Food and Beverage Assistant

Signature Senior Lifestyle; Reigate; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

A renowned senior care provider in Reigate is seeking a Food and Beverage Assistant to provide warm, restaurant-quality service to residents. In this role, you'll support various dining operations and ensure a clean dining environment. Candidates should be friendly, organized, and ideally have experience in a busy restaurant. This position requires adaptability across multiple departments, making it ideal for someone passionate about hospitality.

Qualifications

• Experience in a busy restaurant is an advantage.
• Ability to handle complaints professionally.
• Friendly and compassionate demeanor.

Responsibilities

• Deliver restaurant quality service to residents.
• Support dining operations in various departments.
• Ensure dining area cleanliness and organization.

Skills

Customer service

Communication

Organizational skills

Job description

Become the warm, welcoming face of our bistro and restaurants when you join Signature Senior Lifestyle as a Food and Beverage Assistant, at our luxury care and nursing home in Reigate. We aim to offer a food & beverage service experience that is comfortable, easy, accessible and surprising.

Our Food and Beverage Assistant will deliver restaurant quality service to our residents with a smile. You’ll welcome residents in, explain menu choices in a clear, concise way, serve food from the kitchen and take pride in keeping the dining room spotlessly clean. Your role will also support dining operations or food & beverage service in other areas such as the Private dining room, Café, Sky Lounge Bistro or special events as applicable to the home where you are applying.

You’ll take dealing with complaints in your stride, ensuring the resident feels listened to and understood, and making sure the supervisor is informed of any issues quickly, in a calm and polite manner.

Internally, this role is called Hospitality Assistant, if you are successful this will be your job title. You will be required to work across a range of departments including Housekeeping, Food & Beverage and Wellbeing & Lifestyle. Responsibilities will vary on each shift depending on which department you are supporting.

We are kind and compassionate. Positive and resilient. Proactive and organised. Honest and accountable. Passionate and keen to develop. If this sounds like you, you’ll fit right in.

As well as your charming, friendly personality and exceptional organisational skills, a year’s experience working in a busy restaurant is an advantage.