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Job title: Catering Assistant
Reporting to: Lead Chef
Location: The Greenhouse Business Centre, Annfield Plain, DH9
Salary:
* Under 21: £10.00 per hour
* 21 and over: National Living Wage (£12.21 per hour)
Join Our Friendly Café Team!
The Greenhouse Business Centre in Annfield Plain is home to a thriving community of local businesses, offering modern offices, meeting spaces, and a welcoming business lounge. At the heart of it all is our Greenhouse Café — serving freshly prepared breakfasts, lunches, and refreshments to our tenants and visitors throughout the day, as well as providing catering for meetings and business events.
We’re looking for a Catering Assistant to join our small, friendly team and help us deliver great food and warm service every day.
What You’ll Do
As a Catering Assistant, you’ll play a key role in both the kitchen and front of house. Working alongside our Lead Chef, you’ll:
* Prepare and serve sandwiches, soups, lunches, and hot drinks (including barista coffee)
* Welcome and serve customers with a smile
* Help prepare food for meetings and business catering orders
* Handle cash and card payments accurately
* Keep the kitchen and café areas clean, safe, and well-organised
* Support with washing up, deliveries, and other general duties
What We’re Looking For
You don’t need previous catering experience — just a positive attitude, reliability, and enthusiasm for great food and customer service.
We’ll give you all the training you need to succeed.
You’ll fit right in if you are:
* Friendly, helpful, and enjoy working with people
* A team player who’s happy to get stuck in
* Reliable and take pride in doing a good job
* Willing to learn and follow food hygiene and safety standards
Why Join Us?
* Supportive, welcoming team environment
* Full training provided
* Varied role combining kitchen and front-of-house work
* Opportunity to develop new skills in a professional catering setting
* Daytime hours (no late nights!)
If you’re looking for a friendly workplace where your contribution really matters — and where you can be part of a café that brings people together — we’d love to hear from you.
Closing Date: Midnight on Thursday 30th October 2025
Please note, should we receive a high volume of applications, we may look to close the role early, therefore we recommend an early application.
Interested?
If you would like to find out more, please click the apply button. You will be directed to our website to complete your application for this position.
Make yourself at home
We want you to be yourself at Groundwork and we value everything that makes you unique. We recognise and celebrate your difference and together we make Groundwork a special and great place to work. As a Disability Confident employer we offer a guaranteed interview to applicants with a disability who meet the essential criteria for the role.
At Groundwork we ensure that we provide a safe environment for adults, children and young people to take part in any activity or service that we organise. We are committed to creating a culture that promotes safeguarding and the welfare of all children, young people and adults at risk.?Our safer recruitment practices support this by ensuring that there is a consistent and comprehensive process of obtaining, collating, analysing and evaluating information from and about candidates to ensure that all the people we appoint are suitable to work with our children, young people and adults.
This role is not eligible for UK Visa Sponsorship – the successful applicant will need to have a pre-existing Right to Work in the UK in order to be offered an employment contract.
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