Campus Services - Catering

Ayr Campus

Grade 1: £19,893 per annum

Full Time: 35 hours per week, Permanent

A fantastic opportunity has come up to join the University of the West of Scotland as a Food Service Assistant at the Ayr Campus

The team provide a service for staff, students and visitors to the campus, with a retail offering in the coffee shop and a variety of hot and cold grab and go meals available in the main dining area. In addition to this, the department caters for internal and external meetings and private dining.

Duties will include serving customers across our catering outlets, ensuring areas are well stocked and presented, some basic food preparation, maintaining standards of cleanliness and assisting with our internal hospitality provision. 

The ideal candidate will be able to demonstrate high standards of customer service. Previous experience working in a busy customer service orientated catering or retail environment is desired, and a good knowledge of hospitality and events and barista skills would be an advantage.

Over and above a competitive salary, wider UWS staff benefits include:

• 24 days of annual leave with an additional 12 University/Public Holidays per annum No split shifts Operating predominantly day time shifts across a Monday to Friday shift pattern with some additional evening and weekend work by arrangement Opportunities to earn overtime on an ad hoc basis by supporting events and other commercial activity

Further information, including details of how to apply are available at https://jobs.uws.ac.uk/

Interview date: Thursday 16^th February 2023

The University reserves the right to shorten/extend the closing date of any position where a high/low volume of suitable applications are received. Therefore, if you are interested in this role, an early application would be encouraged.

UWS is committed to equality and diversity and welcomes applications from underrepresented groups.

UWS is a “Disability Confident” employer.

University of the West of Scotland is a registered Scottish charity, no. SC002520