Catering Assistant - 6991

Job Title: Catering Assistant

Contract: Full time, Permanent (35 hours per week) & Part time (20 hours per week), Permanent

Salary: £23,500-£26,950 per annum (Full Time Equivalent)

Location: Cambridge, Whittlesford (on occasion for full time employees)

Availability required on site across all shift patterns (07:00-14:30, 07:30-15:00, 08:00-15:30, 09:00-16:30)

Are you passionate about great food and even better service? Join our vibrant Catering team and help deliver a high quality hospitality experience to our staff and visitors.

We are Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a world leading academic publisher and assessment organisation and a proud part of the University of Cambridge.

About the role

As a Catering Assistant, you'll be at the heart of our hospitality service preparing food, maintaining hygiene standards, and ensuring every customer interaction is a positive one.

This is a hands on, customer facing role where no two days are the same. You'll work across our catering areas and events, supporting a team that's known for its warmth, professionalism, and dedication to excellence.

Please note: To be considered, you must be available to work across all shift patterns listed above.

Responsibilities

• Deliver excellent customer service and high quality food presentation.
• Support food preparation and maintain hygiene and cleanliness standards.
• Operate tills and cashless systems.
• Assist with hospitality events and ensure consistency across all catering services.
• Comply with food safety, health and safety, and internal policies.

About You

As a Catering Assistant, you'll be a team player with a positive, can do attitude and a genuine passion for customer service. Ideally, you'll have:

• Experience in a high volume catering or hospitality environment
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• A Level 2 Food hygiene qualification (or willingness to obtain within 1 month)
• Good understanding of food safety standards

For a detailed job description, please refer to the link at the bottom of the advert on our careers site.

We are a Disability Confident (DC) employer that is committed to equality and inclusion ensuring our recruitment process is accessible to all. The DC scheme's Offer of an Interview commitment applies to applicants who opt in, disclose a disability or a long term health condition, and best meet the minimum criteria for the role. In instances where interviewing all qualifying candidates is not practicable, we prioritise those who best meet the minimum criteria, as we would for applicants who do not have a disability or long term health condition.

Rewards and benefits

We will support you to be at your best in work and to live well outside of it. In addition to competitive salaries, we offer a world class, flexible rewards package, featuring family friendly and planet friendly benefits including:

• 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Private medical and Permanent Health Insurance
• Discretionary annual bonus
• Group personal pension scheme
• Life assurance up to 4 annual salary
• Green travel schemes

Ready to pursue your potential? Apply now.

We aim to support candidates by making our interview process clear and transparent. The closing date for all applications will be 21 March 2026.

We aim to support candidates by making our interview process clear and transparent. If you are shortlisted and progress through the stages, you can expect:

• A paid trial shift
• A brief face to face interview

If you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process due to a disability or a long term health condition, there will be an opportunity for you to inform us via the online application form. We will do our best to accommodate your needs.

Please note that successful applicants will be subject to satisfactory background checks, including DBS, due to working in a regulated industry.

We are committed to an equitable recruitment process. As such, applications must be submitted via our official online application procedure. Please refrain from sending your CV directly to our recruiters. If you experience technical difficulties or require additional support with submitting your online application, contact the Recruiter.

Please note, Cambridge University Press & Assessment is unable to sponsor this role under the Skilled Worker Visa route as it does not meet the minimum skill requirements.

Why join us

Joining us is your opportunity to pursue potential. You will belong to a collaborative team that is exploring new and better ways to serve students, teachers and researchers across the globe - for the benefit of individuals, society and the world. Sharing our mission will inspire your own growth, development and progress, in an environment which embraces difference, change and aspiration.

Cambridge University Press & Assessment is committed to being a place where anyone can enjoy a successful career, where it is safe to speak up, and where we learn continuously to improve together. We welcome applications from all candidates, regardless of demographic characteristics (age, disability, educational attainment, ethnicity, gender, marital status, neurodiversity, religion, sex, gender identity and sexual identity), cultural, or social class/background.

We believe better outcomes come through diversity of thought, background and approach. We welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and communities, actively seeking to employ people from a wide range of different communities.