Deli Assistant at Heathrow Airport Lounge, The Virgin Atlantic Clubhouse

Job Introduction

We are currently looking to add to our kitchen brigade at the Virgin Atlantic Lounge, Heathrow, to deliver a world class guest experience. The lounge offers both Brasserie Dining and Casual Dining options while creating a relaxed atmosphere for our guests. 

We are looking for a passionate, enthusiastic and motivated individual who will be able to create culinary masterpieces, in the form of delightfully presented dishes as part of our dedicated team. This role will be based on our Deli Bar, where you will be preparing and both serving all of the customers that use the deli bar.

Main Responsibilities

• Preparation and serving of food
• Ensuring that all service areas are clean and tidy
• Adhering to Health and Safety Regulations, ensuring that they are followed at all times
• Delivering a world class customer service experience to our customers and staff
• Serving all customers that use the deli bar with first class service in a quick and efficient manner
• Assisting the Head Chef or Chef Manager with paperwork including stock control
• Completing all daily paperwork associated with the deli service accurately

The Ideal Candidate

• Previous experience in a food service background
• Good presentation
• Excellent communication skills
• Basic Food Hygiene Certificate (advantageous but not essential)
• Basic Health and Safety Certificate (advantageous but not essential)
• Good customer service skills
• Able to provide 5 year employment referencing 

About The Company

In the UK and Ireland, Sodexo employs around 30,000 people, and partners with clients in many sectors across business and industry; schools and universities; sports and leisure; energy and resources; government and agencies; healthcare; justice and defence.

Sodexo’s connected; people-centric approach brings together a diverse range of expertise. The breadth of services it offers ranges from food and hospitality; cleaning; reception; concierge (Circles); security; property management and technical services through to data driven workplace strategy and design (Wx); employee engagement and recognition services (Sodexo Engage) and personal home services through Prestige Nursing + Care and the Good Care Group.

Vital Spaces is Sodexo’s value proposition that puts people at the heart of everything we do, bringing together services and solutions and focusing on the productivity and wellbeing of people wherever they are.

Sodexo is committed to being an inclusive employer; we welcome and encourage applications from people with a diverse variety of experiences, backgrounds and identities.

We’re a Disability Confident Leader employer. We’re committed to changing attitudes towards disability, and making sure disabled people have the chance to fulfil their aspirations.

We are building on our support to the Armed Forces community through the development of specific pathways within our recruitment process to  support ex-forces personnel and reservists, those applying for jobs with us who meet the ideal candidate criteria for the role advertised are guaranteed to progress to the selection process