Catering Assistant

GLL is looking for Catering Assistants to join the team at the Palmer Park Leisure Centre and Stadium.

The catering team pride themselves on delivering an effective and efficient café service with high levels of quality service by way of preparation, serving and delivery of fresh food and drinks, so you’ll need to be just as passionate as they are. You’ll ensure the café environment maintains hygiene and cleanliness standards in line with strict Health and Safety requirements.

Ideally, you’ll have previous experience working as a Catering Assistant with good customer care skills. You’ll have a Food Hygiene certificate and knowledge of COSHH (Control of Substance Hazardous to Health).

**What you’ll do**:

- Maintain a positive image of the venue to customers and the public at all times
- Deliver excellent customer experience at all times
- Prepare and sell drinks and food as required
- Engage with customers to ensure customer satisfaction
- Actively contribute to the development of the service
- Assist the manger on duty in the monitoring process against the set standards i.e. noise levels and cleanliness
- Ensure the security and maintenance of the bar area and the contents within.
- Prepare areas and equipment required and ensure the area and all its facilities are kept clean and presentable at all times
- Adhere to all health and safety requirements, including all procedures in relation to fire prevention, licences, food, COSHH, heating, ventilation, energy management and conservation.
- To undertake cash handling and banking within the stipulated financial procedures.

**What you need**:

- A team player
- Excellent customer service skills
- Ability to undertake cleaning and maintenance tasks
- Ability to work independently
- Cash handling experience
- Previous events experience a bonus but not essential
- Able to work unsocial hours.
- Ability to work flexible shift patterns e.g. morning shifts, evening shifts and weekends.

As a leader within the leisure industry we can also offer scope to progress your career, and job variety like nowhere else.

**In return, you will get**:

- Industry leading rates of pay
- Discounted membership at our leisure centres
- Discounts across thousands of retailers (GLL Extras)
- 25% off Red Letter Days
- 25% off Buy A Gift
- 20% off GLL spa experience treatments and associated products
- The opportunity to join the GLL Society and have a say in how we are run plus associated social events
- Health assurance
- Career pathways, professional development are just the start. To ensure you stay at the top of your game, we provide training with practical and theory elements too.

**About GLL**:
As the UK’s largest leisure operator and charitable social enterprise, we offer a range of careers for everyone in our local communities. We manage over 400 facilities across England, Wales and Northern Ireland, including public sport and leisure centres, elite sporting venues, libraries and children’s centres.

Our people are from the communities we serve and help us make real changes in their local area.

To make sure we’re having a positive impact on our people, we also offer some flexible and part-time working options so you can make sure your new job works for you.

So whether your ambitions lie in sport and leisure, events & catering, health & beauty, corporate support or working with children, you’ll be able to find your ideal new job at GLL.

Passionate about seeing our communities thrive, we invest back into our facilities, projects and people and are Investors in People Silver Award employer.
- We are an inclusive employer. We seek and welcome diversity in our teams._