Catering Assistant - Must Drive

Caterlink LTD; Haverhill; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Part time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Relief Catering Assistant to provide nutritious meals to students. This role offers a unique opportunity to work term-time only, ensuring a great work/life balance without weekend shifts. As part of a dedicated team, you'll engage in food production tasks and maintain high standards of food safety while delivering exceptional customer service. With a commitment to employee development, this role provides access to various training programs and benefits, making it a fantastic choice for those passionate about food and education. Join a team that values flexibility and quality service!

Benefits

Flexible working hours

Employee Discount Platform

Employee Assistance Program

Pension scheme eligibility

Qualifications

• Passionate about delivering efficient service and maintaining high food safety standards.
• Experience in food production and customer service is preferred.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Food Production

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.