General Catering Assistant - Westminster, United Kingdom - House of Lords

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Salary:

- £24,400
Job grade:

• Other
• HL3
  Contract type:
• Permanent
  Business area:
• Food & Beverage
  Type of role:
• Other

Working pattern:

• Fulltime
  Number of jobs available:
• 1Contents

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Location

• WestminsterAbout the job

Job summary:

We are looking for a General Catering Assistant to join our Catering and Retail Services Office at House of Lords.

This is a position where you provide the highest standard of food service and maintain the highest standard of cleanliness and tidiness, according to current health and food hygiene legislation, at all times.

This is an opportunity to work onsite at Parliament


Job description:


You'll be accountable for/to:

• Serving customers and waiting staff with the correct food and beverage items as requested, exercising portion control and work closely with Line manager to achieve mínimal wastage.
• Reacting quickly, efficiently and courteously to customer needs, and to the request of managers, displaying a high standard of customer care.
• To keep their areas of responsibility clean and tidy at all times & ensure that food production and storage areas, service counters, public & kitchen areas are kept hygienically clean.
• Cashier duties in the restaurant as required.
• Follow cleaning rotas as directed, clean tables, chairs, display counters and fridges as required and descale coffee machines, soup kettles as directed.
• Ensure adequate stock of service utensils, disposable packaging, crockery, and replenish food supplies by requisitions from stores as required.
• Clear dirty crockery, cutlery etc from public areas.
• Sweep & mop floors, clear spillages, disposal of rubbish and general waste into designated areas.

Person specification:


What we're looking for:

• Strong and confident communicator.
• Knowledge of a café style restaurant.
• Excellent customer service skills.
• Good knowledge of food hygiene, Health, and Safety regulations.

Benefits:


What you'll get in return:

• 30 days annual leave (increasing to 35 after one years' service).
• Generous pension scheme.
• Discounts from wellknown brands and retailers.
• Parliamentary health and wellbeing programme.
• The opportunity to witness history in the making

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Selection process details:

• Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment

Security:

• See our vetting charter (opens in a new window).
• People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements:

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals

- nationals of the Republic of Ireland
- nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
- nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)

• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)
Working for the Civil Service:

• The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.
• We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).
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