Overview
Type: Temporary – Part Time
Salary: £10,366.24 per annum (based on a FTE of £24,294)
Closing Date: Tuesday, 23rd September 2025
Are you friendly, reliable, and passionate about providing great customer service? We are looking for a Food Service Assistant to join our dedicated catering team at Loughborough College.
This is an exciting opportunity to work in a busy, vibrant college canteen, helping to deliver a positive dining experience for our students and staff on a temporary basis of 12 month FTC. Working as part of a team, the successful candidate will deliver an exceptional standard of customer service at all times and assist in the daily running of 1909 Shop, Box Office, or Campus Kitchen.
Your responsibilities will include, serving customers, handling cash, and maintaining kitchen standards. You will have a good awareness of food allergens and will be required to communicate regularly with the chefs about allergens and ingredients.
You will also support with internal catering, stock rotation and maintaining cleanliness, kitchen hygiene and health and safety standards across all areas.
The hours are Monday to Friday 07:00 – 15:00 with the occasional Saturday when the college has an open day. If you have experience of working in a similar environment and are looking for your next challenge then please get in touch
The College is striving to attract, develop and retain the very best people by offering a motivating and inclusive workplace in which talent is truly recognised. We are committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community with the belief that diversity plays an important role in the success of our business.
We are proud to have achieved the Investor in Diversity award. We actively encourage applications who are current under-represented and where we are using positive action under the Equality Act. We welcome everyone to consider becoming a part of our journey
Alongside our commitment to your professional and personal development, we also offer a generous benefits package including:
- A competitive pension scheme
- On-site parking
- One campus facility
- Subsidised nursery fees
- Up to 25 days annual leave per year (pro-rata)
- Additional annual leave available
- Fantastic CPD and inclusive resources for development
- Well-being hours
- Opportunities of volunteering within local community and charities
We offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements and agile working where the business allows. We provide staff forums, staff working groups for sustainability, staff steering groups for Investors in Diversity and support services to support with mental health and wellbeing for staff from different backgrounds.
We are and have consistently invested in providing our learners and employees with an outstanding and unrivalled range of modern facilities and resources.
The successful candidate will be employed by The Leicestershire College a subsidiary company of Loughborough College Group. The terms and conditions of employment offered by the Leicestershire College are different to those of Loughborough College Group. Please note that employees of the Leicestershire College are based at Loughborough College Group.
Kindly be advised that we are unable to provide skilled worker sponsorship for this position. Applicants must have the right to work in the country without the need for sponsorship.
If you require any support to apply for this job, please email recruitment@loucoll.ac.uk
IMPORTANT: Before applying for this role, please make sure you have the right to work in the country where the role is based. Unless it clearly stipulates within in the job advert above that the hiring company is looking to or able to sponsor applicants it is deemed that the hiring employer will only consider applications from those able to comply with and work in the country where the role is based.
