Catering Assistant

**Role**:Catering Assistant

**Location**:Tresham College - Corby Campus

**Salary/Benefits**: Salary from £23,861 (Pro-Rata) DOE and Qualifications, People’s pension, Retail and Leisure Discounts, excellent professional and personal development opportunities, accessing college courses.

**Hours/Weeks**:24hrs per week - 08.00 - 14.00 Monday, Wednesday and Friday - 3 hours per day on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

**Contract Type**: Permanent - Term Time

**About the role**:
We are currently seeking a Catering Assistant to join our Bedford College Services department at The Bedford College group**.**

As a Catering Assistant, you play an important role in the success of our students through:

- Providing support and assistance to customers and other staff members.
- Assisting in the maintenance of the kitchen and Restaurant facilities and ensuring serviceability and security of tools and equipment, and ensuring Health and Safety requirements are met.
- Presenting a professional image to all customers and presentation and serving of food to an agreed standard.
- Carrying out simple preparation of foods, including vegetables, salads, sandwiches, sauces, pre mixes, frozen and dehydrated products and assisting the Chef or Kitchen Supervisor in cooking foods by frying, boiling, steaming, using all large and small kitchen equipment provided.
- Assisting with the setting up of the service counter, serve food and cleaning of the counter afterwards.
- Using coffee machines & high-speed ovens
- Assisting in the serving of meals to clients, staff and others in a courteous and professional manner.
- Assisting in the preparation and serving of beverages to staff, clients and others.
- To provide assistance with special function catering and any other catering services undertaken by the kitchen.
- To wash crockery, cutlery, cooking and serving utensils and kitchen equipment, clean floors, walls, and surfaces and dining area.
- To perform in depth cleaning tasks on cleaning days.
- To assist in stock taking and storage of stock, including checking deliveries. To promote our excellent reputation and carry out our business appropriately and professionally at all times
- To develop additional sales through participation of theme days and other promotions.
- To store and replace clean utensils and crockery.
- To maintain and clean the food and equipment store, as directed.
- To sweep and clean the floors, using correct chemicals and slippery floor notices.
- To ensure that all financial transactions are in accordance with the financial regulations and entries are properly recorded as directed by your manager
- To be punctual in attendance.
- To attend Training and Development courses as required.

**About you**:

- Knowledge of collecting monies through a cash register & PDQ machine
- Level 2 Food Hygiene Certificate or equivalent
- Knowledge of Health & Safety procedures in catering environment
- Knowledge of food preparation and cooking skills
- Ability to work in a fast pace environment
- Able to understand and follow instructions
- Ability to work effectively as a member of a team
- Flexibility approach to work and working times.
- Access to own transport, with the ability to travel to events and various sites

**Interviews to be held**:30 January 2025
- **Valuing Teamwork** - We are one team who by working together can achieve great things, respecting the opinion and valuing the contribution each of us makes.
- ** Improving Continuously** - We challenge ourselves to always do better by trying new things, sharing knowledge, reflecting on practice and learning from others.
- ** Student Centred** - At our heart is always doing what is best for our students. We consider students in all of our decision making to create positive outcomes and memorable experiences for every student.
- ** Inclusive** - We celebrate differences and diversity, recognising that we can learn from each other.
- ** Open and Caring** - We care about the wellbeing of our staff, our students, our community and wider society, creating an environment built on trust where we listen, engage with and support each other.
- ** Nurturing Education Excellence**:

- We promote educational excellence by delivering programmes that challenge our students to achieve their ambitions.

**About Bedford College Services (BCS)**

BCS is A multi-faceted enterprise that operates across the leisure, hospitality, catering, theatre and facilities hire sectors.

The purpose of BCS is to provide a suite of commercial services to the staff and students of The Bedford College Group and to the wider community. Always striving to provide the highest quality of product and services and endeavouring to ensure that its supply chain complies with modern day thinking of sustainability, carbon emissions and modern slavery. BCS will bid for external contracts to provide those services, exploiting its management skills and capacity. Additionally BCS works to enrich student and staff experience with