Café and Catering Assistant
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Job Title: Café and Catering Assistant
Location of work: Woodhatch Community Centre
Salary: £7,105 - £7,412 per annum
Basis: Permanent, Part time 10 hours per week
Are you someone who likes to support the community and would like to work with a team of energetic, dedicated staff and volunteers, who deliver a range of other activities, and services within our local communities? Then read on!
This is a great opportunity to join the dedicated and friendly community centre team in the role of casual cook.
The Cafe and Catering Assistant will be working in the Community Centres busy café in this varied role. Providing excellent customer service is central to the role, which involves serving customers, making drinks, working on the till, maintaining a high standard of hygiene and cleanliness in the café area, and Kitchen.
Responsibilities of role:
• To work with the centre’s manager to provide the catering offer, ensuring tasty, healthy, and varied meals are provided and served
• To help prepare and serve a range of cold meals, snack bar lunches, snacks, cakes and beverage.
• Liaise with kitchen staff, management, and customers to ensure the smooth running of the catering function, and deal with any customer concerns.
• Provide excellent service to all café and centre customers - taking their orders, answering questions, handling cash and card transactions, serving food and drinks, and clearing tables, in a friendly, polite and efficient manner.
• Maintain a calm, organised and professional approach at all times, including during busy periods.
• To maintain and clean the café area and all equipment including appliances in a clean, tidy and safe state.
• To clear tables and wash up (washing up is done by hand prior to sterilising), and to ensure that tea-towels, tablecloths etc. are laundered daily, working cooperatively with other staff and volunteers.
• To undertake all duties in compliance with Safer Food, Better Business food safety procedures and level 2 Food Heigan (Training will be provided if necessary.), To be responsible for relevant monitoring, evaluation and record keeping, including records required for compliance with Safer Food, Better Business food hygiene regulations.
Behaviours:
• You will be highly motivated and capable.
• Are capable of working well on your own and as be a supportive member of a wider team.
• Adaptable to the task in hand and willing to learn.
• You are confident to make process improvement suggestions where necessary.
Qualifications
• First Aid qualification
• Food hygiene qualification to level 2 or higher
Additional Information
For an informal discussion about the role, please call James Klahn, Community Centre Team Leader, on 01737 276330.
We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer, supporting the guaranteed interview scheme for disabled and ex-armed forces candidates, who meet the essential criteria for the role.
Closing date: Tuesday 7th April 2026 at 23:59
Interview date: to be confirmed
We understand that some applicants may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to assist with preparing their applications.
All submitted information—whether supported by AI or not—must accurately reflect the applicant’s own skills, experience, and qualifications.
Recruitment decisions will be based on how well applicants demonstrate these attributes during the interview and selection process.
Values and Behaviours
Our great working environment and the values and behaviours of every individual and team in the Council, help to evolve the culture of our organisation to become more commercial, innovative and embracing of change. Successful applicants to our career opportunities will be able to demonstrate they share the values and behaviours we seek in our organisation.
Local Government Reorganisation
Reigate and Banstead Borough Council is part of the government’s plans for Local Government Reorganisation (LGR) scheduled to take place in April 2027. This means the current two-tier system, where services are split between Surrey County Council and district and borough councils like Reigate, will be replaced with two unitary councils made up of East and West Surrey, which will handle all local services. Reigate and Banstead Borough Council will form part of the new East Surrey unitary authority.
Although this may lead to some uncertainty for anyone considering a role with us, this process will take some time and during that time we still need to provide services. When local government is reorganised, most staff will transfer to the new council(s) which may offer additional opportunities for career development and variety as part of a larger organisation.
Salary range
- £7,105 - £7,412 per year