Dining Room Assistant

Thomas Franks; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 26,000 - 29,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free meals on duty

Cycle to work scheme

Volunteer leave

Enhanced parental leave

Team & company social events

Employee assistance programme

Job summary

Thomas Franks is looking for a Dining Room Assistant for a term-time contract at a London school. The role focuses on serving meals to pupils, helping with eating and cleaning, and maintaining hygiene standards.

Applicants should have experience in a school dining environment, be able to communicate in English, and work as part of a team to deliver high-quality food and service. The position is full-time, 40 hours per week, with 40 weeks a year.

Qualifications

• Experience in a school dining room or similar environment.
• Ability to support children with eating, serving and cleaning.
• Good level of spoken and written English is essential.

Responsibilities

• Deliver meals to children and promote healthy eating.
• Ensure meals meet allergies and intolerance requirements.
• Follow Food Hygiene and Health & Safety policies and allergen controls.
• Set up and clear down dining room before and after service.
• Work well with kitchen and production team to deliver service.

Skills

Customer service

Team player

Attention to detail

Verbal English

Written English

Job description

Contract: Full Time , Permanent
Salary: £13.13
Hours: 40 per week

A small independent pre-prep day school for boys and part of a large group of schools. Set in the heart of gorgeous Kensington & Chelsea, London. Catering for about 170 students and teachers. We offer a core feeding of Lunch & mid morning snack. There will be some amount of hospitality offering at this location. This is a term time only contract working 40 weeks a year. This school operates Monday to Friday.

We are looking for a talented Dining Room Assistant to join our team at one of our fabulous locations in London.

You will have previous experience of working within a schools working with children in a dining room environment.You will be excited to work with young children, supporting them with eating, serving and cleaning after them.

Key responsibilities:

• To deliver food to the children, establishing good eating habits, supporting them to try new foods.
• To ensure any child with any allergy or intolerances is given the correct foods.
• Ensuring all Food Hygiene and Health & Safety policies and allergen control procedures are followed.
• Helping set up and close down the dining room environment.
• Clear and clean after the lunchtime service.
• Great team player.
• Be able to work well with the food production team to deliver great food and service.

You will have the following skills:

• A genuine interest in food & excellent customer service.
• An all-round team player.
• An organised Dining Room Assistant with attention to detail.
• Ability to demonstrate reasonable / good understanding and use of verbal English.
• Ability to demonstrate reasonable / good standard of written English and reading skills.
• Similar experience of customer and / or food preparation environment is preferred.
• Wider wallet scheme (discounts at major retailers, restaurants, gyms etc).
• Free meals on duty
• Volunteers leave - up to one day per year.
• Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoptive leave.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Recommend a friend bonus.
• Unrivalled individual training and development.
• Well established apprenticeship programme.
• Team & company social events.
• Employee assistance programme.
• Excellent career progression within a leading independent contract caterer.

About us

Thomas Franks is a founder led, fresh food catering business with a focus on excellence and service delivered with individuality, passion and style. We are unique in every approach and our clients, and our people are paramount to our daily success.

Disclaimer

All applicants must be able to demonstrate that they have the Right to Work in the UK to be considered for this role.

An enhanced DBS, Identity & reference checks (covering the last five years) will form part of the selection process. As an organisation using the Disclosure Barring Service (DBS) Disclosure service to assess applicants' suitability for positions of trust, Thomas Franks Ltd complies fully with the DBS Code of Practice and undertakes to treat all applicants for positions fairly. We are committed to safeguarding the welfare of children and undertake not to discriminate unfairly against any subject of a Disclosure based on conviction or other information revealed. However, for any post in a school please be aware that any application is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and as such any criminal conviction, caution or bind-over must be declared.

Diversity and Inclusion at Thomas Franks

We actively encourage applications from candidates from diverse backgrounds and continue to develop a culture of growth and inclusion and would like to invite applications from groups who are currently under-represented, because we believe greater diversity leads to exceptional results and provides a better working life.