Job Title: Butchery Assistant
Location: Fodder at Great Yorkshire Showground, Harrogate HG2 8NZ
Salary: Competitive
Job Type: Part time, Temporary
Fodder is an award-winning farm shop and café established over twelve years ago. Fodder has a loyal customer base and is well known for quality produce and customer service. The only farm shop and café in the UK where all profits go towards funding the work of a registered charity; the Yorkshire Agricultural Society.
Passionate about Yorkshire, its farmers and local producers; Fodder, supports and sells only the very best. Our shelves are stocked with food and drink from over 430 farmers and producers, with 85% of what is sold and served coming from Yorkshire. We recently won North of England Butchers’ Shop of the Year.
About the role:
This is a part time temporary role to help run an efficient, friendly and successful butchery counter. To assist the butchery team making sausages and burgers, prepare ready to cook products and help to package meat for retail sale.
Key Duties:
Help run a successful Butchery department including:
- Helping and serving customers
- Being committed to ensuring that Fodder’s butchery counter is the best in the UK
- Assisting with stock rotation, cleaning and working safely
- Help prepare all meat requirements for our café and take away
- Work to ensure economical, quality and timely preparation
- Observe methods of preparation and storage to ensure meat is prepared in the prescribed manner
- Provide excellent helpful and friendly customer service
- Ensure that we maintain high standards on all areas of the business and meet all legislative requirements including environmental health and food preparation
- Assist with the daily cleaning and planned maintenance of all butchery premises and equipment, to ensure the highest standards
- Any other appropriate duties which may be added from time to time
About you:
- Butchery is changing and we need someone who is creative, innovative and understands the changing customer trends
- This is a physically demanding role, so you must be fit and healthy
- A passion both for good food and for showcasing and selling amazing Yorkshire meat
- Excellent people skills and an enthusiastic team player
- Good verbal communication skills
- Creative and honest
- Ability to prioritise, manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines
- Good team working skills
- The ability to work safely within a busy environment
Please Note: due to the nature of the role, no sponsorship or relocation packages will be available for this position so all candidates must be eligible to both live and work in the UK to be considered.
If you like the sound of the role and want to join the Fodder team hit APPLY or if you’d like to find out more info head over to our website to check us out!
If you’re uncertain if the role is right for you people with a background (or interest) in the following have excelled in the past: Meat Preparation, Trimmer, Chef, Meat Processing, Butchery, Industrial Butcher, Meat Trimming Operative, Butcher Assistant, Butchery.
