of the Armed Forces Covenant, recognising our commitment to supporting veterans, reservists, and military families. Through our Joint Forces Programme, we provide mentoring and support to members of the Armed Forces community and their spouses as they transition into civilian careers.
We are a Disability Confident Committed (Level 2) employer, proudly supporting and promoting inclusive hiring practices in line with the UK government’s Disability Confident scheme.
Our passion for inclusivity and diversity makes ISS a more creative, productive and happy place to work.
If you have any further queries regarding this role, please contact the Resourcing Team.
Previous experience in a catering, food service, hospitality, or customer-facing role desirable.Commitment to safeguarding, food safety, and delivering excellent service.Ability to follow procedures, and instructions accurately.Positive, reliable, and team-focused approach.
Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme
Company: ISS Facilities Services
Salary: from £12.71 an hour
Hours: Part-time
Location: Shoreham-by-Sea
Working pattern: On-site
Job type: Permanent
Posting date: 30 Oct 2026
Closing date: 29 Nov 2026
Catering Assistant
Contract: Education
Location: Shoreham, BN43 5WH
Hours of work: 10
Working Pattern: Monday - Friday 11:30 - 13:30
Contract Type: Permanent
Hourly Rate: £12.71
Do you enjoy working with people and take pride in delivering great food and great service? Join ISS and help create a positive dining experience for students every day.
As a Catering Assistant, you'll be part of a friendly and supportive team, helping to prepare and serve healthy, nutritious meals in a safe and welcoming school environment. From food preparation and service to maintaining high standards of cleanliness and hygiene, you'll play an important role in ensuring students enjoy their lunchtime experience.
At ISS, you'll be part of a company that values its people and provides opportunities to learn, develop, and grow. One of the key benefits of this role is the term-time-only contract with annualised pay. This means your salary is spread evenly across 12 months and paid monthly, giving you the security of a regular income throughout the year, including during school and college holiday periods.
Support the preparation, presentation, and serving of meals.
Set up and clear dining areas as required.
Maintain high standards of food safety, hygiene, and cleanliness.
Follow allergen, dietary, and special meal requirements.
Receive, store, and handle food deliveries correctly.
Operate tills where required.
Report any health and safety concerns, accidents, or equipment faults.
Provide a friendly and professional service to students, staff, and visitors.
Work collaboratively as part of the catering team to deliver an excellent customer experience.
Previous experience in a catering, food service, hospitality, or customer-facing role desirable.
Commitment to safeguarding, food safety, and delivering excellent service.
Ability to follow procedures, and instructions accurately.
Positive, reliable, and team-focused approach.
ISS is a world-leading workplace and facility management company, connecting people and places to make the world work better. Working with customers day by day, side by side, we understand every aspect of the user experience.
Through a unique combination of intelligent solutions, high standards and people who care, to help our customers achieve their purpose, whether it’s hospitals healing patients, businesses producing the next great innovation, or airports bringing passengers home to their families. ISS is committed to doing business the right way, taking its corporate responsibility very seriously. Our passion is people.
We offer you a challenging and exciting career in an organisation with people at its heart. In ISS, everyone has the opportunity to develop, grow and make a difference. #Becomewhoyouwant, #Bepartofsomethingbigger, #aplacetobeyou,
#facilitiesmanagement
ISS is proud to be a diverse and inclusive employer.
ISS welcomes all applicants regardless of age, disability, gender identity or gender reassignment, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, race (which includes race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin and caste), religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation or educational background.
We are proud to be a Gold Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) award holder and a signatory of the Armed Forces Covenant, recognising our commitment to supporting veterans, reservists, and military families. Through our Joint Forces Programme, we provide mentoring and support to members of the Armed Forces community and their spouses as they transition into civilian careers.
We are a Disability Confident Committed (Level 2) employer, proudly supporting and promoting inclusive hiring practices in line with the UK government’s Disability Confident scheme.
Our passion for inclusivity and diversity makes ISS a more creative, productive and happy place to work.
If you have any further queries regarding this role, please contact the Resourcing Team.
Previous experience in a catering, food service, hospitality, or customer-facing role desirable.Commitment to safeguarding, food safety, and delivering excellent service.Ability to follow procedures, and instructions accurately.Positive, reliable, and team-focused approach.
Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme
About Disability Confident Disability Confident is a government scheme. It encourages employers to recruit and retain disabled people and those with long term health conditions.
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