Food Service Assistant

Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom

7/29/2025

About Us

Vertas is one of the fastest growing multi-services facilities management companies in the UK. Our passion is driven by putting our colleagues and customers at the heart of everything we do.

Hourly Rate

£12.26 per hour

Type of vacancy

Permanent

Work pattern

Part Time - Term Time Only

Number of posts

1

Hours per week

20

Job Description / Person Specification

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Interview date

11/08/2025

Work Base

Retford Oaks Academy, Retford, DN22 7NJ

Working Arrangements

School Based

Closing Date

06 August 2025 23:55

An opportunity has arisen to work for the "Silver Accredited Food for Life, School Catering Service” in this busy school environment.

Working under the guidance of the School Chef, your key responsibilities are general food preparation, serving meals, washing up, cleaning duties and the manual handling of tables and chairs. You will need to understand the importance of health and hygiene and have a positive attitude to work in a fast paced working environment.

This role is a dream for those of you who want to work within the catering industry but haven’t been to catering college or obtained any qualifications. If you’ve got ambition and drive, you can train on the job and take advantage of our development programmes.

Values And Behaviours Of Candidates

• Great customer service and communication skills.
• Passion for sustainability.
• Team player providing an excellent service across the Vertas Group.
• The ability to make the best decisions with Vertas in mind.
• Listening and responding to colleagues, customers and suppliers to achieve the best outcome.
• Flexibility to adapt and respond to change in a growing organisation.
  
  

We want enthusiastic individuals with a positive working attitude to join our team of 4,000 colleagues across the UK. Vertas Group are an inclusive and equal opportunities employer who believe that our people power what we do. We aim to ensure that our workforce reflects the diversity of the communities in which it operates.

The Vertas Group is committed to ensuring the safeguarding of children and following legislation, guidance, policies and advice on this at all times

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all employees to share this commitment.

Offers of employment are subject to the following checks (where relevant):

• Children's barred list
• Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
• Medical suitability to work with children
• Right to work
• Satisfactory references
• Suitability to work with children
  
  

This role is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 and therefore you must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings.

Vertas Group operate a Guaranteed Interview Scheme.