Catering Assistant - Hatfield

Affinity Water has a new job opportunity available as a Catering Assistant at our Hatfield Hub. The Role:

As a Catering Assistant you will be providing a vital service in creating fresh, daily meals that fuel our employees and delight the external organisations who use our facilities. Your service will make a real difference to their well-being every day.

What you'll be doing:

As well as undertaking general catering duties, our catering staff are responsible for checking quality and troubleshooting issues as they arise and continually maintaining high standards of customer service.

• The preparation and provision of a range of meals and light snacks including a breakfast and lunchtime counter service and barrister style coffee.
• Preparation of in-house hospitality for meetings and events.
• Preparation and provision of the lunchtime deli bar for sandwiches and salads, ensuring optimum and flexible use of resources at all times.
• Compliance with all Health, Safety and Well-being working practices and procedures.
• Ensuring there is always a high standard of cleanliness and hygiene is maintained within the Bistro, including undertaking deep cleaning duties as required.
• Promote and maintain a high standard of hygiene in accordance with the Food Hygiene Legislation.

What you'll need:

• Successfully completed level 3 in Catering Food Safety.
• Previous experience of working in a similar environment.
• Excellent customer service skills.

Advert Closing Date: 7th July 2026

Benefits:

• Salary: £27,500 (dependant on skills and experience).
• Hours of Work: Monday (7:00am - 2:00pm) & Tuesday - Friday (7:00am - 3:00pm).
• Learning and development opportunities, including mentoring and a range of formal courses and open learning resources.
• Entry into the company annual bonus scheme.
• Annual leave from 23-27 rising with length of service, and the option to purchase up to 5 extra days.
• A 'Celebration Day' in addition to public holidays that people can use to celebrate a religious festival or other occasion that is important to them.
• A generous 'double match pension scheme' that doubles the contributions you make (company contribution capped at 12%)
• We offer a range of family benefits including enhanced Maternity, Adoption, Paternity, Shared Parental Leave, Fertility Support Leave and up to 5 full or 10 half days of paid Carers Leave.
• Menopause policy and Reasonable Adjustment policy to help everyone perform at their best.
• Access to our Wellbeing Centre with support for looking after your physical and mental health.
• Discounts at a Range of Retail Outlets through our Tap4Perks scheme.
• Discounts on Dental and Medical Insurance through our Tap4Perks scheme through salary sacrifice.
• Up to 4 Affinity days a year to volunteer in the community.
• Life Assurance.

Disability Confident

As a Disability Confident employer, we're committed to offering interviews to disabled candidates who meet the essential criteria and opt in on the application form. Ask the Talent Acquisition lead for the full job description to see all the criteria. If we have a very high volume of applicants and we're not able to offer interviews to all, we'll take a fair and proportionate number of disabled candidates through.

Affinity Water recognises the benefits of greater diversity in our workforce to better reflect the communities we serve. We are committed to building a more inclusive culture where every member of our workforce can thrive.