Food Service Assistant Supervisor

Durham University; North East; On-site; GBP 10,000 - 15,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading educational institution in the North East is seeking a Catering Assistant to provide professional customer service and maintain cleanliness and safety in dining areas. The role involves supervising team members, ensuring food service standards, and working flexible shifts, including evenings and weekends. Interested candidates should be punctual, flexible, and ready for a physically demanding role.

Qualifications

• Punctual and flexible with variable shift patterns.
• Ability to supervise and work as part of a team.
• Experience in a catering environment preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide excellent customer service in catering.
• Supervise team to ensure high standards.
• Maintain cleanliness and safety in dining areas.

Job description

The Role and Department

You will be working part of a team to provide students, colleagues, and guests with a courteous, professional, friendly and efficient catering service.

Effectively supervise the team to ensure excellent customer service and to lead by example, demonstrating excellent teamwork and the ability to appropriately delegating tasks and responsibility to team members and follow instruction.

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.

Specific Role Information

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.

Please note: If you have recently applied for this position and have been unsuccessful in the past 6 months, your application will not be considered

Who to contact for more information

If you would like to have a chat or ask any questions about the role or if you are struggling to complete the application process, the Systems & Administration Team would be happy to speak to you - .