Catering Assistant

🔒 Confidential Employer
Posted 19 March 2026
LOCATION
Dudley
TYPE
Full-time
LEVEL
Entry-level
CATEGORY
Hospitality
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SKILLS

Customer Service Food Hygiene Health & Safety Communication Skills Teamwork Cash Handling

FULL DESCRIPTION

Catering Assistant

- Ref: 87602 - Location: Dudley - Employment: Full time

Job Title: Catering Assistant Pay: £12.21 p/h Contract: Permanent Type of Employment: Full Time Hours: 25 hours per week Location: Dudley Hospitals - Dudley - Russells Hall Hospital

At [Employer hidden — view at passion-project.co.uk] we bring out the best in places. Unlocking their potential so that everyone looks forward to using them and can do their best work in them. From offices and shopping centres to hospitals and airports, we create better places for the communities we serve to thrive.

We're looking for a Catering Assistant who will deliver excellent service standards, while meeting SLA agreements and adhering to cleaning schedules. Working a variety of shifts covering a weekday, evening and weekend rota.

Role 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.

What we're looking for:

  • 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.

What we offer you:

  • Access to MiDeals discounts, cycle-to-work scheme, and lifestyle benefits via Choices platform.
  • Virtual GP, Salary Finance options, and life cover.
  • Recognition through [Employer hidden] Stars, training, and career development opportunities.

Our market-leading flexible benefits scheme provides you with benefits that suit your lifestyle.

We have a virtual GP on hand for you and members of your household. So you can get expert advice by video or phone without having to leave your home. We offer financial wellbeing assistance through our Salary Finance scheme. For example, you could access 50% of your earned pay before payday for a small fee. Salary Finance also offers competitive loans.

When you join us, we’ll give you a link to our flexible benefits platform, Choices. This gives you the chance to customise your benefits to best suit your lifestyle. You can choose from dental insurance, dining cards, coffee clubs, buying technology products at an affordable cost and much more!

We give you access to high street discounts from thousands of well-known retailers, gyms and more through our MiDeals platform. And we have a cycle-to-work scheme.

Life cover is the greater of your equivalent annual salary or a minimum of £10,000 - giving peace of mind for your dependants. We also offer a save-as-you-earn scheme, and a [Employer hidden] Matching Share Plan (you could even be awarded free shares in [Employer hidden]).

We award our employees with [Employer hidden] Stars as recognition for their hard work. There are cash prizes up for grabs each month and at the end of the year there’s a chance to scoop a top prize of £10,000!

Our success is a direct result of the experience and quality of our people. Progressing your career is therefore a top priority for us. We offer a diverse variety of training and development avenues via a wide selection of learning resources to suit you.

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 .

Since 1987, [Employer hidden]’s 80,000 employees have been maintaining companies globally. We are the UK’s leading facilities management and professional services company, and our clients range from household names in banking, critical government sites as well as hospitals and schools.

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