Food and Beverage Service Assistant X3

Food and Beverage Service Assistant X3

Location: Crockham Hill, Edenbridge (TN8) , TN8 View map Salary: 9,506 per annum Date posted: 07/06/2012 18:02 Job type:Part Time Company: National Trust Contact: Emma Howard Ref: Totaljobs/IRC1318 Job ID: 53773562

About the role

Great food doesnt simply appear. And outstanding service doesnt happen by accident. Its dedicated, hardworking, conscientious people that make a good experience an unforgettable National Trust one. People like you. Joining the team here at our popular restaurant at Chartwell youll present food and serve our customers. Whether its a hot meal, a home-baked cake or a refreshing, hits-the-spot cup of tea, youll make sure everythings looking good and properly priced. Yes, it can be hard work, with lots of customers to serve, but thats the beauty of working in a great team: youre never on your own and theres always someone to turn to for support. We also appreciate that you have a life outside of work, although we do work most weekends and bank holidays we dont do split shifts or evening work here. This means that as well as enjoying a rewarding job, youll have an altogether better work-life balance.

About you

You dont enjoy standing around, and youd much rather be busy than bored. You also share our love of food, and you enjoy nothing more than empty plates and happy faces. Youll always have a smile for our customers, and nothings ever too much trouble. If youve worked in a kitchen or catering team before, thats great, and youd ideally have a Level 2 Food Hygiene Certificate. But for us, its more important that you have bags of enthusiasm and a willingness to get involved.

If trainings your cup of tea, you can have as much as you like. It could be that you want to build up your people skills, or learn about how things like stock and portion control and its impact on profit. The amount of training, and what youd like to be trained in, is completely up to you. Well even help you gain recognised professional qualifications, like a Level 2 Catering and Hospitality NVQ, if thats what you want to do.

Incredibly rewarding

From amazing places to helpful colleagues to great benefits, we want work to be a pleasure. As well as giving you free admission to all our incredible places (thats you and your family), youll enjoy a helpful 20 off at our shops, cafes and restaurants, 25 days holiday (pro rata for part-time), pension scheme and flexible working. Theres also MY Discounts, a brilliant scheme that gives you exclusive discounts with hundreds of retailers and big brands. But theyre just the benefits we can tell you about here. Theres lots more at www.nationaltrustrewardsandbenefits.org.uk

About us

We love great food here at the National Trust. Youll see it in the produce we grow. In the fresh, local, seasonal ingredients we use. In the smiles on our faces not to mention the special places we work in, places like Chartwell

Chartwell:

Chartwell is maintained and presented as Sir Winston Churchills much-loved family home. It is a country house set in a shallow-sided south-east facing valley commanding extraordinary panoramic views across the Weald of Kent to the Ashdown Forest, Sussex and the South Downs.The Estate of some 82 acres enjoys the sense of being in the very heart of the countryside although only 25 miles from central London and less than five miles from the busy M25 motorway.

Chartwell today is carefully presented as a lived-in home, creating the sense that the owners have merely gone into the garden and will soon be back.Visitors arrive from all over the world making Chartwell one of the National Trusts premier flagship properties with considerable responsibilities to ensure appropriate sustainability in all areas including conservation of the house and its collection, the buildings and countryside and its financial future.