Catering Assistant (Graze café), Full Time (predominantly Monday to Friday 7am until 3pm)
| Posting date: | 18 September 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £12.38 per hour |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 01 October 2025 |
| Location: | Newport, Shropshire |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | Harper Adams University |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | DN-1978A |
Summary
Harper Adams University is looking to recruit a full time Café Assistant delivering excellent customer service experience to students, conference guests and University staff.
The successful candidate should have a minimum of some front of house catering & hospitality/café experience & good customer service skills.
The main duties of the role are:
• Serve customers in a polite & friendly manner.
• To ensure a high quality, customer focused provision of hot and cold food & beverages
• Setting up the Café offering in accordance to department standards.
• Ensure the facilities are maintained to a high standard including compliance with the department’s hygiene regulations.
• Handle cash & cashless payments in accordance with company procedure
• To assist in the promotion and display of the merchandising on counter displays
• Ensure all health and safety, legal and security issues adhered to.
• Carry out any reasonable requests from your supervisor.
• Stand in for the Supervisor during periods of absence (Holiday, Annual leave, sickness).
• All other duties and responsibilities commensurate with the post and the salary range of the grade.
• Be prepared to help out with special events i.e. Graduation, Open Days and Royal Visits.
If you have any queries or questions or for an informal discussion, please contact David Nuttall via email dnuttall@harper-adams.ac..uk
For further information about the University or to see full job description, please visit our website at www.harper-adams.ac.uk
Application Procedure:
Please apply online by submitting covering letter and full Curriculum Vitae (to include two referee details) via the Harper Adams e-Recruitment programme at http://jobs.harper-adams.ac.uk by no later than midnight on 1 October 2025
Kindly note that prior applicants will not be considered
Unfortunately, we cannot offer sponsorship for this position
The successful candidate should have a minimum of some front of house catering & hospitality/café experience & good customer service skills.
The main duties of the role are:
• Serve customers in a polite & friendly manner.
• To ensure a high quality, customer focused provision of hot and cold food & beverages
• Setting up the Café offering in accordance to department standards.
• Ensure the facilities are maintained to a high standard including compliance with the department’s hygiene regulations.
• Handle cash & cashless payments in accordance with company procedure
• To assist in the promotion and display of the merchandising on counter displays
• Ensure all health and safety, legal and security issues adhered to.
• Carry out any reasonable requests from your supervisor.
• Stand in for the Supervisor during periods of absence (Holiday, Annual leave, sickness).
• All other duties and responsibilities commensurate with the post and the salary range of the grade.
• Be prepared to help out with special events i.e. Graduation, Open Days and Royal Visits.
If you have any queries or questions or for an informal discussion, please contact David Nuttall via email dnuttall@harper-adams.ac..uk
For further information about the University or to see full job description, please visit our website at www.harper-adams.ac.uk
Application Procedure:
Please apply online by submitting covering letter and full Curriculum Vitae (to include two referee details) via the Harper Adams e-Recruitment programme at http://jobs.harper-adams.ac.uk by no later than midnight on 1 October 2025
Kindly note that prior applicants will not be considered
Unfortunately, we cannot offer sponsorship for this position