About us
Immediate start
Great Catering and Hospitality is at the heart of brilliant Residential Outdoor Activity programmes. We are looking for catering assistants to join our catering catering team, ensuring our customers are well fed so that they can enjoy active days outdoors.
Portland Outdoor Centre provides residential outdoor experiences to school and youth groups and can accommodate approximate 140 visitors at a time. We want to provide tasty and nutritious meals that our fuel our groups through their stay.
The successful applicant will enjoy interacting with people, young and old and provide welcoming hospitality for all. Ideally they will have experience in a commercial catering operation maintaining high food quality and hygiene standards.
As part of a small team the catering team may also assist with some housekeeping, particularly on change over days when the whole staff team reset the accommodation for the next group.
Job Role
Position: Seasonal until October 2026. 25 hours a week on average. Working mornings or afternoon/early evenings each day.
Casual hours also available
Term time only option available
The successful candidate will:
Look after our Customers
- Help us provide excellent hospitality at all times to our customers
- Help to prepare, cook and present food and drinks quickly and efficiently, establishing and meeting in house standards.
- Manage dietary requirements.
Be part of the team and the bigger team
- Support the catering manager with food ordering, stocking levels & monitoring.
- Support the catering manager to ensure that the kitchen operations comply with all the company's and statutory requirements including Health and Safety at Work Act and Food Hygiene Regulations.
- Work and help others to work, safely around kitchen equipment.
- Have a flexible approach to working hours.
- Support the wider work of the outdoor centre to ensure that our customers are looked after.
Qualifications and Experience
The ideal candidate will have a background in catering and be passionate about producing wholesome food for groups.
Hours
Key for this role is to ensure the catering for our residential groups (predominantly) between March and October. Holidays are likely to be restricted to predominantly school holiday periods.
We serve a cooked breakfast, packed lunch and cooked evening meal. We aim to organise shifts each day for the catering team so that people are either working the morning shift approx 06:30am to 12:00 am or the evening shift approx. 3:30pm to 8:00pm with some hours each week assisting with the general housekeeping as well.
Most of the work is Monday to Friday with a few Saturdays, and Sunday mornings in the peak season.
Job Types: Part-time, Contract
Contract length: 3 months
Pay: £13.00 per hour
Experience:
- Catering: 1 year (preferred)
Work Location: In person
