Admin & Catering Assistant Mon - Fri

An informal, co-educational independent day school in Golders Green, North London for students from reception to sixth form. Catering for 750 students and teachers. We offer a core feeding of snacks and lunch with some hospitality. This is a term-time only role working 42 weeks a year and operates Monday to Friday.

We currently have a fantastic opportunity for a Catering Assistant to join our established & friendly team at our prestigious contracts in London.

Role requirements (Task & Responsibilities):

• Prepare basic foods for sale/service, following good hygiene and safety practices and to the standards specified.
• Prepare all service areas for the day’s business, in line with specified standards and good hygiene, safety and customer service principles.
• Re-stock and replenish stocks and consumables as required during service periods, pre-empt customer needs and achieve optimum customer service delivery.
• Operate cleaning, dishwashing equipment ensuring all safety measures are adhered to. Properly clean and store equipment for food and beverage service & preparation.
• Complete all/any necessary cleaning/hygiene duties within storage, service and preparation areas in line with set methods and frequencies as may be detailed by the chef manager.
• Serve customers, clients, visitors and guests in line with set service standards and expectations.
• Prepare, set-up, deliver, serve, clear, clean and store away any food, beverages or equipment required for special functions, match teas and/or hospitality services.
• Empty, remove and store rubbish as required.
• Support CM with Print the labels per request, Fill HACCP for the hot and cold hold food records
• weekly bookwork, inputting of invoices, inputting sales data, typing menus

General Responsibilities:

• Ensure attendance to all staff meetings as required.
• Ensure that all policies and procedural requirements of both legislation and company are adhered to in order to promote a professional and flexible approach at all times.
• Ensure that the correct uniform is worn neatly and is clean and fresh at all times.
• Ensure any necessary checks are carried out in the service and associated areas for food temperatures, faults, maintenance requirements or equipment shortages.
• Carry out any other reasonable request of management

Key personal skills and attributes:

• A confident nature and the ability to communicate easily with others (including children) in a busy service environment, is essential.
• An effective team player with good listening skills, the ability to work on own initiative.
• Impeccable personal presentation, hygiene and behaviour towards others.
• Detail conscious and ability to be effective under pressure.
• The ability to be adaptable and flexible as necessary.
• Reliable, honest, loyal and able to demonstrate an open, attentive approach to customer service in a public environment.
• Willingness to learn new skills and take some responsibility.
• Ability to manage some moderately heavy lifting, carrying, pushing and pulling (of trolleys).
• Experience of working within an office environment processing invoices, updating stock sheets, in putting data, Experience with excel, word, office, an all-round team player, Organised with attention to detail

Knowledge / competencies:

• Ability to demonstrate reasonable / good understanding and use of verbal English.
• Ability to demonstrate reasonable / good standard of written English and reading skills.
• Similar experience of customer and / or food preparation environment is preferred

Benefits

• Wider wallet scheme (discounts at major retailers, restaurants, gyms etc).
• Free meals on duty
• Volunteers leave - up to one day per year.
• Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoptive leave.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Recommend a friend bonus.
• Unrivalled individual training and development.
• Well established apprenticeship programme.
• Team & company social events.
• Employee assistance programme.
• Workplace pension.
• Excellent career progression within a leading independent contract caterer.

About us

Thomas Franks is a founder led, fresh food catering business with a focus on excellence and service delivered with individuality, passion and style. We are unique in every approach and our clients, and our people are paramount to our daily success.

Disclaimer 

All applicants must be able to demonstrate that they have the Right to Work in the UK to be considered for this role.

An enhanced DBS, Identity & reference checks (covering the last five years) will form part of the selection process. As an organisation using the Disclosure Barring Service (DBS) Disclosure service to assess applicants' suitability for positions of trust, Thomas Franks Ltd complies fully with the DBS Code of Practice and undertakes to treat all applicants for positions fairly. We are committed to safeguarding the welfare of children and undertake not to discriminate unfairly against any subject of a Disclosure based on conviction or other information revealed. However, for any post in a school please be aware that any application is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and as such any criminal conviction, caution or bind-over must be declared.

Diversity and Inclusion at Thomas Franks

We actively encourage applications from candidates from diverse backgrounds and continue to develop a culture of growth and inclusion and would like to invite applications from groups who are currently under-represented, because we believe greater diversity leads to exceptional results and provides a better working life.