Catering Assistant

5 days ago

Cambridge, United Kingdom Cambridge University Press & Assessment Full time

**Salary**:

- £21,900 - £25,950

**Location**:

- Cambridge

**Country**:

- UK

**Business Unit**:

- Operations

**Vacancy Type**:

- Permanent

**Closing Date**:

- 15 June 2025

**Meet the recruiter**:

- Ian Brooks

**Salary**: £21,900-£25,950 per annum

Location: Cambridge, Whittlesford (on occasion) - On site, with availability required across all shift patterns (07:00-14:30, 07:30-15:00, 08:00-15:30, 09:00-16:30)

Contract: Full time, permanent (35 hours per week)

**Are you passionate about great food and even better service? Join our vibrant Catering team and help deliver a high-quality hospitality experience to our staff and visitors.**

We are Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a world-leading academic publisher and assessment organisation and a proud part of the University of Cambridge.

**About the role**

As a Catering Assistant, you'll be at the heart of our hospitality service
- preparing food, maintaining hygiene standards, and ensuring every customer interaction is a positive one.

This is a hands-on, customer facing role where no two days are the same. You'll work across our catering areas and events, supporting a team that's known for its warmth, professionalism, and dedication to excellence.

**Please note**: To be considered, you must be available to work across all shift patterns listed above.

**Responsibilities Include**:

- Delivering excellent customer service and high-quality food presentation.
- Supporting food preparation and maintaining hygiene and cleanliness standards.
- Operating tills and cashless systems.
- Assisting with hospitality events and ensuring consistency across all catering services.
- Complying with food safety, health and safety, and internal policies.

**About you**

As a Catering Assistant, you'll be a team player with a positive, can-do attitude and a genuine passion for customer service. Ideally, you'll have:

- Experience in a high-volume catering or hospitality environment
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills
- A Level 2 Food hygiene qualification (or willingness to obtain within 1 month)
- Good understanding of food safety standards

If you would like to know more about this opportunity and what will make you successful, please see the full job description attached to the bottom of this vacancy on our careers site.

**Rewards and benefits**

We will support you to be at your best in work and to live well outside of it. In addition to competitive salaries, we offer a world-class, flexible rewards package, featuring family-friendly and planet-friendly benefits including:

- 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- Private medical and Permanent Health Insurance
- Discretionary annual bonus
- Group personal pension scheme
- Life assurance up to 4 x annual salary
- Green travel schemes
- Please note, Cambridge University Press & Assessment is unable to sponsor this role under the Skilled Worker Visa route as it does not meet the minimum skill requirements._

**Why join us**
- Joining us is your opportunity to pursue potential. You'll belong to a collaborative team that's exploring new and better ways to serve students, teachers and researchers across the globe - for the benefit of individuals, society and the world. Sharing our mission will inspire your own growth, development and progress, in an environment which embraces difference, change and aspiration. _

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