Hospitality Assistant

Waitrose & Partners; Bracknell; On-site; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading company as a Hospitality Assistant, where you'll provide exceptional food service in a Partner dining room. You'll ensure high standards of food preparation and presentation, support catering tasks, and engage positively with Partners. This role offers a chance to be part of a supportive team in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• Previous catering experience required.
• Worked in a forward-thinking customer-facing environment.

Responsibilities

• Provide positive Partner interactions with a friendly attitude.
• Ensure stock is stored and replenished appropriately.
• Maintain personal hygiene standards.

Skills

Food Hygiene

Customer Service

Education

Basic Food Hygiene Certificate

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About The Role

As a Hospitality Assistant, you'll work in our Partner (employee) dining room providing food to our Partners. You'll take great pride in your food preparation and presentation standards and ensure the best possible catering experience. You'll also support with other catering related tasks, including stock replenishment, storage of deliveries, food preparation and pot wash.At a Glance

• Contract Type: Permanent
• Location: Bracknell
• Salary Range: £12.21 - £12.60 per hour.
• Partnership Level: 10
• Hours: 12 hours per week to include evenings and weekends.
  
  

As a Hospitality Assistant, you'll work in our Partner (employee) dining room providing food to our Partners. You'll take great pride in your food preparation and presentation standards and ensure the best possible catering experience.

You'll also support with other catering related tasks, including stock replenishment, storage of deliveries, food preparation and pot wash.

Key Responsibilities

Working in a catering operation is fast-paced. Daily responsibilities will include:

• Work as a team to ensure a smooth catering service.
• Provide positive Partner interactions with a friendly and welcoming attitude.
• Follow procedures and instructions using the 'Health and Safety at Work Act' and 'Food Safety Act' when completing all relevant tasks.
• Ensure stock is stored away appropriately and replenished.
• Reduce food wastage by ensuring care and due diligence when rotating food stock.
• Act promptly and use your initiative to resolve any issues that arise in the operation.
• Maintain personal hygiene standards.
• Providing prompt service when working on a cashless till.
• Maintaining vending machines - cleaning and re-stocking.
  
  

Essential Skills/experience You'll Need

• Basic Food Hygiene Certificate.
• Previous catering experience.
• Worked in a forward thinking customer facing environment.
  
  

Desirable Skills/experience You May Have

• Food Safety level 2 & 3.
• Basic Food Hygiene Certificate.
  
  

About The Partnership

We’re the largest employee owned business in the UK and home of our cherished brands, John Lewis and Waitrose. We’re not just employees, we’re Partners, driven by our purpose to build a happier world. As we look to our future, there’s never been a more exciting time to join us.

We’re ruthlessly focused on being brilliant at retail. We continue to innovate, adapt and diversify. Never Knowingly Undersold on price, quality and service in John Lewis and passionately serving food-lovers in Waitrose.

As Partners we all share the responsibility of ownership and in its rewards. We use our voices to contribute to our success, working together through the good and challenging times, holding true to our behaviours and treating everyone with kindness and respect.

We all own making the Partnership somewhere we belong. Embracing our differences and creating an environment where we’re free to be ourselves and can THRIVE. Growing ourselves individually, and as a collective.

As Partners, we make all the difference. And, we all own it.

Important points to note:

It’s important to note that some of our roles are subject to pre-employment vetting (which may include DBS checks for successful candidates). If required, you’ll be informed and provided with information about vetting during the recruitment process and we encourage you to complete any vetting documents quickly to avoid delays. Any DBS checks required will be carried out by a third-party registered body and financial probity checks may also be required for some of our roles.

We also recommend that you apply as soon as possible as vacancies can close early if we see a high number of applicants.

We want all of our Partners to have a good work-life balance and we support flexible working. This might mean flexible or compressed hours, job sharing or shorter hour contracts, where possible. Please discuss this further with the hiring manager during your interview.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Entry level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Management and Manufacturing

• Industries

  Retail

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