Catering Assistant

Catering Assistant

YHA Cambridge, 97 Tenison Road, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB1 2DN

Fixed term, flexible contract - May 2026 to February 2027

Minimum 25 hours per week

£12.71 per hour plus £1.20 per hour Local Living Allowance (applies to all, including those under the age of 21)

Responsibilities

While this role primarily focuses on the catering aspects of our hostel, you may also be called upon to assist in other hostel departments.

We are a friendly team and will provide the training required for you to undertake the role. However, there is plenty for you to get stuck into from day one, including:

• Ensuring adherence to food hygiene standards in food storage, preparation, and delivery.
• Upholding health and safety regulations, ensuring timely and accurate completion of kitchen checks.
• Taking pride in the preparation, presentation, and service of high-quality food.
• Recording food wastage in accordance with your hostel's procedures, focusing on minimizing waste to maximize profit.
• Assisting in the preparation of food and serving food and drinks with genuine warmth, hospitality, and pride that will influence more sales.

Qualifications

To provide this service to our guests we are looking for the following qualities in our Catering Team Members:

• Experience of working face to face with customers
• Experience of working in hospitality or customer service (desirable)
• Food Safety Level 2 Certificate (desirable) - otherwise will be required to complete within hostel
• Experience of working in a team - can help others to achieve a common goal
• Excellent timekeeping, with flexibility to cover different shifts - punctual, can work to deadlines
• Ability to manage varying pressures, include peaks in workload demands - can prioritise, able to deal with conflicting duties
• Basic IT skills (ideally Microsoft Office) - able to use Microsoft Word, Outlook, Excel
• Knowledge and understanding of the core purpose of YHA - what YHA does and how we do it
• Demonstration of our HEART values - they're part of everything we do, and we look for team members who bring them to life in their everyday work

Benefits

• 10 nights free hostel stays per year for you and up to 3 friends or family
• Access to YHA's staff discount and cash back portal
• Free YHA Membership each year
• Access to support via our Employee Assistance Program

Safety Note

All relevant checks are in place to ensure safeguarding and legal requirements of safer recruitment are adhered to. We do reserve the right to close this advertisement early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications.