Hospitality Supervisor- School Term Only

Thomas Franks; Ashtead; On-site; GBP 23,000 - 29,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free meals on duty

Cycle to work scheme

Workplace pension

Training and development

Employee assistance programme

Job summary

Thomas Franks is seeking a hospitality supervisor to join our team at Ashtead Park, a busy day and boarding school in Ashtead Park, Surrey. You will oversee the hospitality operation and help deliver breakfast, lunch, supper, and service across the site.

Ideal candidates will have experience in fast-paced catering, excellent customer service, and be an all-round team player with organised, detail‑oriented work. Barista skills are essential as you’ll assist with hot drinks and serving customers.

Qualifications

• Experience in fast-paced catering environments.
• Good written and verbal English.
• Similar experience in customer and/or food preparation environment preferred.

Responsibilities

• Oversee the hospitality operation.
• Ensure food standards are adhered to and wastage controlled.
• Ensure all Food Hygiene and Health & Safety policies and allergen control procedures are followed.
• Support the team with serving customers, replenishing stocks, making hot drinks, clearing down (Barista skills essential).

Skills

Customer service

Hospitality experience

Team player

Attention to detail

Barista skills

Job description

A day and boarding co-educational school for pupils from year 3 to 6th form in Ashtead Park, Surrey. Catering for 950 students and teachers daily. We offer a core feeding of Breakfast, lunch, supper, tuckshop twice daily, 6th form café, internal and external hospitality. This is a mix of term time only, term time plus 4 weeks and 52 week depending on role and operates 7 days a week. Additional benefit to this location is free parking on site.

We are looking for a hospitality supervisor to join our team at one of our prestigious locations in Ashtead Park.

You will ideally have previous experience of working within a fast-paced catering environment as a hospitality assistant or supervisor.

You will enjoy what you do, working with a great team, for a company fanatical about food serving wonderful customers.

Key responsibilities:

• To oversee the hospitality operation
• Ensuring company food standards are adhered to and wastage controlled.
• Ensuring all Food Hygiene and Health & Safety policies and allergen control procedures are followed.
• To support the team with serving customers, replenishing stocks, making hot drinks, clearing down (Barista skills essential).

You will have the following skills:

• Excellent customer service skills
• Hospitality experience required
• An all-round team player
• Organised with attention to detail

Knowledge / competencies:

• Ability to demonstrate reasonable / good understanding and use of verbal English.
• Ability to demonstrate reasonable / good standard of written English and reading skills.
• Similar experience of customer and / or food preparation environment is preferred

Benefits

• Wider wallet scheme (discounts at major retailers, restaurants, gyms etc).
• Free meals on duty
• Volunteers leave - up to one day per year.
• Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoptive leave.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Recommend a friend bonus.
• Unrivalled individual training and development.
• Well established apprenticeship programme.
• Team & company social events.
• Employee assistance programme.
• Workplace pension
• Excellent career progression within a leading independent contract caterer.

About us

Thomas Franks is a founder led, fresh food catering business with a focus on excellence and service delivered with individuality, passion and style. We are unique in every approach and our clients, and our people are paramount to our daily success.

Disclaimer

All applicants must be able to demonstrate that they have the Right to Work in the UK to be considered for this role.

An enhanced DBS, Identity & reference checks (covering the last five years) will form part of the selection process. As an organisation using the Disclosure Barring Service (DBS) Disclosure service to assess applicants' suitability for positions of trust, Thomas Franks Ltd complies fully with the DBS Code of Practice and undertakes to treat all applicants for positions fairly. We are committed to safeguarding the welfare of children and undertake not to discriminate unfairly against any subject of a Disclosure based on conviction or other information revealed. However, for any post in a school please be aware that any application is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and as such any criminal conviction, caution or bind-over must be declared.

Diversity and Inclusion at Thomas Franks

We actively encourage applications from candidates from diverse backgrounds and continue to develop a culture of growth and inclusion and would like to invite applications from groups who are currently under-represented, because we believe greater diversity leads to exceptional results and provides a better working life.