Catering Staff Required - Contract Options - Reading

\n ABOUT THE ROLE \n As a Bank Food & Beverage Assistant at Barchester Healthcare, you'll play an important role in creating a warm, welcoming and enjoyable dining experience for our residents, families and visitors. From serving meals and refreshments to ensuring dining areas are clean, comfortable and inviting, you'll help make every mealtime a positive experience. \n Working closely with our hospitality and kitchen teams, you'll support the day-to-day delivery of food and beverage services throughout the home. Whether you're preparing dining areas, serving residents or assisting with kitchen duties, your friendly approach and attention to detail will help us deliver the high standards we're known for. \n As a Bank Food & Beverage Assistant, you'll enjoy the flexibility of working hours that fit around your lifestyle while making a meaningful difference to residents' daily lives. \n ABOUT YOU \n To join us as a Bank Food & Beverage Assistant, you'll need: \n Experience in a hospitality, catering or customer service environment \n A friendly, caring and professional approach \n Good communication and teamwork skills \n An understanding of food hygiene and health and safety practices \n A passion for delivering excellent customer service \n The ability to work efficiently in a busy environment \n You'll enjoy working with people and take pride in providing an outstanding experience for residents and visitors alike. \n REWARDS PACKAGE \n As well as competitive pay, you can look forward to a role that offers true flexibility and plenty of opportunities to develop your skills and experience. \n If you'd like a rewarding role where you can make a real difference while enjoying flexible working opportunities, we'd love to hear from you.

At Cosy Club Reading, you can expect casual days, vibrant evenings, and weekends where we're the life and soul of the party! From brunch and coffee to dinner and drinks, our guests join us for an experience like no other.

Senior Buyer – Ingredients and Raw Materials Procurement Location: Berkshire Salary: £40-50,000 + benefits + career opportunities + CPD (CIPS) A highly respected and commercially ambitious UK food manufacturing business is seeking an exceptional Senior Buyer to take ownership of a significant portfolio of raw material and ingredient categories, and to play a hands-on role in shaping how procurement operates as the function grows. This isn’t a role where you’ll be handed a rulebook and be asked to turn the handle. The processes, tools and ways of working are evolving so, you’ll have genuine influence over how the function operates, not just what you buy. The Opportunity Reporting into the Purchasing Manager, you'll take ownership of a portfolio of raw material and ingredient categories (with some exposure to packaging), managing supplier relationships, cost, and continuity of supply while identifying opportunities to add value beyond price. You'll work closely with technical, NPD, planning, finance and commercial teams to make sure procurement decisions support the wider business. This is a genuinely broad role. Unlike larger FMCG businesses where category ownership is narrow, here you'll get exposure across the full purchasing life cycle; strategy, negotiation, supplier development, risk, and data, which makes it a strong fit for someone who wants breadth and the chance to build something rather than maintain an existing machine. What You’ll Be Doing • Own and develop category strategies for allocated raw material and ingredient spend, identifying risks and value opportunities, • Lead negotiations with UK and international suppliers, balancing cost, quality and service, • Manage supplier performance and hold suppliers to account through structured reviews, • Interpret and work with detailed, sometimes messy or incomplete procurement and market data to inform decisions, • Monitor commodity and ingredient markets, forecasting price movement and market risk, • Support due diligence on supplier provenance, ethical sourcing and compliance (including modern slavery and traceability requirements), • Contribute to the business's sustainability and ESG agenda through supplier and category decisions, • Build strong cross-functional relationships and confidently influence stakeholders, including where views differ, • Support the wider transformation of the procurement function from operational purchasing to strategic category management What We’re Looking For • At least 2–3 years' experience owning category strategies (not purely transactional or operational buying), ideally within raw materials or ingredients, • FMCG, food & drink, pharmaceutical or household goods background all considered, the key is category ownership experience, not a specific sector, • Comfortable working with detailed, complex or imperfect data, and confident drawing conclusions from it without getting stuck in analysis for its own sake, • A strong, evidenced negotiator who can protect commercial interests professionally, • Curious and creative, someone who looks beyond the obvious answer and enjoys solving problems, • Confident managing stakeholders and comfortable operating in a less formally structured, still-evolving environment, • Degree educated with CIPS Level 3/4 (or willingness to study), • Right to work in the UK Why This Role? This is a rare opportunity to help shape a procurement function, in a medium-sized business where your ideas and input will genuinely shape how things are done. You’ll get far broader exposure than you would in a large, highly specialised, often more narrowing focused procurement team and with that real visibility with senior stakeholders from day one. If you are interested in a role where you can really contribute while growing alongside the function and business please do apply or reach out for confidential chat!

But don’t worry if that’s not you—we’re not just in the business of making school food; we’re here to make good food that our clients and customers love!. Assist in preparing food and snacks for the site. England’s fastest-growing school food providers,.

Catering Assistant - Wargrave, Reading.Harrison Catering Services is one of the UK’s leading independent catering companies, serving high-quality, freshly-cooked food to thousands of people in schools and workplaces every day.We are looking for a Catering Assistant to join one of our catering team

Keeping the kitchen, counter and restaurant areas in a clean and tidy state.

Assist in the preparation and serving of food and beverages to guests in an efficient and pleasant manner. Support the Food and Beverage team in all operational duties, including setting up and clearing tables, restocking supplies, and assisting with inventory management. As a Food and Beverage Supe

Job Spec Be the driving force behind day-to-day F&B delivery across the whole site This is a hands-on leadership role at the heart of one of Surrey's busiest visitor attractions. At my client, you'll take day-to-day ownership of F&B delivery across every outlet on site – café, restaurant, grab-and-go kiosks, and seasonal or event catering – serving over 250,000 visitors a year. You'll be the person on the floor making sure every outlet runs smoothly, every day, allowing the F&B Manager to focus on strategy, growth, and commercial development. This role is ideal for an experienced team leader or supervisor ready for their next step up – moving beyond a single outlet or shift to help lead operations across the whole F&B offering. What you'll be doing: Run the day-to-day across every outlet Take operational responsibility for F&B delivery across the site, not just one outlet: • Restaurant and café, • Grab-and-go kiosks, • Seasonal and event catering You'll move between outlets as needed, spotting and resolving issues before they escalate, and making sure standards stay consistent everywhere. Be the go-to person on the floor Lead from the front during peak trading, acting as the first point of contact for staff and guests across all outlets: • Step in wherever the operation needs support, • Make fast, sensible calls on staffing, service, and stock, • Escalate to the F&B Manager when it genuinely needs their input Support commercial performance Play an active role in the commercial side of the operation: • Help drive spend per head and revenue across outlets, • Control waste and manage stock ordering and transfers, • Monitor labour and cost of sale, flagging concerns early, • Support monthly stock takes and back-office record keeping Build and lead the team across the site Take ownership of people management across all F&B outlets: • Recruit, induct, train and coach team members, • Manage the day-to-day rota to meet demand across outlets, • Address performance issues promptly and fairly, • Act as duty supervisor for F&B, and support other areas of the business when needed Uphold standards everywhere Ensure consistent standards across the whole F&B operation: • Food safety, hygiene and cleanliness compliance in every outlet, • Health & safety policies, risk assessments and audits, • Equipment checks, maintenance reporting, and timely fixes Support the F&B Manager to work strategically This role exists to take on the day-to-day operational load, allowing the F&B Manager to focus on strategy: • Deputise for the F&B Manager across the site when they're not on shift, • Handle routine decisions and escalations independently, • Feed back insight and ideas that help shape the wider F&B strategy What we're looking for You'll have some experience leading a shift or a team in a fast-paced hospitality or catering environment, and be ready to grow into a role with wider scope. We're particularly looking for someone who: • Has supervisory or team-leading experience in hospitality, catering or a similar customer-facing environment, • Is a hands-on leader who's comfortable moving between areas during busy periods, • Is happy picking up commercial basics on the job – spend per head, cost control, wastage, • Can train, motivate and manage a small team, • Stays calm, organised and decisive under pressure, • Is keen to grow into a bigger, more varied role than a single-outlet position The reality of the role (and why it's rewarding) Our business is highly seasonal and weather-dependent, with peak periods driven by school holidays, weekends and events. This creates a fast-paced, high-energy environment where strong day-to-day leadership has a direct and visible impact. In return, you'll benefit from: • A varied role with responsibility across the whole F&B operation, not just one outlet, • A predominantly daytime-focused operation, offering a strong alternative to late-night hospitality, • The opportunity to work in a unique outdoor, family-focused environment, • Genuine scope to grow into broader operational or management responsibility Experience & qualifications, • Experience as a supervisor or team leader in F&B or hospitality, • Experience across multiple outlets or a multi-site operation would be helpful, but not a requirement, • Good organisational and communication skills, • Some exposure to stock control, forecasting or rota management is useful but not essential, • Ability to lead, motivate and support a team, • Level 3 Food Safety (or willingness to work towards it) desirable Working Hours & Flexibility This is a full-time role working 5 days out of 7, including alternate weekends. Bank holidays are considered normal working days, with this reflected in the 28-day annual leave allowance. For most of the year, the standard working hours are 9:00am–5:00pm, including a 30-minute unpaid break. During the school summer holidays, these hours extend to 9:00am–6:00pm to support increased visitor numbers and operational demand. There will also be an expectation to cover approximately one 6:00pm finish per week to support after-school play sessions. Throughout the year, there are a small number of evening events, including: • Two fireworks evenings in October, • Four camping weekends during July and August, • A small number of adult-only evening events You would not be expected to work every event, but F&B management cover will need to be provided across all events. These events are not generally late-running, with most finishing around 8:00pm–9:00pm, and the latest finishes expected to be around 11:00pm for adult evenings. As senior members of the team, both positions will also require a degree of flexibility to support occasional ad hoc events, training sessions, stock takes and other operational requirements when necessary. Contract type Permanent Hours Full time including weekends, primarily daytime with occasional evenings Salary £31,162.50 p.a. JBRP1_UKTJ