Catering Assistant

Closing Date: 01/06/2025
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Castle Espie
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£9,555 per annum (£23,887.50 FTE)
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Permanent
Catering

About The Role

The Trading Assistant is a key part of the WWT Castle Espie, utilising, their skills and hospitality to maximise sales within the cafe; thereby supporting our conservation work.

Your role will be diverse, mainly working within our catering team with scope to work within our retail and admissions team. We will provide training and coaching for all aspects of the role. The majority of your role will include:

  • giving a warm welcome to every visitor to the café, demonstrating exceptional standards of customer service
  • taking orders, making hot drinks as well as serving our seasonal menu and clearing tables
  • helping in the kitchen, preparing food and ensuring you maintain high standards of food hygiene and safety at all times.

This is a seven-day-a-week operation. We work on a schedule which will include regular weekend work.  This is a part time role working 15 hours per week. 

When visiting our website, you will notice the position is referred to as Trading Assistant. This is how the role is known internally at WWT.

About You

Experience is not necessary as full training is given. An ideal candidate will be able to demonstrate:

  • Good communication skills
  • Ability to work as part of a busy team, and independently if required
  • Good personal hygiene is mandatory

Independent transport is crucial as the site is away from public transport.

About Us

We’re WWT, and we’re on a mission to restore the super-powered ecosystems we call wetlands. There’s never been a more important moment for our work, and we’ve got some phenomenal people on the case.

Whether they’re taking a new visitor under their wing, or conducting ground-breaking research further afield, our team are second to none. And there’s nothing we love more than watching them soar.

Whatever you do here, you’ll be helping to restore wetlands and unlock their power. So, the only question left is, what role will you play?

Why you’ll love working at WWT
  • Wake up every day knowing your work is helping to restore wetlands, and our world
  • Be surrounded and inspired by our team of passionate, dedicated people
  • 33 days annual leave (which goes up to 38 days after 5 years of service) – this includes bank holidays and you have flexibility to take those days whenever you want
  • Free entry to all our wetland centres, including your family
  • Free car parking and secure bike storage areas
  • Colleague discount on shopping and memberships
  • Cycle to work scheme
  • Contributory pension scheme
  • Life Assurance of three times your salary, for peace of mind for your loved ones
  • Independent personal, workplace and financial advice from Care first
WWT is an equal opportunities employer and all applications will be considered solely on merit.
 
Registered Charity Number England & Wales, no 1030884 and Scotland, no SC039410

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