Are you looking to move your existing hospitality experience to a corporate (legal) setting in Bristol? Due to an internal secondment, we have a great opportunity available for 6 x months (fixed term contract / FTC). As a leading law firm with over 600 employees in Bristol and beyond, we would love to hear from you if you have a customer centric approach, and a real passion for great client/customer experience.
The role of Hospitality Assistant sits within our Client Suite/Business Services team. As a whole, the team ensures the smooth day to day running of hospitality and business services to our clients and internal stakeholders is of the highest standard at all times.
As our Hospitality Assistant your role will be interesting, busy, and varied. Your key responsibilities will be food and beverage service, and ensuring all stocks are replenished and ready for our internal events and meetings. You will also assist with the general upkeep and cleanliness of the food and beverage store, and staff kitchen, in line with our departmental policies. Our Hospitality provision includes tea and coffee service, sandwich and buffet lunches for business meetings, and evening receptions for up to 100. You will be joining a small but highly collaborative and friendly team within the Client Suite and Business Services areas, that provides integral support functions within the firm. At Foot Anstey, our values are a representation of who we are, and we invite you to join us.
What you'll do:
- Provide excellent levels of proactive customer care and service
- Supporting events
- Basic prep and serving of food and beverages
- Meet and greet internal/external clients and stakeholders when required
- Clearing and cleaning of meeting rooms as well as the prep kitchen and staff kitchen
- Placing catering and consumables orders
- Re-stocking consumables in the kitchens
- Ensuring that COSHH, Food Safety and Health & Safety regulations are adhered to, and any incidents are reported in line with procedures
- Ensuring all complaints are dealt with professionally and in line with procedures
- Traveling to other offices on occasion to covering absences. This will normally be planned holiday cover however on occasion you will be required to cover other short-term absences
What we're looking for:
- Previous experience within catering or hospitality
- Food hygiene certificate level 2 (desirable)
- Excellent communication skills along and professional in presentation
- The ability to deal with a variety of tasks whilst working flexibly in a friendly team
- The ability to work 36.25 hours per work (alternate shifts starting at 08:00 and 09:00)
- Available for a 6 month fixed term
- The ability to work calmly and efficiently under pressure
Pre-employment screening
Successful applicants will be required to complete a pre-employment screening process which includes a financial integrity check and a DBS check. If you wish to discuss any issues or questions in connection with this, please do speak in confidence with a member of the Talent Acquisition Team at [email protected]
Eligibility to work in the UK
Eligibility to work in the UK will be verified in the final stages of the selection process. All candidates must be able to prove their right to work in the UK, which may include meeting the Home Office criteria for Visa sponsorship. Candidates who require sponsorship should evaluate the Home Office eligibility criteria for a Skilled Worker visa before applying and keep up to date with any legal developments.
Our offer to you
In return for your efforts, you can expect considerable scope for personal as well as professional development. We encourage people to engage with our popular and well supported coaching and mentoring programmes, which connect you to people right across the firm and at every level. We create space for mental and physical wellbeing with our weekly Lifestyle Hour, 28 days annual leave, a day off for your birthday, and a sabbatical you can take every 5 years. You can also buy holiday and manage your benefits flexibly using our sophisticated portal to configure your total reward offer according to what you value most. As part of this, you can make ongoing or one-off donations to our charitable foundation and access our CSR programme where you can engage with community-based initiatives (as a team, or individually) twice a year, to give something back where you feel it matters. Take a look here to find out more about Our benefits | Foot Anstey.
Why Foot Anstey?
As one of the UK's fastest growing law firms, Foot Anstey believes in helping our clients and people achieve their ambitions, unlocking new and exciting opportunities. Our team of business and legal advisors are motivated by understanding clients' goals and collaborating with them and other advisers to deliver solutions. By becoming our clients’ most trusted advisor, we are enabling them to achieve their ambitions. How we do it is just as important as what we do. Our values define the way we act with our clients and one another every day, and because of these we think our culture and environment sets us apart.
Over our history we've grown from a high-street firm to a significant regional and national player working with leading brands and individuals predominantly across six key sectors: Private Equity, Retail & Consumer, Energy & Infrastructure, Islamic Finance, Developers and Private Wealth. Our strategy of gaining market share through meeting clients' needs, investing in and developing high quality talent and using technology and innovation to enhance our services has led to significant growth. We now operate from seven locations with offices in Truro, Plymouth, Exeter, Taunton, Bristol, Southampton, and London.
Our people are central to our success, in every part of the business. We actively support our employees to achieve their aspirations through offering meaningful careers with balanced rewards, which have been carefully designed to focus on personal wellbeing. We offer continual opportunities for support and professional development through our Talent Development programme and believe in empowering each other to achieve and strive to create a progressive and inclusive working environment. Being forward-thinking, we are open to discussing flexible working patterns for all of our vacancies, with over 40% of our existing employees having a permanent flexible working pattern. In addition, our impressive suite of flexible benefits will enable you to prioritise what matters most to you.
Creating a diverse and inclusive workplace is integral to delivering our strategy, and we were delighted to be awarded the National Equality Standard for a second time in 2021. We consider this to be right at the heart of our priorities and goes way beyond our policies – it’s something we consider across everything we do, from the make-up of our client teams, encouraging staff to reach their potential, through to our leadership. We aim to support our clients and our people to achieve their goals, regardless of background, gender, race, beliefs, sexuality or other non-work related factors. We champion aspiration and encourage it in everyone that works with us. As such we actively encourage applications from all suitably qualified people, regardless of any characteristics protected by law. If you apply for this role you may be encouraged to answer our diversity and social mobility monitoring questions, so please be reassured that any answers you provide will remain entirely anonymous and confidential and will in no way impact your application.
Foot Anstey. Powering Your Ambition.
