Catering Assistant - Must Drive

Cater Link Limited; Haverhill; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Part time

Job summary

An established industry player in the education sector is seeking a Relief Catering Assistant to join their team. This role focuses on providing nutritionally balanced meals to students while maintaining high standards of food safety and customer service. The successful candidate will enjoy a flexible work schedule, working term-time only, with no weekends. The company values employee development, offering training opportunities and a supportive work environment, ensuring a great work/life balance. If you are passionate about food and service, this is an excellent opportunity to make a difference in the lives of students.

Benefits

Employee Discount Platform

Employee Assistance Program

Virtual GP Benefits

Pension Scheme

Qualifications

• Experience in food preparation and service is preferred.
• Passion for delivering efficient service and maintaining food safety.

Responsibilities

• Prepare food and snacks while ensuring cleanliness in kitchen areas.
• Serve food to students and complete food safety training.

Skills

Food Preparation

Customer Service

Food Safety Standards

Teamwork

Education

School Catering Experience

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.

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.

Job Description

We are looking for a Relief 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.

We are recruiting for a Mobile Catering Assistant to cover schools in Haverhill & surrounding villages; therefore, the applicant must be able to drive. The permanent hours for this role are 10am-2pm, Monday - Friday, Term Time only. £12.21 per hour.

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.

Qualifications

School Catering Experience preferred but not essential.

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.