Caterlink - Group Catering Assistant

Caterlink LTD; Maidstone; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 24,000; Part time

Job summary

An established industry player in education catering seeks a Group Catering Assistant to support site-based teams in Maidstone. This role involves preparing and serving nutritious meals, ensuring high food safety standards, and providing excellent customer service. With a focus on work-life balance, this position offers term-time hours only, allowing for flexibility and a fulfilling work environment. Join a team that values diversity and promotes the welfare of children, while enjoying numerous development opportunities and employee benefits. If you are friendly, hardworking, and passionate about food service, this role is perfect for you.

Benefits

Employee Discount Platform

Employee Assistance Program

Virtual GP benefits

Pension scheme eligibility

Qualifications

• Passion for delivering efficient service and maintaining food safety standards.
• Experience in food production tasks and customer service.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Food Preparation

Customer Service

Food Safety Standards

Teamwork

Education

Food Safety Training

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

We are looking for a Group Catering Assistant to support our existing site-based teams who will 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.

This role will be a mobile based role within 3 sites in Maidstone within a mile of each other.

16 Hours per week MINIMUM - overtime will be a regular part of this role.

Term Time only - 185 days per year.

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.

Additional Information

There are many advantages to working for us including:

1. 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.
2. 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!
3. 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!
4. Our Employee Assistance Program and Virtual GP benefits are there for you and your family to use free of charge at any time.
5. You may be eligible to join our Pension scheme.