Café & Catering Assistant*

Company: Plumpton College
Closing Date: 05-01-2025
Location: Plumpton, Lewes BN7 3AE
Salary: Brighton Living Wage
Hours: 39 per week

Description

Join Our Team as a Café & Catering Assistant!

Do you have a passion for great food and top-notch service? Are you a dynamic, hardworking individual who thrives in a fast-paced environment? If so, we have the perfect opportunity for you!

We are looking to recruit an experienced Café & Catering Assistant to support our in-house catering team in delivering an outstanding catering service to our students and staff. This will include our events and hospitality services. Our state of the art AgriFood centre has space for conference’s and events catering up to 500 persons. The successful applicant will assist in the daily running of our college dining room services for our day and residential students as well as the Graze Cafe, which is open for HE students, staff, and external visitors. This is an exciting time to join the College as we grow our catering business to adapt to the needs of our students and growth in our commercial activities in conferences and events.

What You'll Do

As part of our in-house catering team, you’ll assist with the day-to-day operations of the College's dining room and café outlets, ensuring top-quality catering services for students, staff, and visitors. You’ll also help with internal events and functions, making every occasion a success.

Serve meals and manage catering requirements across various outlets.
Maintain high standards of hygiene in kitchen and customer areas.
Follow cleaning schedules and food hygiene regulations.
Assist in managing stock, minimizing wastage, and ensuring compliance with portion control.
Provide flexible support for events, including weekends and evenings when required.

What We're Looking For

Passion for food: You love creating delicious dishes and providing excellent customer service.
Experience: Minimum 2 years in a similar catering role.
Skills: Strong teamwork, customer service skills, and the ability to work under pressure.
Qualifications: A current Food Hygiene Certificate and a full UK driver’s license.
Personality: Outgoing, approachable, and adaptable.

Why Join Us?

As well as a competitive salary, you can also look forward to a great range of benefits including: up to 26 days annual leave plus bank holidays (pro rata), and up to 5 efficiency days at Christmas; membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme; comprehensive CPD; TOTUM card; Employee Assistance Programme; free onsite parking; discounted Plumpton wine; staff discounts on Plumpton courses; free eye tests; cycle to work scheme; and free use of the onsite gym.

We are served by an extensive bus network, visiting numerous towns in East and West Sussex. Successful candidates would be welcome to take advantage of this free of charge, shifts permitting.

With over 3,000 students, excellent resources, and a drive for continuous improvement, Plumpton College is actively seeking staff who want to make a difference and be part of this exciting phase of our development. At Plumpton College we are Ambitious & Progressive, Enterprising, Professional, Supportive and Passionate about everything we do – if you share these values and would like to be part of our growing team then we’d like to hear from you.

We reserve the right to call candidates to interview/withdraw this vacancy at any time if there is a good level of response. Therefore, we recommend you submit your application as soon as possible.

Plumpton College is committed to the promotion of equal opportunities and is dedicated to pursuing non-discriminatory policies and practices and eliminating unfair discrimination on any basis.

Plumpton is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of learners and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.