Location: Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre, Twinwoods Business Park, Thurleigh Road, Milton Ernest, Bedford MK44 1FD
Salary: £25,769 per annum plus excellent benefits
Schedule: 3 days on / 3 days off | 12-hour shifts (7:00 AM – 7:00 PM)
Ready to impact a better future?
As a Catering Assistant in our Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre team, you’ll help deliver nutritious, high-quality meals that support the wellbeing of people during a challenging period in their lives. Working in a busy kitchen environment, you’ll play an important role in maintaining food quality, safety, and service standards.
Your work has purpose. By supporting the delivery of culturally appropriate meals and maintaining high standards of hygiene and care, you’ll help create a positive impact on the daily experience of those in our care. Every meal you help serve contributes to a safe, respectful, and supportive environment, helping us impact a better future.
What you’ll do as a Catering Assistant
- Support chefs with food preparation for a variety of menus, including special dietary and cultural requirements
- Maintain high standards of food safety, hygiene, and cleanliness across the kitchen environment
- Safely receive, store, and manage food deliveries, stock, and waste disposal
- Record food production and kitchen data in line with Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP), allergen controls, and audit requirements
- Assist with quality checks and hospitality services when required
- Follow safety, safeguarding, and security procedures at all times
Does this sound like you?
- Experience working in a catering, kitchen, or fast-paced food service environment
- Food Safety Level 2 or Level 3 qualification, or willingness to achieve this
- Knowledge of HACCP and allergen management procedures
- Strong teamwork and communication skills, with a positive and reliable approach
- Basic computer skills and a full UK driving licence due to the site location
What we offer
- Holidays: 25 days plus 8 bank holidays
- Pension: Up to 6% contributory pension scheme
- Training and development: Over 1,100 internal courses available, funding for qualifications and apprenticeships (including L3 Team Leader and L5 Operations Manager apprenticeships), mentoring opportunities, and a focus on internal progression
- Health and wellbeing: Employee Assistance Programme, Bupa Anytime Healthline, wellbeing app, 30% off at Serco‑managed leisure centres, and 24/7 access to a virtual GP service
- Discounts: Discounts across around 1,000 retailers, from food and clothing to days out, entertainment and travel
- Charity: Paid volunteering day, tax‑free charitable giving through Payroll Giving Scheme, donate your pennies from your monthly pay to the Serco People Fund Charity
- Employee networks: Our networks support inclusion and connection by providing spaces for collaboration, learning, and belonging. They represent and empower all our colleagues including LGBTQIA+ employees, women, parents and carers, people with disabilities, veterans, and people from all cultural backgrounds.
- Vetting and checks:
A possible vetting process will take place before employment can commence. This process may take up to three months to complete.
Let’s impact a better future, together. Apply today.
A little bit about us:
At Serco, everyone plays a vital part in delivering essential public services that make a real difference. As a global team of 50,000 people across Defence, Transport, Justice, Immigration, Healthcare, Leisure and Citizen Services, we’re united by a shared purpose: to improve the services that communities rely on. Guided by our values of Trust, Care, Innovation and Pride, our people make meaningful impact, every single day.
Our inclusive recruitment commitment:
We prioritise your skills and potential. As a Disability Confident Leader, a top Great British Employer of Veterans, and a Gold Inclusive Employer Standard holder, we champion equal opportunities for all. We offer flexible and hybrid working where possible and make reasonable adjustments throughout recruitment and employment.
- Guaranteed Interview Scheme: Applicants with disabilities, veterans and people with convictions, who meet the minimum job criteria, are guaranteed an interview. Simply opt into the relevant scheme on the application form.
- Ban The Box: We also support fair access for those with unspent criminal convictions through our ‘Ban the Box’ pledge (some roles may have security exemptions).
For support with your application, please contact recruitmentuk@serco.com.
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