Kitchen Assistant/Café Assistant

ST RICHARDS HOSPICE FOUNDATION; Worcester; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 29,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fantastic team where everyone is Wel

Supportive management - keen todevelop

Generous annual leave (seven weeks)

Benenden Healthcare / cash plan

Flexible working

Family friendly policies

On-site café

NHS pension for clinical staff

Free Will writing service

Job summary

St Richard's Hospice is seeking a Kitchen Assistant/Café Assistant in Worcester to join the catering team. The role includes preparing and serving meals for patients, staff, volunteers and visitors, with duties split between kitchen and café environments in a new restaurant and social space.

The position is full-time (37.5 hours per week) with a fixed-term 12-month contract, offering a competitive salary and benefits, plus opportunities to contribute to fundraising events for the hospice.

Qualifications

• Previous experience in a catering environment and in a customer service role are essential.
• Excellent customer service and food safety knowledge.
• Ability to make barista-style coffees and sandwiches in a café environment.

Responsibilities

• Assist chefs with preparing and serving high quality meals.
• Wash up and cleaning in the kitchen when required.
• In the café, make barista-style coffees, sandwiches and serve customers.
• Support catering for functions and events to raise funds for the hospice.

Skills

Customer service

Food safety

Barista skills

Job description

Kitchen Assistant/Café Assistant

Job titleKitchen Assistant/Café Assistant

Hours 37.5 hours per week

Salary £26,227

Contract Fixed term 12 month contract

Location Wildwood Drive, Worcester WR5 2QT

The role

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the catering team at St Richard's Hospice as a Kitchen/Cafe Assistant. You will be part of a team responsible for providing food and beverages for patients, staff, volunteers and visitors. Alongside catering for functions and events to raise funds to support the work of the hospice.

This is an interesting and varied role, with working patterns split between general kitchen assistant duties and café assistant duties in our superb newly built restaurant and social space.

The successful applicant will assist the chefs with preparing and serving high quality and nutritious meals and will take responsibility for washing up and cleaning in the kitchen. On other days it will involve working in the café, making barista style coffees, making sandwiches and serving a variety of customers.

Our focus is on customer satisfaction, presentation, great service and fresh food. You will need to have high standards of customer service and food safety knowledge.

This is a full-time role, weekend and public holiday work will be required.

About you

The successful applicant will be adaptable and able to work on their own initiative as well as being part of a team. A flexible attitude to working in all areas of the catering department is essential.

If you have a passion for catering, have excellent customer service skills and would like to make a difference to patients living with a terminal illness and their families we would love to hear from you.

You will be rewarded with excellent job satisfaction, knowing that you are working for a worthwhile cause and making a difference to the lives of others every day.

Previous experience in a catering environment and in a customer service role are essential.

What we offer

We offer a competitive salary and a wide range of benefits including;

• Fantastic team where everyone is welcomed and empowered to give their best
• Supportive management - keen to develop you
• Generous annual leave (seven weeks including bank holidays)
• Benenden Healthcare offering diagnosis, treatment, 24/7 GP and mental health advice lines, discounts etc. or Cash plan giving cash back for day to day healthcare such as optical or dental costs
• Opportunities for flexible working
• Family friendly policies
• Fabulous subsidised on-site café
• Pension scheme and opportunity to continue NHS pension for clinical staff
• Free Will writing service

Find out more

If you would like to find out more information, please contact:

Matt Tudor, Recruitment Co-ordinator on 01905 763963 or email [e-mail]