Contract Restaurant Service Assistant – A2Dominion Housing Group Ltd.
Job Description
Full job description
Contract: Permanent
Hours: 16 – 18 hours per week Mon-Fri
Salary: £12.60 per hour
Location: Onsite at Charles Clore Court, Reading, BerkshireAbout A2Dominion
We are a UK housing association committed to a new vision – providing homes people love to live in.
With over 38,000 homes in management across London and southern England, we provide a wide range of homes for social, affordable, and private rent, specialist services, as well as homes for sale and shared ownership.
Our 70,000+ customers come from a diverse range of backgrounds with varying levels of income. We’re here to provide them all with homes that are safe, high quality and sustainable.
And with social housing roots going back eight decades, we continue to ensure that every penny of profit is reinvested into our charitable social purpose – delivering more homes and better services for customers.
About the role
To provide a comprehensive catering service, ensuring we deliver high quality meals to clients living in sheltered accommodation and/or the wider community. This role is to work in an extra care setting operating within the catering service to deliver excellent customer service.
Key responsibilities
- Responsible for checking resident food profiles for allergies, preferences and IDDSI rating. Adhering to Company and Environmental Health Standards.
- Responsible for upholding the cleanliness of all aspects within the kitchen, storerooms and kitchen office. Washing uniforms on-site and maintaining a tidy, extensive supply.
- Assisting the Chef Manager with deliveries. Stock rotation and removing any out-of-date items. Communicating when products running low.
- Carry out Health, Safety and Food Hygiene standards checks as directed by A2Dominion Catering Standards and ensuring that all practices meet the statutory regulations, including the Registered Homes Act 1984, and A2Dominion’s Health and Safety policy.
- Supporting the Chef Manager in preparing and responding to inspections or audits by external authorities and other bodies to fulfil reporting requirements.
- Responsible for arranging and managing mandatory training requirements set by A2Dominion. Serving meals to residents within the restaurant
More about You
The following are desirable:
– Educated to GCSE level or equivalent in Maths & English (Grades A* – C)
- Cooking experience desirable
- Knowledge of Extra Care home environment
- Ability to engage with elderly vulnerable customers and their families
- You won’t necessarily have experience in this sector, as we recognise that transferrable skills and experience are just as valuable.
- We are specifically looking for candidates with the right skills and attitudes, who will demonstrate and promote our values of caring by nature, working better together and thinking for tomorrow.
Please attach a tailored CV for this role, ensuring it highlights relevant experience and provides explanations for any employment gaps.
Choosing us is easyAs an employee of A2Dominion, we want you to feel rewarded and have a choice of flexible benefits, salary exchange benefits, and rewards and discounts that work for you, wherever you are in your life.
We offer a wide range of staff benefits. For this role, these include:
- 25 days’ holiday (Plus Bank Holidays) increasing up to 28 days with 3 years of service
- Up to 8% contributory pension
- Flexible working
- Investment in your learning and development
In addition, all permanent and fixed-term employees receive a generous annual allowance of up to £300 to use towards health and lifestyle benefits for both you and your family.
We also operate a Cycle to Work Scheme whereby employees have access to cycling equipment throughout the year and can pay via monthly salary deductions.
A2Dominion Group is a Disability Confident Employer which means that we are committed to employing disabled people and will: actively look to attract and recruit disabled people, provide a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process, offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the job, be flexible with assessing people so disabled applicants have the best opportunity to demonstrate that they can do the job, make reasonable adjustments as required.
At A2Dominion Group, we recognise the positive value of diversity, promote equality and inclusivity in our hiring processes. We always aim to recruit the person who is most suited to the job and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds – men and women, people of all ages, sexual orientations, nationalities, religions, and beliefs.
If you require a reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process, please contact our Resourcing Team to request: [email protected]
Meeting the role requirements
We recognise that some females will only apply for a role if they meet 100% of role requirements. If this sounds like you, we’d still encourage you to apply and also to arrange a call with one of our Resourcing Team to discuss your application further at [email protected]
A2Dominion are proud to be a family friendly employer
Everyone is welcome at A2Dominion Group. We know that equality, diversity, and inclusivity make us better. We embrace the unique contributions of our people and seek to create a workplace where everyone feels like they belong. Find out why our people love working with us.
Join us at A2Dominion, where your expertise will be integral to our recovery journey, creating lasting positive changes in the lives of our customers. If you possess the right motivation and drive to contribute to our recovery and change initiatives, we invite you to apply and be a crucial part of our team.
Closing date for this role is Friday 30th May 2025, we reserve the right to close this role upon appointment of a successful candidate.