Staff Canteen Assistant – The Grand Brighton – Kitchen

As we reopen for a get ready for a busy year ahead, we are looking for a bright, bubbly, and committed individuals to join our Kitchen team as Staff Canteen Assistants, working in a COVID safe, supportive, trusted, respectful and caring environment at The Grand Hotel, Brighton.

Our Staff Canteen Assistants are responsible for serving lunch and dinner to our hard-working team, ensuring that we deliver the same personal and memorable experience to each of them as we do for our guests and everyone enjoys a fantastic rest break experience.

In a full-time role, hours of work are mainly during the day between 10:00am and 7pm, around 35 hours per week over 5 days, including weekends. We also have more flexible opportunities for part time work and are looking for additional team members to work around 20 hours over 2 to 3 days.

In return for your passion and commitment, we offer a great benefits package including complimentary gym facilities, hotel recognition scheme and incentive programme (including cinema tickets, free dinner & afternoon tea, cash rewards), discounted use of hotel facilities, workplace pension & life assurance, employee assistance programme, and a high street, local attraction & retail perks and discount programme.

We are looking for people with a good all-round knowledge of food and someone who is passionate about working with people. You will need to enjoy communicating with people, have a great eye for detail, fantastic “customer service” skills and great organisational skills. The ideal applicants will have previous experience within a Restaurant, Kitchen or Food environment.

Your main work would include:
Preparing and cleaning the areas ready for the day ahead
Collecting any items of food for use as staff food from each section of the kitchen.
Ensuring all tables are kept clear of dirty crockery and cutlery, and a high standard of cleanliness is maintained throughout the day.
Ensuring the floor is swept and mopped regularly and bins are emptied and kept clean, all rubbish correctly disposed of.
Washing up any crockery and cutlery items as necessary and clear any cooking trays or dishes to the appropriate area for washing.
From time to time, cooking/ re-heat main course dishes as required for the day to day feeding of staff on duty, lunch and dinner
From time to time, preparing food for the salad bar i.e. cold meat, salads etc.