Food Service Assistant

Durham University; North East; On-site; GBP 12,000 - 15,000; Part time

Job summary

Durham University is recruiting for catering positions across its Catered Colleges. You will work as part of a team to provide courteous, professional and efficient catering services to students, colleagues and guests, ensuring dining areas are set up to an exceptional standard and remain clean and safe.

You will also wash up and clean after service, with some manual handling involved. Multiple shift patterns exist, including 7:30am-3:00pm, 10:00am-3:00pm and 4:30pm-8:00pm, with occasional 10pm

Qualifications

• Punctual and reliable.
• Willing to work flexible shifts, including evenings and weekends.
• Ability to handle manual tasks in a catering environment.

Responsibilities

• Provide courteous, professional catering service to students, colleagues and guests.
• Set up dining areas to a high standard and maintain cleanliness and safety.
• Wash up using an automatic dishwasher and clear/clean food areas after service.
• Handle manual tasks including lifting and transporting catering equipment.

Job description

The Role

You will be working as part of a team to provide students, colleagues and guests with a courteous, professional, friendly and efficient catering service. Working as part of the catering team you will ensure that food service and dining areas are set up to an exceptional standard and remain clean, tidy and a safe working environment. Washing up is completed as part of the role, this will include the use of an automatic dishwasher, and after service, all food areas are cleared and cleaned.

Working in a catering environment requires an element of physical manual handling which can include lifting and transporting food and catering equipment, including heavy plates and cutlery.

We will require you to be punctual, flexible and willing to work variable shift patterns, including evenings and weekends. Example of the shifts are breakfast/lunch 7.30am-3pm, lunch 10am-3pm and dinner 4.30pm-8pm with on occasion finishing at 10pm if there is a function taking place.

Specific Role Information

We have 19 positions available across our Catered Colleges with various shift patterns available:

• 3 positions are 52 weeks a year, working any 5 days from 7 including weekends.
• 16 position are 32 weeks a year (Term Time Only), working any 5 days from 7 including weekends.