Food Services Assistant

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Food Services Assistant at Sainsbury’s Wigston is a part-time on-site role handling the display and prep of breads, pastries, sweet treats and hot foods, ensuring food safety, serving customers and replenishing stock to keep shelves inviting. The ideal candidate is friendly, thrives in a fast-paced team, takes initiative, adapts to new digital tools and pays close attention to detail. In return you’ll access a strong benefits package including discounts, free meals, generous holiday entitlement, pension matching, share schemes and wellbeing support, plus ongoing training. Apply early and tailor your application to highlight customer service, reliability and teamwork, confirm right to work in the UK and age requirements, and be prepared for an online assessment; ask for adjustments if needed.

What you’ll be doing:

• Preparing, packing and displaying a range of breads, pastries, sweet treats, hot foods and seasonal items so they are enticing for our customers 
• Complying to food safety and hygiene standards by checking food temperatures, date checking products, disposing of waste and cleaning the food areas   
• Be tuned in to what our customers want and be on hand to serve them brilliantly, supporting with any questions, and proactively offering help
• Replenishing stock to maintain availability and keeping our shelves tidy and full of well-presented products
• Build great knowledge about our products, services and promotions to help provide recommendations 
• Working flexibly across the store as required

What makes a great Sainsbury’s Colleague: 

• Friendly and welcoming with a genuine enthusiasm for helping customers and a passion for food
• Happy working in a fast-paced, physical and high energy environment, and thrives in being part of a team
• Takes responsibility for owning tasks and uses initiative to solve problems
• Always ready to work flexibly and productively across the store to a high standard - you’ll be fully trained in a variety of skills, so you have opportunities to learn, develop and try new things
• Comfortable in learning to use new digital tools and technology to do your job brilliantly  
• Have great attention to detail, keeping the store clean and clutter free, always looking to create the best shopping experience for our customers 

Working for us has great rewards:

We truly value our colleagues and provide market-leading benefits and training to reflect that:

• Discount card – 10% off at Sainsbury’s, Argos, Tu, and Habitat after four weeks, increasing to 15% discount at Sainsbury’s every Friday and Saturday
• Free food and hot drinks - provided for Colleagues in all our stores
• Generous holiday entitlement - based on the hours you work, plus maternity and paternity leave
• Pension – we’ll match between 4-7.5% of your pension contributions
• Sainsbury’s share schemes – buy Sainsbury’s shares at discounted prices
• Shopping discounts – special offers on gym memberships, restaurants, holidays, retail vouchers and more 
• Wellbeing support – including free access to our Employee Assistance Programme which is a confidential service providing support and guidance on a wide range of issues

Please note that our vacancies may close quickly, so we encourage candidates to apply at their earliest convenience.

If you need an update on your application, you should contact the store that you have applied to. You can find contact details for all Sainsbury's stores here.

Working in our stores:

Our stores are fast-paced environments where no two days are ever the same. They are at the heart of the local community providing outstanding value, quality and great service. As one of our Food Services Assistants, you’ll be the special ingredient that ensures our stores are set-up brilliantly to provide our customers with a range of great tasting products.

Eligibility: 

• You must be above the school-leaver age in your country School leaving age - GOV.UK
• You must have Right to Work eligibility in the UK
• If the shifts for this role cover hours earlier than 6am or later than 11pm, you will need to be at least 18 years of age.

An inclusive place to work and shop

We are dedicated to being a truly inclusive retailer, where every colleague can achieve their full potential, and every customer feels welcome when they shop with us.

To support this commitment, our colleagues may be entitled to a range of enhanced discretionary leave for families, as well as support for carers. We provide our colleagues resources to help them understand and support their role and their team effectively. Our internal colleague networks seek to ensure true representation for everyone, helping us identify and remove barriers that our colleagues may face. 

We are proud to offer a range of development opportunities, including mentorship, training, and career progression pathways, to help our colleagues grow and succeed. We also celebrate diversity through various initiatives and events, fostering a culture of inclusion and respect. If you would like to learn more about our commitment to inclusivity, please take a look here. 

As part our commitment as a Disability Confident Leader, all candidates will have the opportunity to be offered an interview through our online assessment which will prioritise those candidates who achieve the highest score and therefore most closely match the essential criteria for the role.

Should you require any reasonable adjustments during the application or interview stages, please let us know, and we will endeavour to support you.