At a Glance
- Tasks: Prepare and serve food, maintain cleanliness, and provide excellent customer service.
- Company: Join a leading catering team at B&Q with a focus on quality and teamwork.
- Benefits: Flexible benefits, virtual GP access, financial wellbeing support, and high street discounts.
- Other info: Opportunities for recognition and career development in an inclusive workplace.
- Why this job: Gain valuable experience in catering while enjoying a supportive and dynamic work environment.
- Qualifications: Previous catering experience is a plus; training provided for food hygiene and safety.
The predicted salary is between 12.74 - 12.74 £ per hour.
Contract: Permanent
Type of employment: Full time
Hours: 25 hours per week
Rate of Pay: £12.74 per hour
Shift pattern: Monday to Friday – Mornings
Location: B&Q, Rutherford Drive, Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, England NN8 6XA
Overview
We are looking for a Catering Assistant who will deliver excellent service standards, while meeting SLA agreements and adhering to cleaning schedules.
Responsibilities
- Prepare and maintain dining and service areas, including furniture, trolleys, and cleaning equipment.
- Serve food in correct portions and wash dishes, cutlery, and catering equipment.
- Clean all catering areas daily and follow health and safety standards.
- Handle cash collection, banking, and maintain records and procedures.
- Communicate effectively with customers, managers, and colleagues to deliver excellent service.
Qualifications
- Previous catering experience in a similar environment (desirable).
- Basic Food Hygiene and Health & Safety certificates (training provided if not held).
- Adequate numeracy, literacy, and communication skills.
- Passion for customer service and ability to work independently and in a team.
- Adaptable, detail-oriented, and confident with strong organisational and time management skills.
Benefits
Our market-leading flexible benefits scheme provides benefits that suit your lifestyle. We have a virtual GP on hand for you and members of your household. You can get expert advice by video or phone without leaving your home. We offer financial wellbeing assistance through our Salary Finance scheme, which allows you to access 50% of your earned pay before payday for a small fee. Salary Finance also offers competitive loans. Through our flexible benefits platform, Choices, you can customise your benefits to best suit your lifestyle, including dental insurance, dining cards, coffee clubs, technology products and more. You also get access to high street discounts from thousands of retailers, gyms and more through our MiDeals platform and a cycle‑to‑work scheme. Life cover is the greater of your equivalent annual salary or a minimum of £10,000, and we offer a save‑as‑you‑earn scheme and a Mitie Matching Share Plan. We award employees with Mitie Stars recognition, with cash prizes available monthly and the chance to win a top prize of £10,000. We provide a range of training and development opportunities.
Equal Opportunity and Inclusion
We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or long-term condition (for example dyslexia, anxiety, autism, a mobility condition or hearing loss) and need us to make any reasonable adjustments, changes or do anything differently during the recruitment process, please let us know by emailing at.
Contact Details:
Mitie Cleaning & Hygiene Services Recruitment Team
