Hospitality Commercial Service Assistant
The Vacancy
Newcastle College requires a dedicated, enthusiastic person to take on the role of Food Service Assistant working in our very own Lifestyle Bistro.
This is an opportunity for the right candidate to join a well-motivated, cohesive, and successful team and to support our ever-growing provision of excellent facilities for all our students and contributing to a great working environment for our staff.
The main responsibility of this role includes working independently in supporting the day-to-day operational service of food and drink within one of our Real working environments, supporting team members to work towards budgets, and ensuring the department is compliant with any internal or external audits/inspections.
The role of Service Assistant will be integral to ensure the Curriculum department offer a service to all staff and students as well as external visitors which is in line with current industry practice and standards with a varied offer and good value. This will also support Curriculum staff within Hospitality by promoting key services across Newcastle College with high-quality learning programmes across multiple disciplines and levels within further and adult education.
This post requires a strong background in food Service industry and the candidate must have a proven track record of professional and vocational expertise, including Barista trained.
It is desirable that the candidate has a vocational relevant qualification to (Level 2) or relevant industry experience and hold English and Maths qualifications at level 2. It is also desirable that the candidate has experience of working within an educational setting.
An ability to self-manage workload, meet deadlines, strong verbal and written communication skills are also essential. The hours of work will predominantly include evenings in line with student demand.
The Hospitality department is a well-respected and positive place to work, where colleagues work effectively together to ensure all stakeholders get the best value from every aspect of the curriculum offer.
About Newcastle College
Newcastle College is a further and higher education college offering hundreds of vocational courses, apprenticeships and professional qualifications, alongside more than 70 degrees and higher technical qualifications, delivered through Newcastle College University Centre.
We consider Newcastle College to be at the heart of the North East; a welcoming, supportive, inclusive and safe place, where everybody can be themselves as part of our vibrant and diverse community.
We’re proud to be one of seven colleges that make up NCG, one of the country’s leading college groups and we’re a key part of providing education and training to learners, apprentices and employers across the UK. Newcastle College’s vision is to develop the skills and talents of our students to succeed in modern enterprise and make a positive contribution to the prosperity of our region.
Newcastle College benefits from passionate and talented colleagues, who form a community committed to supporting our students to develop their skills and talents and achieve their aspirations. By joining our team you’ll be part of an organisation that works in close partnership with employers and local industry to offer education and skills training that leads to real employment opportunities for our learners and makes strong local economic impact here in the North East. Whatever your role, you’ll have the chance to work collaboratively with colleagues across all seven NCG colleges and share expertise, innovate and accomplish real change for our learners.
Newcastle College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff to share this commitment.
At Newcastle College, our values are not just about what we do, but also about how we do things.
Our values underpin the culture and beliefs of our organisation, we expect all our staff to demonstrate behaviours in line with our core values.
1. Being both inclusive and diverse
2. Trusting and respecting our communities
3. Taking ownership whilst working collaboratively
4. Inspiring excellence and curiosity.
As part of the NCG Group, Newcastle College offers an excellent benefits package, including generous holiday entitlement, access to the Teachers’ pension scheme (for teaching posts) or Local Government pension scheme (non-teaching posts), company sick pay, a cycle to work scheme and much more.
NCG seeks to promote and maintain an equal, diverse, inclusive and supportive environment for work and study that assists all members of our communities to reach their full potential. We are committed to achieving a truly representative workforce and therefore welcome applications from across the national and regional communities that we work with and serve.
To view Job Description, Person Specification and NCG Values Pack please click the document attachment at the bottom of this advert. No agency applications will be accepted.
NCG reserve the right to close the vacancy early.
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Telephone: 0191 226 6390
Email: NCGRecruitment@ncgrp.co.uk