Retail Food & Beverage Assistant

Salary: UE02 - £22,995 - £23,028 per year pro-rata, £12.60 per hour plus 18.1% holiday pay

Department: Accommodation, Catering and Events (ACE) - Catering

Location: Canopy Kitchen and Courtyard

Position: Open-ended (permanent), Guaranteed Hours - 20 hours per year every year

Vacancies Available: 4

 

The Opportunity:

We are now recruiting for Food & Beverage Assistants to join the team for our restaurant in the new Edinburgh Futures Institute, opened in June 2024. This is a very exciting opportunity to join and be involved in the business from the early days. Based at the heart of the Meadows, in the beautifully renovated old Royal Infirmary, the operation will consist of a 66 cover, contemporary Scottish Brasserie, serving breakfast, lunch and dinner alongside a more informal Grab & Go takeaway offer served during the day. You will be responsible for delivering excellent food, exceptional service and maintaining high standards within both the café and restaurant operations. To succeed in this role, you will have experience in a similar high street, restaurant operation.

Your skills and attributes for success: 

• Focused upon impeccable customer service. 
• Great attention to detail.
• Efficient/organised.
• Experience in a similar high street environment.

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Application Information: 

Please ensure you include the following documents in your application:

• CV
• Cover letter

As a valued member of our team, you can expect: 

• A competitive salary.
• An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work. 
• To be part of a diverse and vibrant international community.
• Comprehensive Staff Benefits, such as a generous holiday entitlement, competitive pension schemes, staff discounts, and family-friendly initiatives. Check out the full list on our staff benefits page (opens in a new tab) and use our reward calculator to discover the total value of your pay and benefits.

Championing equality, diversity and inclusion:

The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality. 

Prior to any employment commencing with the University, you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our right to work webpages (opens new browser tab).

The University is unable to sponsor the employment of international workers in this role. International applicants will therefore be unable to apply for and secure a Skilled Worker visa. They will only be able to take up this role if they can demonstrate an alternative right to work in the UK.

 

Key dates to note:

The closing date for applications is 7 May 2025.

Unless stated otherwise the closing time for applications is 11:59pm GMT. If you are applying outside the UK the closing time on our adverts automatically adjusts to your browsers local time zone. 

Interviews will be held one week after closing date.

 

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