Job Description
Job Description
Manpower Recruitment have teamed up with an established College, in Oxford City Centre.
We are recruiting for a Part Time, Evening Front of House Assistant on a Permanent basis.
The working hours will be 5 days out of 7, Days off on Sunday and Monday.
The working pattern for the 15 hours per week will be the following, Tuesday to Friday for example, 17:30-20:30 or 17:00-20:00, but work on Saturday at 17:30-19:30.
The Pay is £12.49ph
The Catering Assistant will be working as part of the Hall team to provide outstanding levels of service to all those who use the Hall (including Fellows, students, staff and conference delegates), and to promote a professional and positive image of the College to everyone who dines in the Hall.
*During conference periods, the duties/ hours of work may vary according to the needs of the conferences present in College, and the role may have a greater emphasis on providing food service to delegates.
Main Duties
Food service
- To provide service from the Servery counter during breakfast, lunch, dinner. To notify the Duty Chef of food shortages prior to running out.
- On a rota basis, to oversee the running of the salad bar, and to maintain adequate food levels (as appropriate).
- To operate the tills in the Servery, as required.
- To clear away unused food after lunch, liaising with the Duty Chef to determine which foods should be kept (storing them correctly) and which should be disposed of. To clean tables in the Hall.
Food preparation and hygiene
- To assist in the preparation of the Servery prior to meals and to clean the Servery after meals, ensuring that the required standards of hygiene and cleanliness are maintained at all times.
- To check and record temperatures.
- To clean Hall tables and lamps.
- To clean and refill the juice dispenser.
- To lay out food for the self-service lunchtime salad bar, and to ensure that adequate crockery and cutlery are available.
- To assist the Duty Chef with the preparation of buffet food for staff lunches.
- To prepare the SCR sandwiches on a daily basis.
- To assist the Duty Chef with food preparation in the afternoon (as required) and to pass prepared food to the casual waiting staff for service.
- To plate up meals as required for the Night Porters. To place these meals in the 'SCAF' fridge(s) for collection at night.
Cleaning and Presentation
- To ensure that all the required serving utensils are clean and ready prior to breakfast, lunch and dinner.
- To remove all clean crockery and cutlery from the wash-up trolleys or Green crockery trolleys, and store it in the appropriate place. To move the 'full' main plate hot trolleys from the wash-up area to their Servery positions, and to replace them with the empty or nearly empty hot trolleys.
- To assist in clearing away the plate trolleys during and after meal service.
- To assist with the cleaning of tables in Hall after meal service, and to assist with the moving of tables and chairs in Hall, as required.
- To regularly wash and sanitise the wash-up tables on either side of the glass wash machine.
- To regularly clean fridges, shelves, sinks and the ice machine in the Servery.
- To maintain accurate records of cleaning schedules within the Hall and Servery.
- When required, to assist in the general cleaning of the Hall and foyer/ entrance areas.
General
- To take the dirty laundry from the Hall and Kitchen to the Linen Room.
- To make coffee and clean, rinse and/ or de-scale the coffee machine, as appropriate.
- To assist with stocktaking.
- To ensure the Servery area is tidy.
- To undertake any other duties, consistent with the purpose of the post, as may from time to time be assigned by the Hall & SCR Manager, Head Chef or their representative.
If interested, please contact a Manpower Representative