Permanent Relief - Catering Assistant - Shorne Woods Country Park

Role Responsibility

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 permanent relief catering assistants for one of our key sites; Shorne Country Park. 
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 and cold food, snacks and 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 and 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.  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 permanent relief zero-hour contract. Shifts will vary between 9am to 5.30pm on a scheduled basis, adjusting seasonally. 

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: 3rd March 2024, with interviews planned for the 8th March 2024.

Contact Details

For further information regarding the vacancy please contact Kelly Ockelford, Catering Services Manager at Kelly.Ockelford@kent.gov.uk 

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, faiths and those with caring responsibilities, 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.