Catering Assistant - Term Time Only + 1 week (28 hours P/W)

Catering Assistant - Term Time Only + 1 Week (28 Hours P/W)

• Application Deadline: 17 October 2025

Department: Bistro

• Employment Type: Permanent - Part Time

Location: Middleton

• Compensation: £14,715 per annum ie £23,650 pro rata per annum

Description

To operate within the catering outlets preparing and serving a range of food and drink items to customers in a clean, tidy hygienic and safe environment 

Key Responsibilities

•  To provide excellent customer service in all aspects of the department, commercially and educationally.
• To ensure prompt & efficient throughput of customers at peaks times, to meet the service standards agreement and reduce customer queuing.
•  To provide a polite, courteous and friendly service to all customers. 
• To ensure clean & immaculate personal appearance at all times. 
• To prepare and sell a range of beverages, and food products.
• To restock all produce, including vending machines, and to comply with Safer Food, Better Business (SFBB) requirements.
• Cash handling.
•  Maintaining a safe & secure hygienic environment to comply with legislation.
•  To be proactive in Food storage, Stock rotating and Stock taking to comply with legislation.
• To support tutors, and assist with supervising and coaching students, who are undertaking work experience within the commercial catering outlets.
•  To ensure accurate portion control, quality & counter service is standardised and delivered at all times
•  To undertake regular cleaning of all equipment and work areas within the catering outlets.
•  To facilitate any hospitality requirements and events. 
•  To work on extra college activity days, as listed under the special working condition section, and/or as scheduled by your line manager. 
•  To ensure continuous professional development and improvement of skills and professional knowledge.
•   To effectively and efficiently use all equipment and products to minimise waste in order to create an efficient working environment.
•  To build and maintain effective team working relationships.
•   To promote and adopt greener working practices to support college environmental policy and sustainability.
•  To develop IT skills, engage with online training and refresh understanding of college policy and procedures, as required. 
• To undertake any other duties of a similar level of responsibility that are commensurate with the role, as may be required.
• All staff are responsible for:

Children & Vulnerable Adults: safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults Equipment & Materials: the furniture, equipment and consumable goods used in relation to their work

Health / Safety / Welfare: the health and safety and welfare of all employees, students and visitors under their control in accordance with Hopwood Hall College’s safety policy statements Equal Opportunities: performing their duties in accordance with Hopwood Hall College’s Single Equality Schem

• Revisions and updates
• This role description will be reviewed and amended on an on-going basis in line with organisational needs, with consultation with trade unions where required
• “The College supports the Skills for Life agenda and recognises the importance of all adults having functional literacy and numeracy whatever their role.  All staff are therefore given the support to gain a level 2 qualification in literacy and / or numeracy if they do not already have one and all teaching staff are expected to promote the basic skills of their learners within their subjects.”

Person Profile

Skills, Knowledge And Expertise

Qualifications

• Essential Criteria 
• Level 2 Hygiene Certificate

Desirable Criteria

• Level 2 Customer service Qualification
• Level 2 hospitality Qualification
• How Identified: Application

Experience

• Essential Criteria
• Customer service and hospitality in the commercial outlets
• The ability to clean to a high standard with experience of cleaning catering establishments

Desirable Criteria

• Experience of cooking in a commercial outlet
• How Identified: Application/Interview
• Specialist Knowledge

Desirable Criteria

• Knowledge of health & Safety
• How Identified: Application/Interview
• IT Skills

Essential Criteria

• Basic IT Skills 
• How Identified: Application/Interview#

Competencies

• Read this criteria in conjunction with the College Competency Framework – available on the intranet/internet.