Food Service Assistant

Job Introduction

At Sodexo, we are passionate about food and we place our consumers at the heart of everything we do. Our talented teams use their passion to create beautiful dishes with the finest ingredients, while being sensitive to nutritional needs and environmental impact. It all comes to life when food tastes amazing and delights our consumers!
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To provide this excellent service, we have a team of passionate Food Service Assistant behind us, and we currently have a vacancy to join us!

Role Responsibility

You’ll be responsible for preparing and serving food with care and attention, replenishing stock, and ensuring all work areas are glistening! With great service at the heart of what we do, you’ll always provide excellent service.

To keep our service running like clockwork, you’ll complete all administration when needed, focusing on tasks such as checking food temperatures, food wastage, cleaning and washing up.

You will always ensure that all Health and Safety regulations are followed.

The Ideal Candidate

This is a customer facing role so it’s important to have a positive, friendly attitude. You will work as part of a team and will need to have strong communication skills, being able to also work independently.

Experience working in a similar industry i.e. food service, catering or hospitality would be great, but generally customer service experience will tick the box!

A general knowledge of health and safety procedures would also be beneficial.  

Package Description

Employer: Sodexo Independents Schools

 Location: Campbell College Belfast

Job: Food Service Assistant/ Kitchen Porter

Hours: 27.5 Hours (44 Weeks Term Time)

Salary: Minimum Salary

Job Description:

The position of FSA (Food Service Assistant)/ Kitchen porter would be contracted to work term time, 44 weeks on equated pay, which will be spread over a 12-month period of the year from Monday to Friday each week and a total of 27.5 hours a week.

The job would entail to be good at following instructions from management team and the head chef. Be able to work efficiently, effectively in a busy kitchen environment, by ensuring a high level of cleanliness is shown throughout the kitchen, being able to work well and communicate with a team and display good organisational skills.

The daily duties of an FSA/ Kitchen Porter would be to work in the kitchen throughout the busy lunch time periods with the team, to ensure that all crockery is clean and returned to service as required. To work as part of the boarding department at early dinner time to serve hot evening meals to our international students, take part in theme evenings each month and to be apart of a great group of individuals.

Skills/ Qualities/ Qualifications:

Kitchen Assistant needs a variety of skills and qualifications to perform their duties effectively. These skills and qualifications include:

• Excellent organisational skills,
• Able to work as part of a team,
• Good Customer Service qualities,
• A good attention to detail,
• Ability to maintain various stovetops and meat slicers
• Basic knowledge/ experience of food service
• Basic knowledge of kitchen hygiene and safety standards
• Attention to detail and interpersonal skills
• Kitchen Assistant experience requirements

Will gain experience on the job, plus take part in Sodexo training in allergens, health and safety including food safety. Applicants must also have experience operating in a kitchen environment, sanitising the kitchen area and attention to detail. Experience in serving hot food, good friendly customer service with being able to go communicate well with others.

Contract Details:

Email: Andrew.mcnabb@sodexo.com     Contact Number:  028 9076 3368

About the Company

Why choose Sodexo?
You don’t just join Sodexo, you belong.   

What do we mean when we say belong?  

It’s simple. You create a company where everyone is respected and feels that their ideas count. You take care of the quality of life of your people. You make your workplace inclusive, encouraging people to bring their whole self to work every day. That’s our philosophy in a nutshell.   

A career at Sodexo won’t tie you down, it actively encourages your progress. The diverse range of roles we offer is truly infinite. Whatever your skills, experience or passion, you’ll be encouraged and supported to have a fulfilling career. 

We are committed to being an inclusive 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.   

We are building on our support to the Armed Forces community through the development of specific pathways within our recruitment process to support ex-forces personnel and reservists, those applying for jobs with us who meet the ideal candidate criteria for the role advertised are guaranteed to progress to the selection process.

Click here to read more about what we do to promote an inclusive culture. 

Our benefits:   
As part of our commitment to improving the quality of life, health and wellbeing for our employees we provide discounts and benefits that you can tailor to suit your needs. In addition to the essentials like 20 days holidays (plus bank holidays) and pension contribution, we can help you take advantage of being part of Sodexo with benefits such as;    

• Sodexo Discounts - discounts from over 1,200 top retailers with you earning WOW Points (cashback) as you shop   
• Talk – a free wellbeing support helpline for you and your family   
• Up to three paid days each year to volunteer
• Your Lucky Number Employee Lottery (this also supports the Sodexo Stop Hunger Foundation)
• Cycle to work    
• Life assurance