Our benefits
We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits in addition to the basics like annual leave, sick pay, pension and mileage…
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A comprehensive wellbeing package to cover all aspects of wellbeing, both in and out of work, which can also be accessed by your family
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Buy up to 4 weeks additional annual leave (pro-rata) through our salary sacrifice scheme
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Take your bank holidays flexibly to better suit your personal circumstances
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Make Additional Voluntary Contributions (Shared AVCs) to your pension with tax and National Insurance savings
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Access to development opportunities, apprenticeships and qualified coaches to support your personal and professional growth
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Paid volunteering hours each year so you can make a positive impact on our community during your normal working day
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Access to Peer Support Groups through our IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network
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Opportunities to nominate and receive Employee Recognition Awards
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An Our Cambs Rewards account, giving you access to in-store and online discounts as well as our Car Lease and Cycle to Work schemes
Take a look at our Employment Benefits Brochure attached to this advert to find out more.
About the role
Grafham Water Centre is looking to appoint a Centre Hospitality Assistant. The primary mission of the Centre Hospitality Assistant is to deliver a great customer service by ensuring safe and high-quality standards. This is achieved by performing various tasks including general cleaning, kitchen setup and preparation, ensuring food safety, partaking in food production & packaging, cleaning, completing actions outlined on paperwork and in our systems.
The Centre Hospitality Assistant is a vital link with our customers, and therefore, your role as Centre Hospitality Assistant is important to the successful running of our Centre. This is a fantastic opportunity for an engaging, reliable, passionate, and hardworking Centre Hospitality Assistant to work within our Centre. Please refer to the attached Person Specification for more details on the criteria expected for this role.
About us
Grafham Water Centre is a popular Outdoor Learning Centre based on the shores of Grafham Water reservoir in Perry, Cambridgeshire. We are a lively and busy residential centre catering for a wide range of school and youth groups as well as offering courses for both adults and children. We also cater for corporate and conference bookings. At the heart of all our work is our vision to change young people’s lives.
Reports to: Hospitality Supervisor
Appointment to this post will be subject to the outcome of an Enhanced Disclosure obtained through the Disclosure and Barring Service. The Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
If you have any questions or for an informal conversation about the role please contact [email protected]
Appointment to this post will be subject to the outcome of an Enhanced Disclosure obtained through the Disclosure and Barring Service. The Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
What will you be doing?
Overall purpose of the job
The Centre Hospitality Assistant will maintain a high standard of cleanliness and hygiene throughout the centre, offering excellent hospitality and customer service. They will assist in the preparation and serving of food and refreshments, as well as carrying out any other tasks required so the centre can deliver a high-quality service to customers.
Your duties will include:
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To provide attentive service to all visitors
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To ensure that all service areas are set up to the required standard
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To provide catering services to include, breakfast, lunch, dinner and events
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To ensure that all meeting rooms are fit for purpose in accordance with our meeting room standards
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To initiate good customer service and ensure premium service is upheld
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To co-operate with all catering staff and undertake such duties to ensure an efficient and effective service is always delivered
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To project a willing and helpful attitude to employees and visitors
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Assist with ensuring all areas are maintained in a clean & tidy condition, in accordance with the company’s Hygiene, Health and Safety policies and procedures.
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To maintain the required standards of personal hygiene and food handling practices, in accordance with the Food and Hygiene policy and current legislation.
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To report any faults as swiftly as possible to the designated person/s.
About us
Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.
Our four values are central to our culture, driving everything we do.
We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we firmly believe benefits our colleagues, the organisation and our communities. If you don’t meet every single requirement in the job role but think this could be you, please don’t be put off. We are committed to building a workplace that is compassionate and inclusive as well as diverse, so if you think you could be a good candidate for this role please consider applying and speak to the recruiting manager if you have any questions.
Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, along with our employee network 'IDEAL' and self-organised peer support groups help us to foster an inclusive, supportive and safe working environment where people feel valued, respected, and empowered. We collect relevant diversity data for monitoring as part of the recruitment process to understand the diversity of our applicants and monitor any trends throughout the recruitment processes so that we can take meaningful action.
We are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. We fully support providing reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process, as well as when you join us, and we encourage candidates to contact the Hiring Manager, whose details can be found in the advert, to discuss any adjustment needs. Through a Guaranteed Interview Scheme, we will offer an interview to all applicants who disclose a disability and meet the essential criteria for a job vacancy. On your application form you can indicate you are disabled. Some examples of reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process could include additional time to complete an assessment or printing a document on pastel coloured paper with larger font size and line spacing. We would value talking about what might be possible to enable you to join us and thrive, so if there is something that would help you to do your best during your journey with us, please get in touch.
Visit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion.
https://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/council/jobs-and-careers
