Food Service Assistant
| Posting date: | 23 September 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £12.21 per hour |
| Additional salary information: | Competitive |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 07 October 2025 |
| Location: | Belfast, BT9 5JH |
| Company: | Sodexo Ltd |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | SDX/TP/2361181/148277 |
Summary
- Part Time
- 30 hours per week
- any 5 out of 7 days a week, as per rota
- £12.21 per hour
- Free parking on site | meal allowance while on shift | uniform provided
- Opportunities for career development
- Plus our Sodexo employee benefits package
Food Service Assistant
Belfast City, NI - Part Time (30h) - Permanent
Serve incredible food, enjoy incredible perks.
Be part of a team where great service and good food come together. Explore what Sodexo can bring to the table.Step into a role where you bring energy to every shift, serving delicious meals and brightening our customers’ day with every interaction. A role where you're paid to put a smile on someone's face. Feed our customers, and we'll fuel your career!
What you'll do:
- Assist with the preparation, presentation, and service of food in line with company standards and HACCP guidelines
- Deliver excellent customer service, creating a friendly and welcoming environment
- Carry out cashier duties accurately and efficiently
- Maintain cleanliness of counters, tables, condiments, and all service areas
- Support with stock rotation and safe storage of goods (first in, first out)
- Ensure equipment is used safely, maintained, and faults reported promptly
- Monitor and record fridge/freezer/hot cupboard temperatures in line with food safety standards
- Follow company and statutory policies including Health & Safety, food hygiene, COSHH, and emergency procedures
What you'll bring:
- Previous experience working in a catering or hospitality team (preferred but not essential)
- Excellent communication and customer service skills with a positive, approachable attitude
- Ability to adapt to a standards-driven, compliance-focused environment
- Strong teamwork skills, working effectively and professionally with colleagues and customers
- Willingness to learn, receive training, and continuously improve service standards
- High personal hygiene, professional appearance, and adherence to uniform requirements
- A proactive mindset with the ability to take initiative and handle incidents responsibly
- Reliability, flexibility, and commitment to delivering consistent, high-quality service
Why Sodexo?:
Working with Sodexo is more than a job; it’s a chance to be part of something greater.
Belong in a company and team that values you for you.
Act with purpose and have an impact through your everyday actions.
Thrive in your own way.
We also offer a range of perks, rewards and benefits for our colleagues and their families:
- Unlimited access to an online platform offering wellbeing support
- An extensive Employee Assistance Programme to help with everyday issues or life's larger problems, including legal and financial advice, support with work or personal issues impacting your wellbeing
- Access to a 24hr virtual GP Service
- Sodexo Discounts Scheme, offering great deals 24/7 across popular big-brand retailers
- Save for your future by becoming a member of the Pension Plan
- Opportunities to enable colleagues to grow and succeed throughout their career at Sodexo, including a variety of learning and development tools
- Bike to Work Scheme to help colleagues to do their bit for the environment whilst keeping fit
- Sodexo UK and Irelands enhanced benefits and leave policies
A little more about Sodexo:
At Sodexo, our purpose is to create a better every day for everyone to build a better life for all.As the global leader in services that improve the Quality of Life, we operate in 55 countries, serving over 100million consumers each day through our unique combination of On-Site Food and FM Services, Benefits & Rewards Services and Personal & Home Services.
We are committed to being an inclusive employer. We are a forces friendly employer.We welcome and encourage applications from people with a diverse variety of experiences, backgrounds and identities.We encourage our employees to get involved with our Employee Networks such as Pride, Sodexo Parents & Carers, Sodexo Disability, Ability network, SoTogether, Generations and Origins.
We’re a Disability Confident Leader employer.We’re committed to changing attitudes towards disability, and making sure disabled people have the chance to fulfil their aspirations.We run a Disability Confident interview scheme for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria for the job.
Click here to read more about what we do to promote an inclusive culture.
Ready to be part of something greater?
Belong in a team, thrive in service.
Sodexo reserves the right to close this advert early if we are in receipt of a high number of applications