Food and Beverage Assistant

JR United Kingdom; Stow; On-site; GBP 10,000 - 15,000; Part time

Job summary

Join a leading company in retirement communities as a Food and Beverage Assistant. In this part-time role, you'll deliver excellent customer service in a restaurant setting, ensuring a clean and welcoming environment for all guests. Ideal candidates will have previous food handling experience and a strong customer focus. Enjoy a range of benefits including a pension plan, generous holiday allowance, and training opportunities.

Benefits

Pension with matched contributions

35 days holiday per year

Training opportunities

Discounts and offers from shops

Qualifications

• High-level customer service skills required.
• Experience in a restaurant or cafe preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide friendly and effective service to customers.
• Ensure food is presented and served in a clean environment.

Skills

Customer Service

Communication

Education

Food Hygiene Certificate

Job description

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We are BrioRetirement; we develop and create retirement communities in desirable locations across the country. Brio is committed to improving the quality and experience of later living.

Join the Places for People Group and our 11,000 colleagues on our journey—colleagues who have helped build, manage, and maintain places that people are proud to call home and stay active in. We do this by surrounding ourselves with can-do, get-things-done, and customer-focused people.

More about your role

At Brio Retirement Village, we are currently recruiting a Food and Beverage Assistant to join our team. This is a great opportunity for a customer-focused individual working at our restaurant.

You will provide friendly and effective service to customers across all areas of the catering department, communicate effectively, and demonstrate a helpful attitude at all times. You will ensure that food is presented and served in a clean and hygienic environment, and that tables and accompaniments are kept clean and adequately stocked.

Please note: This is a part-time position covering 12 hours per week: Wednesday 11:30 - 15:30, Friday 17:30 - 21:30, and Sunday 11:30 - 15:30. On occasion, you may be required to work outside these hours.

Please download the attached Job Description for further information.

More about you

To succeed in this role, you should have high-level customer service skills and be a strong communicator, ideally with previous food handling experience.

It is preferable if you already have or are working towards your food hygiene certificate and have previous experience in a similar role. You should be motivated and able to work during busy periods.

The successful candidate will have:

• Experience working in a restaurant or cafe

The Benefits

We are a large, diverse, and ambitious business, offering job security and plenty of challenges. Here, people can flourish, thrive, improve themselves, and work in fantastic communities with inspirational colleagues and customers.

We offer a comprehensive benefits package, which can include:

• Pension with matched contributions
• 35 days holiday per year
• Training opportunities
• Extra perks, including discounts and offers from shops, cinemas, and more

What's next?

If you meet the criteria and are ready to advance your career, click apply. You will be redirected to our careers site to learn more about the role, read a full job description, and apply directly.

If you are a Places for People customer seeking support with your application, please contact our skills and employment team at [emailprotected].

Recruitment agencies should note we operate a PSL and do not accept cold calls.

At Places for People, safeguarding is everyone's responsibility. We are dedicated to creating safe communities by protecting children, young people, and adults at risk from harm, abuse, and neglect.

We follow strict safeguarding policies and procedures, including pre-employment checks such as DBS checks where applicable, to ensure a safe working environment.

By joining Places for People, you are expected to contribute to our safeguarding culture by following policies and reporting concerns to protect our communities.