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Restaurant Service Assistant
| Posting date: | 15 May 2025 |
|---|---|
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 30 May 2025 |
| Location: | Tilehurst, Berkshire, RG30 3NT |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | A2Dominion |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | Restaurant Service Assistant |
Summary
Job title: Restaurant Service Assistant
Contract: Permanent
Hours: 16 – 18 hours per week Mon-Fri
Salary: £12.60 per hour
Location: Onsite at Charles Clore Court, Reading, Berkshire
About A2Dominion
We are a UK housing association committed to a new vision – providing homes people love to live in.
With over 38,000 homes in management across London and southern England, we provide a wide range of homes for social, affordable, and private rent, specialist services, as well as homes for sale and shared ownership.
Our 70,000+ customers come from a diverse range of backgrounds with varying levels of income. We’re here to provide them all with homes that are safe, high quality and sustainable.
And with social housing roots going back eight decades, we continue to ensure that every penny of profit is reinvested into our charitable social purpose – delivering more homes and better services for customers.
About the role
To provide a comprehensive catering service, ensuring we deliver high quality meals to clients living in sheltered accommodation and/or the wider community. This role is to work in an extra care setting operating within the catering service to deliver excellent customer service.
Key responsibilities
- Responsible for checking resident food profiles for allergies, preferences and IDDSI rating. Adhering to Company and Environmental Health Standards.
- Responsible for upholding the cleanliness of all aspects within the kitchen, storerooms and kitchen office. Washing uniforms on-site and maintaining a tidy, extensive supply.
- Assisting the Chef Manager with deliveries. Stock rotation and removing any out-of-date items. Communicating when products running low.
- Carry out Health, Safety and Food Hygiene standards checks as directed by A2Dominion Catering Standards and ensuring that all practices meet the statutory regulations, including the Registered Homes Act 1984, and A2Dominion’s Health and Safety policy.
- Supporting the Chef Manager in preparing and responding to inspections or audits by external authorities and other bodies to fulfil reporting requirements.
- Responsible for arranging and managing mandatory training requirements set by A2Dominion. Serving meals to residents within the restaurant
More about You
The following are desirable:
- Educated to GCSE level or equivalent in Maths & English (Grades A* - C)
- Cooking experience desirable
- Knowledge of Extra Care home environment
- Ability to engage with elderly vulnerable customers and their families
- You won’t necessarily have experience in this sector, as we recognise that transferrable skills and experience are just as valuable.
- We are specifically looking for candidates with the right skills and attitudes, who will demonstrate and promote our values of caring by nature, working better together and thinking for tomorrow.
Application process
Please attach a tailored CV for this role, ensuring it highlights relevant experience and provides explanations for any employment gaps.
Choosing us is easy
As an employee of A2Dominion, we want you to feel rewarded and have a choice of flexible benefits, salary exchange benefits, and rewards and discounts that work for you, wherever you are in your life.
We offer a wide range of staff benefits. For this role, these include:
- 25 days’ holiday (Plus Bank Holidays) increasing up to 28 days with 3 years of service
- Up to 8% contributory pension
- Flexible working
- Investment in your learning and development
In addition, all permanent and fixed-term employees receive a generous annual allowance of up to £300 to use towards health and lifestyle benefits for both you and your family.
Contract: Permanent
Hours: 16 – 18 hours per week Mon-Fri
Salary: £12.60 per hour
Location: Onsite at Charles Clore Court, Reading, Berkshire
About A2Dominion
We are a UK housing association committed to a new vision – providing homes people love to live in.
With over 38,000 homes in management across London and southern England, we provide a wide range of homes for social, affordable, and private rent, specialist services, as well as homes for sale and shared ownership.
Our 70,000+ customers come from a diverse range of backgrounds with varying levels of income. We’re here to provide them all with homes that are safe, high quality and sustainable.
And with social housing roots going back eight decades, we continue to ensure that every penny of profit is reinvested into our charitable social purpose – delivering more homes and better services for customers.
About the role
To provide a comprehensive catering service, ensuring we deliver high quality meals to clients living in sheltered accommodation and/or the wider community. This role is to work in an extra care setting operating within the catering service to deliver excellent customer service.
Key responsibilities
- Responsible for checking resident food profiles for allergies, preferences and IDDSI rating. Adhering to Company and Environmental Health Standards.
- Responsible for upholding the cleanliness of all aspects within the kitchen, storerooms and kitchen office. Washing uniforms on-site and maintaining a tidy, extensive supply.
- Assisting the Chef Manager with deliveries. Stock rotation and removing any out-of-date items. Communicating when products running low.
- Carry out Health, Safety and Food Hygiene standards checks as directed by A2Dominion Catering Standards and ensuring that all practices meet the statutory regulations, including the Registered Homes Act 1984, and A2Dominion’s Health and Safety policy.
- Supporting the Chef Manager in preparing and responding to inspections or audits by external authorities and other bodies to fulfil reporting requirements.
- Responsible for arranging and managing mandatory training requirements set by A2Dominion. Serving meals to residents within the restaurant
More about You
The following are desirable:
- Educated to GCSE level or equivalent in Maths & English (Grades A* - C)
- Cooking experience desirable
- Knowledge of Extra Care home environment
- Ability to engage with elderly vulnerable customers and their families
- You won’t necessarily have experience in this sector, as we recognise that transferrable skills and experience are just as valuable.
- We are specifically looking for candidates with the right skills and attitudes, who will demonstrate and promote our values of caring by nature, working better together and thinking for tomorrow.
Application process
Please attach a tailored CV for this role, ensuring it highlights relevant experience and provides explanations for any employment gaps.
Choosing us is easy
As an employee of A2Dominion, we want you to feel rewarded and have a choice of flexible benefits, salary exchange benefits, and rewards and discounts that work for you, wherever you are in your life.
We offer a wide range of staff benefits. For this role, these include:
- 25 days’ holiday (Plus Bank Holidays) increasing up to 28 days with 3 years of service
- Up to 8% contributory pension
- Flexible working
- Investment in your learning and development
In addition, all permanent and fixed-term employees receive a generous annual allowance of up to £300 to use towards health and lifestyle benefits for both you and your family.