Restaurant Service Assistant

TN United Kingdom; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading housing association in the UK is seeking a Restaurant Service Assistant to provide high-quality catering services. The role involves ensuring food safety, cleanliness, and excellent customer service in an extra care setting. Ideal candidates will have a passion for serving the community and engaging with elderly customers.

Benefits

25 days’ holiday plus Bank Holidays

Up to 8% contributory pension

Flexible working

Investment in learning and development

Annual allowance for health and lifestyle benefits

Cycle to Work Scheme

Qualifications

• Experience in catering and food hygiene standards.
• Ability to engage with elderly vulnerable customers.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high quality meals to clients in sheltered accommodation.
• Maintain cleanliness of kitchen and storerooms.
• Assist Chef Manager with deliveries and stock management.

Skills

Cooking

Customer Engagement

Education

GCSE in Maths & English

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Jobtitle: Restaurant Service Assistant
Contract: Permanent
Hours: 16 – 18 hours per week Mon-Fri
Salary: £ per hour
Location: Onsite at Charles Clore Court, Reading, Berkshire

About A2Dominion
We are a UK housing association committed to a new vision – providing homespeople love to live in.

With over 38,000 homes in management across London and southern England, weprovide a wide range of homes for social, affordable, and private rent,specialist services, as well ashomesfor sale and shared ownership.

Our 70,000+ customers come from a diverse range of backgrounds with varyinglevels of income. We’re here to provide them all withhomes that are safe, high quality and sustainable.

And with social housing roots going back eight decades, we continue to ensurethat every penny of profit is reinvested into our charitable social purpose –delivering more homes and better services for customers.

Aboutthe role
To provide a comprehensive catering service, ensuring we deliver high qualitymeals to clients living in sheltered accommodation and/or the widercommunity.This role is to work in an extra care setting operating withinthe catering service to deliver excellent customer service.

Key responsibilities
- Responsible for checking resident food profiles for allergies, preferencesand IDDSI rating. Adhering to Company and Environmental Health Standards.
- Responsible for upholding the cleanliness of all aspects within the kitchen,storerooms and kitchen office. Washing uniforms on-site and maintaining a tidy,extensive supply.
- Assisting the Chef Manager with deliveries. Stock rotation and removing anyout-of-date items. Communicating when products running low.
- Carry out Health, Safety and Food Hygiene standards checks as directed byA2Dominion Catering Standards and ensuring that all practices meet thestatutory regulations, including the Registered Homes Act 1984, andA2Dominion’s Health and Safety policy.
- Supporting the Chef Manager in preparing and responding to inspections oraudits by external authorities and other bodies to fulfil reportingrequirements.
- Responsible for arranging and managing mandatory training requirements set byA2Dominion. Serving meals to residents within the restaurant

More about You
The following are desirable:
- Educated to GCSE level or equivalent in Maths & English (Grades A* - C)
- Cooking experience desirable
- Knowledge of Extra Care home environment
- Ability to engage with elderly vulnerable customers and their families
- You won’t necessarily have experience in this sector, as we recognise thattransferrable skills and experience are just as valuable.
- We are specifically looking for candidates with the right skills andattitudes, who will demonstrate and promote our values of caring by nature,working better together and thinking for tomorrow.

Applicationprocess
Please attach a tailored CV for this role, ensuring it highlights relevantexperience and provides explanations for any employment gaps.
Choosing us is easy

As an employee of A2Dominion, we want you to feel rewarded and have a choice offlexible benefits, salary exchange benefits, and rewards and discounts thatwork for you, wherever you are in your life.

We offer a wide range of staff benefits. For this role, these include:
- 25 days’ holiday (Plus Bank Holidays) increasing up to 28 days with 3 yearsof service
- Up to 8% contributory pension
- Flexible working
- Investment in your learning and development

In addition, all permanent and fixed-term employees receive a generous annualallowance of up to £300 to use towards health and lifestyle benefits for bothyou and your family.

We also operate a Cycle to Work Scheme whereby employees have access to cyclingequipment throughout the year and can pay via monthly salary deductions.

A2Dominion Group is a Disability Confident Employer which means that we arecommitted to employing disabled people and will: actively look to attract andrecruit disabled people, provide a fully inclusive and accessible recruitmentprocess, offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the minimumcriteria for the job, be flexible with assessing people so disabled applicantshave the best opportunity to demonstrate that they can do the job, makereasonable adjustments as required.

At A2Dominion Group, we recognise the positive value of diversity, promoteequality and inclusivity in our hiring processes. We always aim to recruit theperson who is most suited to the job and welcome applications from people ofall backgrounds – men and women, people of all ages, sexual orientations,nationalities, religions, and beliefs.

If you require a reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process, pleasecontact our Resourcing Team to request:

Meeting the role requirements
We recognise that some females will only apply for a role if they meet 100% ofrole requirements. If this sounds like you, we’d still encourage you toapply and also to arrange a call with one of our Resourcing Team to discussyour application further at

A2Dominion are proud to be a family friendly employer
Everyone is welcome at A2Dominion Group. We know that equality, diversity, andinclusivity make us better. We embrace the unique contributions of our peopleand seek to create a workplace where everyone feels like they belong. Find outwhy our people love working with us.

Join us at A2Dominion, where your expertise will be integral to our recoveryjourney, creating lasting positive changes in the lives of our customers. Ifyou possess the right motivation and drive to contribute to our recovery andchange initiatives, we invite you to apply and be a crucial part of our team.
Closingdate for this role is Friday 30th May 2025, we reserve the right to close thisrole upon appointment of a successful candidate.