Event Hospitality Assistant

Wigan Council; United States; Remote; USD 31,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

Wigan Council is seeking a hands-on catering team member to join the Events & Hospitality Team across the Borough’s leisure facilities. You will help manage the kitchen and its resources to deliver high-quality catering for a wide range of events, and handle cash using a POS system with cash reconciliation.

You will work flexibly, plan and manage your time efficiently with strong organisational and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Work across leisure facilities to support catering operations.
• Handle cash, operate POS, and reconcile takings.
• Ensure compliance with health and safety, COSHH and manual handling.

Job description

As part of the Events & Hospitality Team, you will work within the various leisure facilities across the Borough and on a wide range of other event locations. The main duties will to be part of the catering staff and operations and manage the kitchen and its resources to ensure a quality service is provided for the complete running of the events catering services across our portfolio. You will be handling cash, using a POS system and cash reconciliation. You will be compliant with health and safety, food safety, control of substances hazardous to health (COSHH) and manual handling.

The ideal person for this role needs to be able to plan, work and manage their time efficient and effectively demonstrating accurate and concise work. You must have good organisational, verbal and written communication skills and use your own initiative and work flexible as part of a team. You will have great customer service skills to deal with a range of people and will always promote a professional image, which is representative of the service. You will be a person who is passionate about events and the role and dedicated to providing the best service possible to customers, staff and visitors to the leisure centre and other event locations., To be appointed to this role you must be able to prove your right to work in the UK, and you must maintain a valid (active) right to work. Please note, at present we are not a licenced sponsor. Prove your right to work to an employer: Overview - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) Prove your right to work to an employer

The Culture & Event Team as part of Progress with Unity, are dedicated to celebrating our unique culture, sport and heritage through events, exhibitions and media and our staff are fundamental to achieving our goals.

The Progress with Unity plan is a place movement for change for the next decade, bringing a new era for Wigan Borough. It draws on the strengths of our individual organisations, recognising that together we can achieve more for our communities by delivering on our 2 place missions; create fair opportunities for all children, families, residents and businesses and make our towns and neighbourhoods flourish for those who live and work in them.

Salary: Grade 3, £26,427 per annum. £13.69 per hour 1 hour per week

This role operates on an annualised hours contract. The hours will need to be worked flexibly to meet service needs. You may be required to work additional hours.

We're on a journey to build a workforce reflective of our Borough.

We are committed to fostering diverse teams where everybody can bring their authentic selves to work and feel that they belong. If you want to work for a Council where everybody is encouraged to meet their full potential and make a difference in our neighbourhoods, we would love to hear from you!