Business Unit:
Canterbury College
Location:
Canterbury
Salary Details:
£21,009 FTE per annum
Hours Per Week:
37
Weeks Per Year:
40
Annual Leave:
6.2 weeks per year
Proposed Interview Date:
03/10/2023
Advertising End Date:
02/10/2023

About The Role

**Please note that this role requires the successful candidate to work 37 hours per week, 40 weeks during term time and the salary will be £16,116.45 pro rata**
 
Payment for 6.2 weeks pro rata, £2,498.05 will be paid equally in your twelve-monthly salary payments in addition to the above salary**
 
EKC Group are seeking a Catering Assistant to join their commercial team in Canterbury at our new Spring Lane unit. As a Catering Assistant you will undertake Cashier duties, preparation of Barista Coffee, cooking and cleaning within the Division. You will be part of small team to deliver an outstanding food experience to our students and staff on site. 

As a Catering Assistant you will be responsible for all general catering tasks including customer service, maintaining stock levels, cleaning, cashier duties, preparing and serving hot drinks and food. 

Working at EKC Group is an extremely rewarding with excellent benefits, such as, competitive holiday entitlement, access to a range of discounts on many high street stores and a generous pension scheme. 
This position will require two weeks work in July each year at the main Canterbury College site.

About You

We are seeking to appoint a well organised and confident individual to our catering team. The successful candidate will have relevant practical industrial experience e.g Cooking, customer service, familiar with professional coffee making machines, Cash handling, kitchen cleaning, chemical handling, general pot wash duties. You will also have good customer service skills and experience of maintaining a clean and safe working environment. 

The ideal candidate will hold a Health & Safety qualification related to relevant area of work or equivalent e.g. Basic Food Hygiene and have basic IT Skills.  
 
Please contact the Resourcing Team at [email protected] if you have any queries about this position.

About Us

Outstanding Ofsted Provider

East Kent Colleges Group is an Ofsted Outstanding rated provider. It is proud to be the first General Further Education college organisation in the country to have received the Outstanding grade against each of the strands under the new Ofsted inspection framework. An inclusive provider, our colleagues place our students and the communities we serve at the heart of everything they do across EKC Group and this is illustrated in our ‘Strong’ skills grading by Ofsted.

Commitment to Safeguarding

EKC Group is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and we ensure that all staff are aware of their responsibilities for upholding these principles. The Group’s designation as a ‘designated establishment’ means that all posts within EKC Group are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA) 1974. We therefore have an obligation to carry out robust checks to ensure that staff are suitable to work with children and vulnerable adults; applicants are therefore advised that appropriate safeguarding checks (including an enhanced DBS check) will be undertaken on all successful applicants; job offers will be made on the basis of satisfactory DBS and other checks, including the receipt of two references. If you are successful in obtaining an interview, your suitability to work with children and vulnerable adults will be explored as part of the interview process. Applicants should note that it is a criminal offence to apply for a post which involves engaging in regulated activity relevant to children if you are barred from doing so. All applicants are required to complete and submit a self-declaration of their criminal record or information that would make them unsuitable to work with children and vulnerable adults.

Commitment to Equal Opportunities

EKC Group is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all members of our communities. We are particularly keen to increase the diversity of our staff body and encourage applications from candidates where there is underrepresentation in our workforce. We are proud to hold the Positive About Disability Award; this confirms our commitment to interviewing all applicants who declare that they have a disability and who meet the essential criteria outlined in the person specification. Similarly, our commitment to Care Leavers means that we will interview applicants who meet the minimum criteria and who have declared on their application that they are a Care Leaver.

We welcome applications from anyone wishing to work flexibly and those considering a return to work from a career break.

We do not engage with agencies for permanent staff and have an in-house recruitment team.

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