Food & Beverage Assistants

Southampton Outdoor Sports Centre

Post Title: Food & Beverage Assistants

Sites: Southampton Outdoor Sports Centre

Salary: Up to £26,510 per annum

Hours: 40 hours per week

Contract Type: Permanent

Closing date for receipt of applications: 11 August 2026

The role:

BH Live is recruiting for Food and Beverage Assistants to join our team, at the newly redeveloped Southampton Outdoor Sports Centre. You will support the day-to-day delivery of the hospitality operation at the Outdoor Sports Centre, including a café service, food and drink preparation, customer service, stock control and ensuring cleaning standards are adhered to. You will also provide hospitality support for scheduled events.

You will provide a welcoming, efficient and a great customer service experience whilst ensuring all food safety, health and safety, cash handling and operational procedures are followed.

You will:

• Deliver excellent customer service across the café, bar, retail and event hospitality areas.
• Prepare and serve food and drinks in line with agreed standards and procedures.
• Support the delivery of hospitality for events, bookings and centre activities.
• Operate tills and EPoS systems accurately, following cash handling procedures.
• Maintain high standards of cleanliness, hygiene and presentation across hospitality areas.
• Follow all food safety, allergen, licensing and health and safety procedures.
• Assist with stock replenishment, stock rotation and reporting low stock levels.

To be successful you will need:

• A valid food safety & hygiene Level 2 qualification.
• Great customer service and communication skills.
• An understanding of the importance of food hygiene and cleanliness.
• The ability to remain calm and professional during busy periods.
• A flexible approach to working hours, as you may be required to work evenings, weekends and bank holidays.

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We offer:

· Onsite parking

· Training and development opportunities

· BH Live Active - Gym membership

· Health cash plan

· Employee Assistance programme

· Company pension matched up to 6% contributions

· Colleague discount on food and drink

· Colleague recognition

· Birthday / Celebratory day off

· Loyalty Rewards

About BH Live:

We are one of the UK’s leading leisure and event venue operators – a registered charity and social enterprise.

Our geographical reach spans across multiple venues, leisure centres and attractions across Portsmouth, Southampton, Croydon and the BCP region with millions of visits per year.

Our organisational and charitable purpose is to generate:

• More participation – through the provision of leisure facilities to encourage active communities, improved health, and wellbeing

• Higher audiences – through the provision of a diverse range of cultural and artistic events that appeal to a wide audience

• Greater economic and social benefit – through hosting major conferences, exhibitions, and events for the benefit of the local, regional, and international economies and people

We are making a positive difference across the communities we serve.

Our organisation is changing lives – placing us at the heart of the UK’s growing social economy. We host hundreds of events a year; sell more than half a million cultural, and entertainment tickets; clock up millions of leisure centre visits, and welcome thousands of conference and exhibition delegates. As well as promoting community health and wellbeing, this generates millions of pounds in economic benefit for the local economy through business and cultural tourism.

As a social enterprise, we don’t pay dividends to shareholders. Every pound we make is used to run our business and generate a surplus to reinvest and enhance our centres and facilities for public benefit.

We’re BH Live, and we make things happen.

To apply:

All applications are to be made via the BH Live Careers site: careers.bhlive.org.uk.

BH Live reserves the right to close the vacancy early should sufficient applications be received. We therefore highly recommend that you submit your application as soon as possible.