Catering Assistant
A great new opportunity at City College Peterborough – Study Programmes has arisen for a Catering Assistant to join our catering team dedicated to providing a clean, healthy, and friendly environment during lunch service. You'll support effective service delivery by preparing nutritious food options, assisting with the preparation, presentation of buffets for College events and functions, maintaining high hygiene standards, and offering warm, learner-focused customer service.
Attention to detail and customer service is crucial to our success; therefore, strong interpersonal skills are required for this post as the College and Service continues to expand quality provision and meet targets. The ability to work as part of a team and to be self-motivating is essential.
This is a demanding and challenging post, playing a key part in the continuing success, development and expansion of the Study Skills Programme. You should be someone who understands the importance of providing an effective and efficient catering service to our learners, staff and visitors, including supporting buffet and hospitality requirements for meetings, events and special occasions. You will understand the importance of providing a clean, friendly and healthy environment in which we all operate.
You will be committed, clear-sighted, and able to meet challenges head-on, with the ability to identify improved ways of working and to develop these opportunities. You will have a friendly and outgoing personality and will possess the ability to interact with people at all levels. A forward thinker, with a positive "can do", "will do" approach, together with the ability to work with, and motivate others, is essential.
Our Commitments
We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer, dedicated to fostering diversity, advancing equity, and building an inclusive workplace for everyone. We welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds and particularly encourage those from underrepresented groups, including disabled people, care leavers, and individuals from minority ethnic communities. Your unique perspectives and experiences are encouraged and valued and will play a vital role in our success.
We are committed to making our recruitment process as accessible as possible. If you are a person who has or considers yourself to have a disability and you require reasonable adjustments to the application or interview process, please contact pccrecruitment@peterborough.gov.uk.
Appointment to this post will be subject to the outcome of an Enhanced Disclosure obtained through the Disclosure and Barring Service. The Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
City College Peterborough is committed to Equality and Diversity and to ensuring the safeguarding of learners and carries out appropriate checks to ensure the suitability of staff working with children, young people and vulnerable adults
If you've already applied and completed the recruitment process for this position within the last three months, there's no need to reapply. We really appreciate your interest and thank you for considering us.
DocumentsSalary range
- £24,413 - £24,796 per year