Department: Estates & Facilities - Catering & HospitalitySalary: £25,533 - £26,108 per annum (Grade 1)Reference: 2045Location: Mile EndDate posted: 16 April 2024Closing date: 12 May 2024
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About the Role You will be based in our Mile End Campus and will provide excellent customer service by welcoming, helping and serving guests and ensuring the front-of-house environment is always well kept as well as to assist with servicing of food and beverages for all our events and outlets in our campuses. Please note that this position may require standing for long periods of time and the ability to lift heavy objects. Additionally, availability to work evenings, some weekends, and bank holidays is necessary.
About You • Previous experience in the hospitality industry is preferred. • Clear understanding of food safety regulations and practices. • You will be professional, motivated and customer focused. You will be working within a busy environment supporting our Hospitality and Retail departments. • Exceptional people skills, both customers facing and with other members of the team. • An ability to work calmly under pressure and solve problems quickly and efficiently. • Strong attention into detail organisational skills. • Strict adherence to health and safety procedures. • You will need to be flexible and available to work weekends and evenings depending on business requirements.
About the Directorate The Directorate is one of the largest departments within Queen Mary, University of London and is committed to supporting and promoting student wellbeing at the College, and providing the highest standards of estates and facilities across the university, preparing and helping to sustain the University’s working and learning environmental for students, staff, stakeholders, and guests by ensuring safe environments, security and cleanliness. About Queen Mary
At Queen Mary University of London, we believe that a diversity of ideas helps us achieve the previously unthinkable.
Throughout our history, we’ve fostered social justice and improved lives through academic excellence. And we continue to live and breathe this spirit today, not because it’s simply ‘the right thing to do’ but for what it helps us achieve and the intellectual brilliance it delivers.
We continue to embrace diversity of thought and opinion in everything we do, in the belief that when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, truly original thought takes form.
Benefits
We offer competitive salaries, access to a generous pension scheme, 30 days’ leave per annum (pro-rata for part-time/fixed-term), a season ticket loan scheme and access to a comprehensive range of personal and professional development opportunities. In addition, we offer a range of work life balance and family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, and campus facilities including an on-site nursery at the Mile End campus.
Queen Mary’s commitment to our diverse and inclusive community is embedded in our appointments processes. Reasonable adjustments will be made at each stage of the recruitment process for any candidate with a disability. We are open to considering applications from candidates wishing to work flexibly.