Food Service Assistant
Job Description
Job title: Food Service Assistant
Company: Sodexo
Job description: As a Food Service Assistant at HMRC Nottingham, you’re a real people person with excellent communication skills, Mainly customer facing, You’ll interact with our clients and colleagues every day, improving quality of life for all that you meet. Join Sodexo and be part of something greater. You belong in a team where you can act with purpose and thrive in your own way.
What you’ll do:
- Clean and sanitize equipment and workstations
- Support any enquiries or requests within the food and beverage areas
- Serve and replenish food from counters and break down stations at the end of meal periods
- Interact with customers in the serving, retail, and dining areas
What you bring:
- Positive attitude, professionalism and respect for others
- Basic food-handling skills
- No previous experience required
What we offer:
Working with Sodexo is more than a job; it’s a chance to be part of something greater. You’ll belong in a company and team that values you for you; you’ll act with purpose and have an impact through your everyday actions; and you’ll be able to thrive in your own way. In addition, we also offer a range of resources, rewards and benefits for our colleagues and their families:
- Unlimited access to an online platform offering mental health and wellbeing support.
- Employee Assistance Programme to help with everyday issues or larger problems where you may need additional support, including legal and financial advice, support with work related issues or personal issues such as bereavement.
- Access to a free health and wellbeing app that provides rewards for maintaining a healthy lifestyle and includes access to a 24hr virtual GP and various other services.
- The Sodexo Discounts Scheme, offering great deals 24/7 (also open to friends and family) and/or the prepayment cashback card.
- Money Insights and financial benefits via the Salary Finance Platform.
- Save for your future by becoming a member of the Sodexo Retirement Plan
- A death in Service benefit for colleagues who pass away whilst employed by Sodexo
- Opportunities to enable colleagues to grow and succeed throughout their career at Sodexo, including apprenticeships and a variety of learning and development tools.
- Cycle to Work Scheme to help colleagues to do their bit for the environment whilst keeping fit.
- Volunteering Opportunities to enable all colleagues to help support worthwhile causes in our communities.
- Flexible and dynamic work environment
- Competitive compensation
- Full training and full protective uniform supplied
Ready to be part of something greater? Apply today!
Role Responsibility
- To manage Coffee shop and provide support in the preparation, cooking and serving of food and beverages. This is a dual role that would require you to also work in our Hospitality department.
- To lead shifts when assigned by line manager, taking responsibility for delivering brand standards in, but not limited to cash management, opening the unit, preparing for the shift, closing the unit, orders, monitoring and delivering high standards of customer service, accepting deliveries.
- To perform the role of float where required.
- Train all new team members to Barista level using appropriate training materials
- Take responsibility for checking the quality of the espresso by accurately measuring & recording the grind & dose
- Ensure all drinks are made and served to brand standard
- Support team throughout shift to ensure delivery of service to brand standard
- Identify any gaps in training and undertake any training as required
- To ensure all coffee equipment is in good working order and report any faults as required
- The Ideal Candidate
- Fully trained to Barista standard with full understanding of brand standards.
- Literate & numerate
- Ability to communicate effectively with customers, client & staff
- Passionate , friendly and diligent
- Ability to work with a team, and on own initiative
- The candidate for this role must be fit to undertake various manual handing tasks that includes moving of furniture and partition wall panels in our BEC
- Flexible approach to the role
Package Description
- 37.5 hours per week
- Monday – Friday
- 10:00am – 6:00pm
- £10.42 per hour
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About the Company
About Sodexo
At Sodexo, our purpose is to create a better everyday for everyone to build a better life for all. As the global leader in services that improve the Quality of Life, we operate in 55 countries, serving over 100 million consumers each day through our unique combination of On-Site Food and FM Services, Benefits & Rewards Services and Personal & Home Services.
We are committed to being an inclusive employer. We are a forces friendly employer. We welcome and encourage applications from people with a diverse variety of experiences, backgrounds and identities. We encourage our employees to get involved with our Employee Networks such as Pride, Sodexo Working Parents, Sodexo Disability, So together, generations and origins. We have also launched Be Heard which is an employee network designed to bring black colleagues together (virtually) to bring about positive change.
We’re a Disability Confident Leader employer. We’re committed to changing attitudes towards disability, and making sure disabled people have the chance to fulfil their aspirations.
Click to read more about what we do to promote an inclusive culture.
Expected salary: £10.42 per hour
Location: Nottingham
