Catering Assistant

Overview

Working for us, you will have the opportunity to work in a busy and exciting environment. You will be responsible for assisting our Cook in preparing nutritious and appetising meals whilst ensuring compliance with all aspects of Food Hygiene and Health and Safety. Other duties will include the setting up and clearing away of tables and general cleaning duties. Salary: £25,390.

This post is for 26.25 hours per week / 5.25 hours per day. Hourly rate is £13.16. Working hours are Monday to Friday, term time only (38 weeks). We adopt an 'anonymous recruitment' approach to shortlisting. Recruiting managers will not have access to personal information, including your name and contact details, until a shortlisting decision has been made. We are committed to recruiting, retaining, and developing a workforce that reflects the communities we serve.

Sharing your equality monitoring data allows us to assess the impact our recruitment and employment policies and practices have and gives us the opportunity to improve them where possible. Equality monitoring information is not accessible by recruiting managers at any stage.

• Assist the Cook in preparing nutritious and appetising meals while ensuring compliance with Food Hygiene and Health and Safety standards.
• Set up and clear away tables; general cleaning duties.

• The ability to build good relationships with adults and children based on mutual respect.
• Knowledge of basic food safety. This would be an advantage, but not essential as full training will be given.
• Good communication and people skills.
• The ability to work on their own and as part of a team.
• You will need: a positive attitude and the willingness to learn new skills.
• Flexibility and the willingness to assist with other catering duties.
• An Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check will be requested for this job.
• Welsh language level – verbal Level 2. You will need a basic level of conversational Welsh. Reasonable support can be provided on appointment to reach this level.

• Competitive salary
• Automatic enrolment into the Local Government Pension Scheme
• Generous annual leave entitlement with the option of purchasing additional annual leave
• Access to staff health and wellbeing support
• Personal development and career progression
• Staff discount schemes and other benefits e.g., cycle-to-work scheme
• Flexible working and family friendly policies