Dining Room Assistant

London

Contract: Full Time, Permanent

Salary: £13.13

Hours: 40 per week

A small independent pre-prep day school for boys and part of a large group of schools. Set in the heart of gorgeous Kensington & Chelsea, London. Catering for about 170 students and teachers. We offer a core feeding of Lunch & mid morning snack. There will be some amount of hospitality offering at this location. This is a term time only contract working 40 weeks a year. This school operates Monday to Friday.

We are looking for a talented Dining Room Assistant to join our team at one of our fabulous locations in London .

You will have previous experience of working within a schools working with children in a dining room environment. You will be excited to work with young children, supporting them with eating, serving and cleaning after them.

Key Responsibilities

• To deliver food to the children, establishing good eating habits, supporting them to try new foods.
• To ensure any child with any allergy or intolerances is given the correct foods.
• Ensuring all Food Hygiene and Health & Safety policies and allergen control procedures are followed.
• Helping set up and close down the dining room environment.
• Clear and clean after the lunchtime service.
• Great team player.
• Be able to work well with the food production team to deliver great food and service.

You Will Have The Following Skills

• A genuine interest in food & excellent customer service.
• An all-round team player.
• An organised Dining Room Assistant 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.