AddressJob Title: Catering Assistant (Full Time)
Reports to: Cook
Hours: 40 Hours pw (will include weekends & occasional evening events)
Salary: £23,920pa
Location: The Furnace Kitchen, Coalbrookdale
Closing Date for Applications: 9am Friday 22 March 2024
Function:
As a Catering Assistant you are effectively the engine room of the kitchen - responsible for hygiene and cleanliness within the food preparation areas to ensure the kitchen is always clean and operational. Working under the guidance of the Cook, your job will include carrying out basic food preparation tasks such as washing, peeling and preparing food for service.
As a member of the Furnace Kitchen team you will work collaboratively across service disciplines including food preparation and service to maximise the flexibly of the team and to ensure efficient and effective customer service.
To put our customers at the heart of everything we do.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Ensuring the food preparation areas are clean and hygienic
- Washing utensils and dishes and making sure they are stored appropriately
- Sorting, storing and distributing ingredients
- Assisting in food preparation and service
- Cleaning the food preparation equipment, floors and other kitchen tools or areas
- Work closely with the Front of House Team to ensure service exceeds customer expectations.
Person Specification:
Essential:
- Previous kitchen experience or food, beverage and restaurant industry knowledge
- Understanding the importance of health & safety and hygiene
- A great team player with a positive attitude
- Self-motivated
- Ability to work under pressure
- Exceptional customer service skills.
Desirable:
- Formal culinary training
- Strong organizational skills with attention to detail
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
Staff benefits include:
- Paid annual leave up to 33 days (includes public holidays), pro-rata for part-time staff
- Auto enrolment to the Nest Pension Scheme for eligible staff
- Optional health cash plan through Paycare
- Free on-site parking
Participation in a Staff Membership Scheme which includes:
- Free unlimited daytime standard entry to all museums for staff member plus one accompanying adult and up to four children
- 20% discount on catering spend, including the Furnace Kitchen
- 20% discount on retail spend
- 20% discount on retail spend in Victorian exhibits at Blists Hill
- 4 free standard day-time admission passes for use by friends and family accompanying staff member
- Discount on special event tickets.
About the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust
The Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust is an industrial heritage organisation which runs ten museums and manages multiple historic sites within the Ironbridge Gorge World Heritage Site in Shropshire, England, widely considered as the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution.
The Trust operates various food outlets including the recently opened flagship restaurant The Furnace Kitchen. As well as visitor catering outlets the Museum also offers various Conference & Banqueting and Wedding and Event locations across our sites.
Our commitment to diversity and equality is a long-standing one. We believe arts organisations, museums, and libraries should ensure that their work draws on and reflects the full range of backgrounds and perspectives to be found in our society.
Disabled, D/deaf and/or neurodivergent people, those from Black, Asian and Ethnically Diverse backgrounds are under-represented in our workforce so we particularly encourage applications from people in these groups.
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Salary: £23,920.00 per year
Benefits:
- Company pension
- Discounted or free food
- Employee discount
- Free parking
- On-site parking
- Store discount
Day range:
- Monday to Friday
- Weekend availability
Shift:
- Day shift
Work Location: In person
Application deadline: 22/03/2024
