Food Services Assistant

3 days ago


Paisley, United Kingdom University of the West Scotland Full time

**Salary**

Grade 1: £23,414 per annum

**Contractual hours**

35

**Basis**

Full Time

**Region**

Central

**Job category/type**

Professional Services

**Date posted**

25/07/2025

**Job reference**

REQ000321

**Campus Services**

**Permanent**

**THE POST**- REQ000321 -**Food Services Assistant**

The University of West of Scotland are recruiting for a Food Services Assistant to join the Campus Services Team at our Paisley Campus.

As a Food Services Assistant your core responsibility will be to provide exceptional customer service with a friendly and professional approach within the catering service through-out the University.

The postholder will be required to organise and prioritise their own work schedule effectively on a day-to-day basis taking ownership of their own product area which can include food preparation, production and service at coffee shops, food outlets, hospitality functions and the Student Union Bar area.
- Experience of working in a busy customer service orientated catering environment
- Ability to work on own initiative as well as effectively working as part of a team
- Friendly and approachable with strong customer focus
- Willingness to be flexible and adapt to changing priorities

**ABOUT US**

The University of the West of Scotland is one of Scotland’s largest and most dynamic modern universities. Our reach across the country, together with our London campus, means that UWS is a significant force in global knowledge creation, innovation, and a leading provider of undergraduate, postgraduate and research degree education. Our degrees provide students with a transformational experience; equipping them with highly sought-after graduate skills that set them up for global success in world-leading sectors, industries and businesses.

UWS is officially ranked by Times Higher Education in the top 200 universities worldwide under 50 years old (2023 Young University Rankings).

Our professional services teams are the backbone of UWS, providing robust and innovative solutions to support the vast range of work across learning and teaching, and research and innovation. You will join a supportive and dedicated team, playing a key role in a range of work that will help drive forward our ambition to deliver world-leading research, and graduates who will design, shape and build a new future.

**We offer our staff a caring and supportive environment, across five campuses, and a competitive benefits package which includes**:
- **24 days of annual leave, plus a further 12 days for public/university holidays**:

- **An additional days leave on your birthday**:

- **Defined benefit contribution pension scheme (currently 19.3%), including death in service benefits upon joining the scheme.**:

- **A flexible approach to working pattern and work-life balance**:

- **Employee discount scheme across 3,500 retailers**:

- **Fitness facilities across our campuses**:

- **Access to a range of health and wellbeing resources, including occupational health, physiotherapy and access to our Employee Assistance Programme**:

- **Professional, career and research development opportunities.**

**Closing Date: Friday 8th August 2025**

**Interview Date: week commencing Monday 25th August 2025**

Please note that the appointment will be made on the first point of the salary scale (unless by exception, where evidence would need to be provided).

UWS are committed signatories to the Armed Forces Covenant.

UWS is a “Disability Confident” employer.

University of the West of Scotland is a registered Scottish charity, no. SC002520



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