Job title: Catering Assistant

Reporting to: Lead Chef

Location: Annfield Plain, DH9

Salary:

• Under 21: £10.00 per hour
• 21 and over: National Living Wage (£12.21 per hour)

Join This Friendly Café Team!

Our client's Business Centre in Annfield Plain is home to a thriving community of local businesses, offering modern offices, meeting spaces, and a welcoming business lounge. At the heart of it all is their Café — serving freshly prepared breakfasts, lunches, and refreshments to tenants and visitors alike throughout the day, as well as providing catering for meetings and business events.

They are looking for a Catering Assistant to join their small, friendly team and help them deliver great food and warm service every day.

What You’ll Do

As a Catering Assistant, you’ll play a key role in both the kitchen and front of house. Working alongside the Lead Chef, you will:

• Prepare and serve sandwiches, soups, lunches, and hot drinks (including barista coffee)
• Welcome and serve customers with a smile
• Help prepare food for meetings and business catering orders
• Handle cash and card payments accurately
• Keep the kitchen and café areas clean, safe, and well-organised
• Support with washing up, deliveries, and other general duties

What This Employer Is Looking For

You don’t need previous catering experience — just a positive attitude, reliability, and enthusiasm for great food and customer service.

They will give you all the training you need to succeed.

You’ll fit right in if you are:

• Friendly, helpful, and enjoy working with people
• A team player who’s happy to get stuck in
• Reliable and take pride in doing a good job
• Willing to learn and follow food hygiene and safety standards

Why Join This Employer?

• Supportive, welcoming team environment
• Full training provided
• Varied role combining kitchen and front-of-house work
• Opportunity to develop new skills in a professional catering setting
• Daytime hours (no late nights!)

If you’re looking for a friendly workplace where your contribution really matters — and where you can be part of a café that brings people together — they’d love to hear from you.

Closing Date: Midnight on Thursday 30th October 2025

Please note, should a high volume of applications be received, this employer may look to close the role early, therefore they recommend completing your application early.

Interested?

To find out more information, please click the apply button. You will be taken to a simple CHM Recruit form and then redirected to complete your application for this position.

Make yourself at home

The employer wants you to be yourself and they value everything that makes you unique. They recognise and celebrate your difference and together you can make the organisation a special and great place to work. As a Disability Confident employer they offer a guaranteed interview to applicants with a disability who meet the essential criteria for the role.

The charity ensures that they provide a safe environment for adults, children and young people to take part in any activity or service that they organise. They are committed to creating a culture that promotes safeguarding and the welfare of all children, young people and adults at risk. Their safer recruitment practices support this by ensuring that there is a consistent and comprehensive process of obtaining, collating, analysing and evaluating information from and about candidates to ensure that all the people they appoint are suitable to work with children, young people and adults.

This role is not eligible for UK Visa Sponsorship – the successful applicant will need to have a pre-existing Right to Work in the UK in order to be offered an employment contract.

No agencies please.