Catering Assistant

Deliver Quality, Serve Excellence, Brighten Days - Join us as Catering Assistant EKC Group are seeking a Catering Assistant to join their commercial team at Ashford college. As a Catering Assistant you will undertake Cashier duties, preparation of Barista Coffee, cooking and cleaning within the Division. You will be part of small team to deliver an outstanding food experience to our students and staff on site. As a Catering Assistant you will be responsible for all general catering tasks including customer service, maintaining stock levels, cleaning, cashier duties, preparing and serving hot drinks and food.

We are seeking to appoint a well organised and confident individual to our catering team. The successful candidate will have relevant practical industrial experience e.g Cooking, customer service, familiar with professional coffee making machines, Cash handling, kitchen cleaning, chemical handling, general pot wash duties. You will also have good customer service skills and experience of maintaining a clean and safe working environment. The ideal candidate will hold a Health & Safety qualification related to relevant area of work or equivalent e.g. Basic Food Hygiene and have basic IT Skills. No need to spend time updating your CV, just click apply and complete our short application form. You can save your progress as you go, and we'll review all applications and get back to all candidates after the closing date.

Outstanding Ofsted Provider East Kent Colleges Group is an Ofsted Outstanding rated provider. It is proud to be the first General Further Education college organisation in the country to have received the Outstanding grade against each of the strands under the new Ofsted inspection framework. An inclusive provider, our colleagues place our students and the communities we serve at the heart of everything they do across EKC Group and this is illustrated in our 'Strong' skills grading by Ofsted. Commitment to Safeguarding We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and we ensure that all staff are aware of their responsibilities for upholding these principles. As a designated establishment, we are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore have an obligation to carry out checks to ensure that staff are suitable to work with children and vulnerable adults. These checks include conviction/caution self-declaration, Enhanced DBS check and obtaining sufficient referencing.

Salary: £8,014 per annum (includes holiday pay) Contract: Term time only 35 weeks per year Hours per week: 15 Working Pattern: 3 hours per day 5 days a week Alongside our priority of excellent student experience, we also focus highly on our employees! Here are just some of our benefits when working for the East Kent Colleges Group:

• Generous and Consistent Holiday Pattern
• Flexible Personal Leave
• Exclusive Discounts & Perks
• Wellbeing and Health Support
• Competitive Pension Scheme