Food Services Assistant - Hospitality

THE POST – Food Services Assistant (Hospitality)

An excellent opportunity is now available at the University of the West of Scotland within the Campus Services Catering team.

We are seeking a Food Services Assistant to join our existing team working within our Paisley campus delivering hospitality across the campus.

Working within a small team, the Food Services Assistant will be responsible for providing excellent service and delivery of a wide range of events. These can include everything from the day to day hospitality provision, through to large scale conferences and formal dinners.

The successful candidate will:

• Be a positive, enthusiastic team player with a love for customer service and taking pride in their work.
• Have previous experience within a hospitality environment, which would be an advantage,
• Have a willingness to learn new skills.

About us

University of the West of Scotland is one of Scotland’s largest and most dynamic modern universities. Our reach across the country, together with our London campus, means that UWS is a significant force in global knowledge creation, innovation, and a leading provider of undergraduate, postgraduate and research degree education. Our degrees provide students with a transformational experience; equipping them with highly sought-after graduate skills that set them up for global success in world-leading sectors, industries and businesses.

With cutting-edge courses, modern pedagogy and practical knowledge, we enable our students and staff to experience the joy of learning, teaching, research and innovation, and apply their knowledge for the benefit of others.

Our professional services teams are the backbone of UWS, providing robust and innovative solutions to support the vast range of work across learning and teaching, and research and innovation. You will join a supportive and dedicated team, playing a key role in a range of work that will help drive forward our ambition to deliver world-leading research, and graduates who will design, shape and build a new future. Find out more about our Professional Services teams.

We offer our staff a caring and supportive environment, across five campuses, and a competitive benefits package which includes:

The benefits we can offer you include:

• 24 days annual leave (rising to 27 days after 5 years services), plus a further 12 days for public/university holidays
• 19.3% employer’s pension contribution including death in service benefits on joining the pension scheme
• A flexible approach to working pattern and work life balance
• Operating predominantly day time shifts across a Monday to Friday shift pattern with some additional evening and weekend work by arrangement.
• No split shifts.
• Overtime is paid for any work carried out over and above contracted hours.
  • Opportunities to earn overtime on an ad hoc basis by supporting events and other commercial activity
• Employee discount scheme across 3,500 retailers
• Fitness facilities across our campuses
• Access to a range of health and wellbeing resources including Occupational Health, Physiotherapy and access to our Employee Assistance Programme
• Professional, career and research development opportunities.

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