Catering Assistant

We are currently recruiting for a Catering Assistant to join our Catering and Hospitality Team working in our staff restaurant.

Our catering and hospitality team provide a fully catered service this includes hot cooked meal options, cooked breakfast, sandwiches, pastries and snack options to our employees, visitors and customers at our sites in Trowbridge.

The post holder will be responsible for assisting the team to ensure that we provide a daily service of breakfast, lunch, dinner, and late-night supper to our employees.

The role will include food preparation, kitchen and front of house service and duties.

Hours of Work;

Sunday-Thursday 22:00pm - 2:30am = 22.5 hours per a week.

Some flexibility may be required during the holiday period.

apetito is the UK’s leading food supplier to the health and social care sectors serving more than 1,300 care homes, health care and education settings.

Our meals are expertly crafted by our dieticians and chefs, and then frozen to lock in the goodness.

Wiltshire Farm Foods, our sister company, is the UK’s largest ready meal supplier cooking and delivering over 330 different delicious frozen ready meals across the UK.

Day to Day:

• Prepare, cook and present food to a high standard.
• Serve food to customers with a high degree of customer service.
• Beverage and Food preparation for delivery for internal meetings and functions
• Sort, clear, stack and wash all crockery, cutlery and food trollies.
• Filling and cleaning the vending machines.
• Putting away deliveries and ensuring stock rotation.
• Staff restaurant seating area is always kept clean and tidy.
• Adhering to all compliance and best practice processes in place in respect of food hygiene, health and safety and environmental matters such as minimizing food waste.
• Ensure that the facilities are cleaned and maintained to a high standard at all times.
• Completing day to day administration i.e. temperature checks.
• To undertake any other duties that are commensurate with the role.

Essential:

• Knowledge and experience in food preparation, cooking and service.
• Knowledge and experience of delivering excellence in customer care and service, particularly front of house customer care.
• Previous catering experience.
• Experience of working as part of a team.
• Good knowledge of health and safety within a catering environment.

Desirable:

• Certificate in food safety.
• NVQ in professional cookery.

 Personal Qualities: 

• Good communication skills.
• Ability to prioritise, manage time and meet deadlines.
• Work as part of a team.
• Flexible and willing to carry out duties which become necessary when required.
• Passion for good quality food and service.
• A strong commitment to the ethos and values of apetito.
• At all times exercise a high standard of personal integrity and professional conduct.

Please note: The job requires a good level of physical fitness and involves some lifting, pulling and general manual labour, i.e. collecting deliveries and moving boxes etc from pallets onto trolleys which then need be transported to the kitchen area; lifting of boxes from the stock room onto a trolley to replenish the vending machines etc.

• Competitive salary – accredited Living Wage employer
• 25 days holiday per year, plus bank holidays
• Option to purchase up to 5 additional days holiday per year
• Discretionary annual bonus scheme
• Pension scheme - employer matched contributions up to 4%
• Life assurance scheme worth at least 1x annual salary
• Subsidised canteen
• Free parking
• Free turkey or voucher at Christmas
• apetito perks scheme including salary sacrifice options and retail discounts

As a family-owned business, we take great pride in being a company that makes a real difference and is dedicated to creating outstanding meals to be proud of.

We develop a range of products designed to enhance health and well-being for all our customers.

We are driven by a passion for service and dedicated to feeding some of the UK’s most vulnerable people.

We proudly support British food and farming, focusing on using the best ethical and sustainable produce in alignment with our goal to reach Net Zero by 2040.

Our ethical standards are recognised by the ETI and we are an accredited Living Wage employer.
Learn more about apetito’s commitment to a more sustainable future.

We embrace inclusion, empowering individuals from diverse backgrounds.

Our commitment to making a real difference extends to customers, communities, and staff and we're on a mission to build an inclusive workplace where everyone reaches their full potential.