Events Assistant

Apetito is seeking an Events Assistant to help expand its Care Homes business by managing a mobile kitchen, the ‘apetiser’, at events nationwide. This role involves driving the vehicle, cooking, serving food, and ensuring exceptional tasting experiences for potential and existing customers. The candidate must have a full UK driving licence, customer service experience, and strong organisational skills. The position requires frequent travel, including overnight stays. Apetito offers a competitive salary, holiday options, and various benefits, while promoting a commitment to sustainability and inclusion within its workforce and customer community.

Overview:
To support our ambition to double the growth of our Care Homes business, we’re looking for a dedicated and energetic Events Assistant to take our food on the road – quite literally.
This is a unique and rewarding role that puts you at the heart of apetito’s growth within the care homes sector. You’ll be responsible for driving and managing our mobile kitchen, known as the ‘apetiser’, which is a 3.5 tonne van at on-the-road events. You will be bringing our food directly to potential and existing customers across the country.
As a business built on the quality of our food, tasting experiences are one of the most powerful tools we have. They allow us to showcase our meals, ensuring they are expertly served and enjoyed in the way they’re meant to be. This role ensures that our tastings are not only delivered seamlessly but leave a lasting impression.
Working in close collaboration with both our Sales and Marketing teams, you’ll play a key role in delivering stand-out events, roadshows and tasting days – whether that’s meeting new prospects, supporting care home group meetings, or running engagement days for our valued existing customers.
You’ll be the face of apetito, representing our values and our food. From setting up and cooking, to chatting with care home managers and front-line teams, your role is about creating warm, engaging and professional experiences that showcase what makes apetito different.
A full UK driving licence is essential for this role and you should expect to be at events across the country (including overnight stays), at least twice a week.
Who we are:
apetito is the UK’s leading food supplier to the health and social care sectors serving more than 1,300 care homes, health care and education settings.
Our meals are expertly crafted by our dieticians and chefs, and then frozen to lock in the goodness.
Wiltshire Farm Foods, our sister company, is the UK’s largest ready meal supplier cooking and delivering over 330 different delicious frozen ready meals across the UK.
Responsibilities:
Driving the vehicle to all ‘apetiser’ events
Vehicle setup, cooking and serving of food at all ‘apetiser’ events
Cleaning and maintenance of the vehicle, inside and out, to ensure it is representative of apetito at all times
Stock management of all items and disposables required for ‘apetiser’ events
Management of the technology onboard the ‘apetiser’ including the setup and customisation for all events
Development of the mobile tasting experience to ensure it is constantly evolving
About you:
Essential:
Experience within a driving role
Full UK Manual Driving Licence for a minimum of 2 years
Computer literate
Experience within a customer service-based role
Passionate, energetic and enthusiastic
Demonstrates good organisational skills
Self-motivated and resilient
Pragmatic operator
A strong communicator
Personable
Good team player
Strong work ethic
Ability to plan and manage time effectively
Desirable:
Events experience
Experience within a care-based role
Health & Safety awareness
Level 2 Food Safety Certificate
This role involves travel across the whole of the UK so will involve early starts, late finishes and overnight stays.
Company Benefits:
Competitive salary – accredited Living Wage employer
25 days holiday per year, plus bank holidays
Option to purchase up to 5 additional days holiday per year
Discretionary annual bonus scheme
Pension scheme – employer matched contributions up to 4%
Life assurance scheme worth at least 1x annual salary
Subsidised canteen
Free parking
Free turkey or voucher at Christmas
apetito perks scheme including salary sacrifice options and retail discounts
Our Values:
As a family-owned business, we take great pride in being a company that makes a real difference and is dedicated to creating outstanding meals to be proud of.
We develop a range of products designed to enhance health and well-being for all our customers.
We are driven by a passion for service and dedicated to feeding some of the UK’s most vulnerable people.
We proudly support British food and farming, focusing on using the best ethical and sustainable produce in alignment with our goal to reach Net Zero by 2040.
Our ethical standards are recognised by the ETI and we are an accredited Living Wage employer.
Learn more about apetito’s commitment to a more sustainable future.
We embrace inclusion, empowering individuals from diverse backgrounds.
Our commitment to making a real difference extends to customers, communities, and staff and we’re on a mission to build an inclusive workplace where everyone reaches their full potential.