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Food Service Assistant (Maternity Cover, Term Time Only) - Brooksby College

Salary:£12,955.99 Per Annum (Based on FTE of £24,294 Per Annum)
Type:Temporary - Part Time
Closing Date:Thursday, 18th December 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 Brooksby 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. Working as part of a team, the successful candidate will always deliver an exceptional standard of customer service and assist in the daily running of our catering provision. 

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.

This role is a fixed term, term time only role working 25 hours per week across 36 weeks throughout the year.  

Loughborough College Group is formed of Brooksby College, Loughborough College, Stephenson College and IGNITE Performing Arts. We have a vast curriculum across campus’s offering challenging and engaging learning experiences for our students. We are and have consistently invested in providing our learners and employees with an outstanding and unrivalled range of modern facilities and resources.

Loughborough College Group 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 the college. 

We are proud to have achieved the Investor in Diversity award and we actively encourage applications from individuals who are currently under-represented and from all areas of the community. Alongside this, we are a disability confident employer, and we welcome everyone to consider becoming a part of our journey. 

As well as our commitment to your professional and personal development, we also offer a generous benefits package including: 

  • A competitive pension scheme
  • Cycle-to-work scheme
  • On-site parking
  • Access to healthcare scheme
  • Subsided nursery fees
  • Additional annual leave available
  • Generous Maternity/Paternity pay
  • 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.

The successful candidate will be employed by The Leicestershire College a subsidiary company of Loughborough College. The terms and conditions of employment offered by the Leicestershire College are different to those of Loughborough College. Please note that employees of the Leicestershire College are based at one of the campus’ of 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. 

Loughborough College Group is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all students and expects all staff to share this commitment. Please note, all applicants will be subject to an enhanced DBS check.

If you require any support to apply for this job, please email recruitment@loucoll.ac.uk 

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How to Apply

To apply for this position you'll need to complete an online application. To start your application to join us click the 'apply now' button below. You'll either need to register a new account or if you have applied before sign back in. Please use an email address that you access regularly as this will be our main way of contacting you regarding your application.

Important Information

EU citizens arriving into the UK after the 1st January 2021 will need apply for a Tier 2 visa to gain right to work in the UK.

To be eligible to apply for a Tier 2 visa, the role advertised will need to have an educational standard of at least A levels and the salary for the role has to be a minimum of £25,600 unless in a shortage area i.e. STEM or if you have a PhD relating to the role.

There is a points system guide with further detail here.  Unfortunately due to these restrictions if you do not meet the requirements, we will be unable to process your application.

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