Hours: Full-time (36 hours per week)

Contract: Permanent (Term-Time Only)

Salary: Competitive

Closing Date: 04/09/2024

Location: Hammersmith Campus

About us:

At West London College, we are committed to championing innovation and creativity, and we invite you to join us on this journey. We welcome applicants who can share our values of Ambition, Innovation, Accountability, Collaboration and Inclusion. We have three college sites across West London: Ealing, Hammersmith, and Southall. By bringing your skills to the College, you will have a wonderful opportunity to make a difference in our students' education and future.

As a diverse College in the UK, we offer an exciting, innovative and stimulating work environment with a wide variety of employment opportunities and a culture focused on Fairness, Respect, Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Engagement.

For further information about the College, please visit our website.

About the role:

We are seeking a diligent and organized General Assistant Catering staff member to support our Catering department. You will get to work with the next generation of chefs in state-of-the-art kitchens.

You will get to observe and support the budding student chefs producing delightful dishes.

You will get to meet industry chefs sometimes famous chefs as part of the Hospitality & Catering Department being part of The Chef's Forum Academy West London College - The Chefs' Forum (thechefsforum.co.uk)

The role requires a person with good communication skills to communicate with Hospitality and Catering Lecturers and students, as well as customers who will be purchasing from the takeaway service.

The role requires someone who has some catering/kitchen experience to be able to prepare ingredients trays for practical lessons, this will allow you to develop your knowledge of ingredients and commodities, both basic and exotic ingredients.

The role is to ensure that all the kitchens adhere to the food safety regulations, and health and safety regulations and that they are fit and ready for practical lessons.

For more information please have a look at the Job Description attached which outlines the role and person specification in further detail.

What we offer:

Our team are important to us, and we offer a wide range of benefits to recognise the hard work put into supporting our College. As a member of the Support team, you will receive:
- Excellent Holiday Allowance, plus bank holidays (8) and College closure days at Christmas (3).
- Eye care vouchers
- Cycle to Work scheme
- Interest-free loans for Season tickets; Computers
- Contributory average salary with Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS)
- Continuous Professional Development Events (CPD)
- Access to Perkbox, our rewards and discount platform
- Access to the Colleges Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
- Discount at the College's on-site hair and beauty salon.

Important Information:

The safety and welfare of our learners and staff are extremely important to us, and this is why we pride ourselves on our safeguarding procedures. As part of our commitment to safeguarding, successful candidates will be subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check. Please note it is an offence to apply for this role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activities relevant to children.

For further information about our Safeguarding and Prevent policy, please view the documents attached.

We encourage and welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender reassignment or identity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnership.

To apply, please complete an application form before the closing date specified, as CVs will not be accepted.

Please ensure you also include a supporting statement as part of your application.

We reserve the right to close the submission deadline earlier than expected, so please ensure you apply as soon as possible.