Casual Kitchen Assistant

Term Time / 10 Hours Per Week / Permanent

Casual

Our City Catering service is committed to ensuring that school children and students are provided with a healthy balanced meal every mealtime. Each kitchen is made up of a dedicated team who work together to provide hot and cold meals and ensure that food has been served in a clean and safe environment. Join our welcoming and friendly service to assist in our busy school kitchens.

Hours and working location will be agreed at interview stages.

What you’ll be doing

You’ll become part of a team that ensures that children and students are provided with a healthy balanced meal following all dietary guidelines and food safety legislation. On a day-to-day basis you’ll liaise with either the Senior Dining Room Assistant in a dining centre or a Unit Catering Manager in a Production kitchen and work with them to make meals. You’ll assist with all aspects of preparation, cooking of food and serving of a daily meal to school children, students and teaching staff. You’ll maintain high standards of hygiene and cleanliness in the preparation and service areas, whilst paying attention to health and safety regulations. Setting up dining room and carrying out general cleaning duties including washing dishes, keeping all work areas clean and tidy is a daily task of this busy role.

What you’ll need

It doesn’t matter if you’ve never worked as a Kitchen Assistant before. What does matter to us the most, is taking pride in what you do and a willingness to learn. You’ll be reliable, punctual, diligent, and enthusiastic and be able to work with minimal supervision at times. Along with a willing attitude to promote and ensure the good reputation of the school and be a helpful member of the catering team. You’ll be approachable and personable, and happy to speak with children, students and teaching staff, all whilst proving great customer service to all those who come into contact with the catering team. You’ll work flexibly and share tasks with your colleagues, particularly during busy periods where you will be required to pitch in and be supportive of the rest of the team.

Due to the nature of this role, it is subject to an Enhanced DBS check.

What we can offer you

As well as the satisfaction of helping to improve thousands of lives across Leicester, you can look forward to a work environment that encourages a healthy work/life balance. You’ll enjoy generous annual leave, membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme and the option of flexible working. We’ll also give you the chance to develop your skills and expertise with a variety of training and development opportunities. In addition, you can choose from a number of flexible benefits, discounts on city buses and trains. For an illustrative value of your benefits package, take a look at our benefits calculator.

Join us

We’re committed to recruiting a diverse and highly talented workforce as we continue to build a council that is fitting and representative of our great city. That’s why we’ve designed our recruitment process to put you at your ease, make you feel welcome and bring the best out of you. We’ll do all we can to make our recruitment process as fair as possible. To help you with your application, take a look at the ‘our approach to recruitment’ page.

If you’d like to have a chat before applying, feel free to contact Ann Merrick via email in the first instance ann.merrick@leicester.gov.uk

Interviews/Assessments will take place on Wednesday 8th March 2023.