Job title: Catering Operative (Temporary)
Location: Mirfield, WF14 0DQ
Salary: £8.95/hr
Hours: 25 hours, Monday – Friday, 9.30 – 2.30.
Benefits: Free on-site parking, staff discount scheme and training opportunities.

The Company

We are a charity founded in 1954 and have a number of adult and children’s residential homes, including an outstanding school, on-site speech therapy, physiotherapy and hydro-therapy services. We have achieved a reputation of attaining very high service standards, working with children, young people and adults who have complex and multiple physical disabilities and associated communication, sensory and learning difficulties.

Overall Aim

We are looking for a customer focused, confident Catering Operative to provide a high-quality catering service to visitors, staff and residents in our "Treetops” café and our students in school. You will be responsible for helping to provide a high quality and cost-effective service, working within a small catering team effectively, ensuring that waste and food cost are kept to a minimum.

Day-to-day duties

• To prepare hot meals, salads, sandwiches, potato products and sauces, including assembling food items, baking and decorating cakes and desserts and preparing cooked items to service standards.
• Comply with food safety, health and safety and COSHH legislation and Trust policies and procedures
• Manage stock and place orders to ensure correct levels of stock are maintained in line service instructions, keeping waste to a minimum
• Cash handling including daily cashing up and balancing of float
• To follow service instructions ensuring standards are kept high
• Cleaning to a standard require to maintain a 5* rating

Skills, Knowledge and Experience required:

You should enjoy giving great customer service and want to ensure that every food and drink order is well presented and served with a smile.

You should be comfortable working as part of a team but also be able to work independently to create hot meals, update records and clean effectively.

The ideal candidate will have experience working in catering and ideally hold a level 2 Food safety certificate.

What we offer:

• Free parking
• Staff Discount Scheme
• Pension
• Training Opportunities

To find out more, please call Jodie Barnard on 01924 490833 or email on j.barnard@hollybanktrust.com

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We want people from underrepresented groups such as Black and Minority Ethnic (BAME), Lesbian, Gay, Bi and Trans (LGBTQIA+) communities to succeed at Hollybank Trust and our policies and procedures ensure that this can happen. Click here to find out more about our approach to equality and diversity.

Hollybank Trust is a Disability Confident employer. We are actively working to recruit and retain people with disabilities and long-term health conditions into our work force. If you are an applicant who has a disability, you will be offered an interview if you meet the essential criteria for the job.