Casual Catering Assistant

Role Responsibility

Kent Country Parks Seasonal Catering Assistant

This is a fantastic opportunity to join the Kent County Council, Country Parks team who provide leisure, educational, events, venue hire and café services across 9 Country Parks in Kent.

We seek casual catering assistants for one of our key sites; Shorne Country Park for weekday shifts. 

Shorne Woods Country Park is a 292 acre public open space with an on site visitor centre containing toilets, a gift shop, a function room and a very busy café.

The café caters for visitors with hot & cold food, snacks & drinks as well as a waffle and milkshake and ice cream kiosk & pizza oven in the summer months. We also cater for functions in our venue hire space for business meetings & private parties.

You will be expected to hold or be willing to work towards a Level 2 Hygiene certificate.

We are seeking a highly motivated individual with experience in customer service and catering preferred to work weekday shifts.   Shifts will vary between 9am to 5.30pm on a scheduled basis, adjusting seasonally.

The individual needs to be organised with strong customer service skills to ensure that visitors to the parks receive a quality café experience.

You will report to the Catering Services Manager who is responsible for the four Country Park café sites.

The role available is a casual zero-hour contract.

This post is considered by KCC to be a customer-facing position. The Council therefore has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English/Welsh sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements. The appropriate standards are set out in the Job Description/Person Specification.

Closing date: 12th June 2023, with interviews planned for the 20th June 2023 

Contact Details

For more information about the role, please contact Kelly Ockelford (Catering Services Manager) at Kelly.ockelford@kent.gov.uk  or telephone 03000 414747

About the Company

KCC is committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the county's working residents, encouraging applications from people of all ages, abilities, genders, sexual orientations, ethnic backgrounds and faiths, and aspires to create an inclusive workplace where everyone can be themselves at work.

Please note – if you are interested, please apply as soon as possible as the closing date for this advert may be earlier than stated should a number of suitably qualified candidates apply.