Cafeteria Assistant

UHI Shetland is looking for a motivated part-time Cafeteria Assistant to work within our Briggistanes Café, 40 weeks per year on a term-time only basis. The anticipated working hours are between 9am and 2.30pm Monday to Friday to cover the busy lunch period although we are happy to negotiable working hours up to 25 hours per week. We are looking for someone to deliver a customer focussed service as part of a small team, and support the preparation of meals and snacks to customers. It would be beneficial for the Cafeteria Assistant to be confident in handling cash and operating of tills and card machines but support and training will be provided.

The successful candidate should demonstrate a customer focussed approach and will ideally have some experience in a service industry or similar environment. The successful candidate must also be able to demonstrate a good level of competency in Maths or English and will be required to obtain a Basic Food Hygiene certificate if they do not already possess one.

More information is available in the Job description and person specification attached.

UHI Shetland

UHI Shetland is the most northern partner of the University of the Highlands and Islands, offering well-equipped, modern facilities and provision of a variety of tertiary education courses, applied research, consultancies and knowledge exchange projects together with high-quality accredited and bespoke training.

UHI Shetland mirrors NJNC terms and conditions for Scotland’s College’s Home (njncscotlandscolleges.ac.uk) offering 8.4 weeks paid annual leave to Term Time Only employees (pro rata)

Distant Islands Allowance is currently set at £2,742 which would be in addition to any salary payment (pro Rata).

UHI Shetland is an equal opportunities employer operating a blind recruitment process and will not accept CVs as part of an application.

Please download and complete the application form attached and return to recruitment.shetland@uhi.ac.uk