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Catering Assistant

Employer
KINGS COLLEGE LONDON
Location
London (Central), London (Greater) (GB)
Salary
£20,838 to £21,712 per annum, including London Weighting Allowance
Closing date
6 Feb 2022

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Job Type
Professional Services, Estates & Facilities / Facilities Management
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time
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Job description

If you want to work in a friendly, fun environment where you’re really valued for your contribution then we may have the job for you. 

Kings Food the internal catering department of Kings College London are looking to recruit a catering assistant to work at our Denmark Hill campus at the Western Education Centre.  

As a catering assistant you will be involved with all aspects of the catering service including basic food preparation, food service, till operation, barista coffee making, food hygiene and other duties associated with the running of the Colleges retail units. 

The ideal candidate will be: 

A good team player 

Have a passion and commitment to provide good customer service 

Have a flexible and positive approach 

Have excellent communication skills 

Understand food safety and hygiene regulations. 

The position is offer on a working five out of seven days basis and will involve working evenings and weekends. 

 

This post will be offered on an indefinite contract   

This is a full-time  post -

 

Key responsibilities

  • Assist with the service of meals in the restaurants, mobile units, and coffee shops  
  • Maintain high levels of hygiene and copply with all food hygiene regulations 
  • Display all food and beverages in a neat, appealing and safe way 
  • Stock retail display units and replenish as required 
  • Operate a till and maintain accurate receipting of all payments  
  • Actively promote and sell the catering services to customers 
  • Respond to requests for information from customers 
  • Keep servery and retails areas tidy and clean 

 

The above list of responsibilities may not be exhaustive, and the post holder will be required to undertake such tasks and responsibilities as may reasonably be expected within the scope and grading of the post.  

Skills, knowledge, and experience 

Essential criteria 

  1. Educated to GCSE standard or equivalent 
  2. Experience of working in a catering environment 
  3. Understanding of all relevant health, hygiene, and safety regulations 
  4. Good written and oral communication 
  5. Experience of providing a service to customers 
  6. To be numerate  
  7. Experience of operating a till and taking payments 
  8. Sales and customer care experience 
  9. Selling skills 
  10. Able to work flexible hours including evenings and weekend 

Desirable criteria 

  1. NVQ Level 1 or equivalent catering qualification 
  2. Hold a current food handlers Certificate 

Company

King's College London is one of the top 20 universities in the world and among the oldest in England. King's has more than 27,600 students (of whom nearly 10,500 are graduate students) from some 150 countries worldwide, and some 6,800 staff.

King's has an outstanding reputation for world-class teaching and cutting-edge research. In the 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF) King’s was ranked 6th nationally in the ‘power’ ranking, which takes into account both the quality and quantity of research activity, and 7th for quality according to Times Higher Education rankings. Eighty-four per cent of research at King’s was deemed ‘world-leading’ or ‘internationally excellent’ (3* and 4*). The university is in the top seven UK universities for research earnings and has an overall annual income of more than £684 million.

King's has a particularly distinguished reputation in the humanities, law, the sciences (including a wide range of health areas such as psychiatry, medicine, nursing and dentistry) and social sciences including international affairs. It has played a major role in many of the advances that have shaped modern life, such as the discovery of the structure of DNA and research that led to the development of radio, television, mobile phones and radar.

King's College London and Guy's and St Thomas', King's College Hospital and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trusts are part of King's Health Partners. King's Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre (AHSC) is a pioneering global collaboration between one of the world's leading research-led universities and three of London's most successful NHS Foundation Trusts, including leading teaching hospitals and comprehensive mental health services. For more information, visit: www.kingshealthpartners.org.

King’s £600 million campaign, World questions|KING’s answers, has delivered huge global impact in areas where King’s has particular expertise. Philanthropic support has funded new research to save young lives at Evelina London Children’s Hospital; established the King’s Dickson Poon School of Law as a worldwide leader in transnational law; built a new Cancer Centre at Guy’s Hospital; allowed unique collaboration between leading neuroscientists to fast-track new treatments for Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, motor neurone disease, depression and schizophrenia at the new Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute; created the Cicely Saunders Institute: the first academic institution in the world dedicated to palliative care, and supported the King’s Sierra Leone Partnership in the Ebola crisis. Donations provide over 300 of the most promising students with scholarships and bursaries each year. More information about the campaign is available at www.kcl.ac.uk/kingsanswers.

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KINGS COLLEGE LONDON
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+(44)02078365454
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WC2R 2LS
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