Casual Kitchen Team Member

London, England, United Kingdom

12/11/2024

The Role

We are looking for a versatile and passionate Kitchen Team Member on a casual basis to support the Kitchen and Front of House teams. It's important you have a passion for food, a positive attitude and be able to work well in a team environment.

The role will involve assisting the head chef with food preparation, cooking, serving food to customers, taking orders, processing payments, maintaining the buffet area and promoting sales of food items.

Please note: this role will involve working flexible hours, including weekends and evenings.

Who We Are

We are one of the most famous clubs in world football, with a rich heritage and history of success – read more about our history, here.

Beyond that, we are passionate about our local community and, behind the scenes, we have a wide variety of opportunities and career paths for all. We have a very defined purpose: to act for a winning team, culture and community. We achieve this by ensuring we are courageous in the pursuit of progress, we champion our community and each other, and that we do the right thing (even when no one is looking).

Your day-to-day

• Assist our head chef - you will be supporting on food preparation and cooking alongside our head chef and kitchen team
• Drive great customer service - you'll be across front of house activity such as taking orders, processing payments but also serving food to our customers
• Sales focused mindset - you'll be promoting the sales of food items in our buffet areas
• Maintain safety and compliance - you will ensure the safety of others is considered and confidentiality is maintained at all times when work is being undertaken
• Proactively support the front of house and kitchen team - you show flexibility and a positive, can do attitude throughout to help out in other areas where required
• Champion cleanliness at all times - you will ensure all areas of kitchen space and the back of house are clean and tidy after close, ensuring facilities are ready for the next day
  
  

What We Are Looking For

• Clear passion for food - you enjoy cooking and being in a busy kitchen environment
• Excellent communication - you are a confident, clear communicator with a positive team player attitude
• Proven experience in a similar kitchen environment - you have experience in a kitchen based or similar role
• Team player - you can effectively work in a team as well as work independently, willing to support your team when required
• Thrive under pressure - you’re able to work well in a high pressure environment and effectively adapt to change and prioritise work loads accordingly
• Flexibility - you have availability to work weekdays and / or weekends
  
  

Arsenal for Everyone

Arsenal for Everyone is our commitment to promoting and embracing equality, diversity and inclusion, so that everyone connected to the club feels like they belong to the same Arsenal family. We believe that diversity of background, skills and experience drives our success on and off the pitch. 

Disability Confident Leader

We are a Disability Confident Leader. We actively welcome and encourage applications from people with disabilities and long-term health conditions. If you need disability-related adjustments to the recruitment process, please indicate this in your application.

If you are likely to meet the definition of being a ‘disabled person’ according to the Equality Act 2010, you may be eligible to apply for an interview via the Disability Confident Scheme - please indicate this in your application form below. The information you share with us about your health or disability will not be used in recruitment decisions.

Application Closing Date - Friday 20th December 2024

Please note: we reserve the right to close the position early if application volumes are particularly high. We encourage you to get your application in sooner rather than later.

Good luck!