Kitchen Assistant

The Old Mill; Pennington; On-site; GBP 14,000 - 20,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Meal discount

Lifestyle discounts

Birthday gift

Refer a friend bonus

Development program

Service awards

Staff meals discount

Hotel accommodation discount

Job summary

Upham Inns is hiring a kitchen assistant to help keep our busy kitchens running. You’ll help keep it clean and safe, supporting our chefs to create spectacular dishes.

We value a friendly, outgoing personality and a willingness to learn. Comprehensive training is provided, with a clear path to grow into chef or manager roles within our premium pubs across Southern England. Join a close-knit team with flexible shifts and great atmosphere.

Qualifications

• You’ll have a friendly, outgoing personality.
• You should be eager to learn new skills.
• You’ll enjoy working in a close-knit team.
• You must be flexible and conscientious.

Responsibilities

• Keep the kitchen clean and safe so chefs can create spectacular dishes.
• Support a busy kitchen with reliability and teamwork.
• Undergo comprehensive training to learn premium catering.
• Opportunity to grow into chef or management roles within Upham Inns.
• Enjoy flexible shifts and be part of a welcoming team.
• Learn the food business in a supportive environment.

Skills

Friendly personality

Willing to learn

Team player

Flexible

Conscientious

Job description

What’s in it for you?

• Up to £12.21 per Hour plus a share of Tronc
• Flexible shift patterns
• Up to 33% off meals taken off duty for you and up to 6 guests
• 33% off our hotel accommodation & 20% for Friends and Family
• Development program with a clear pathway
• Access to the lifestyle card – which will provide you with instant access to over5,000 discountsacross all aspects of their lifestyle. With thousands of discounts covering local independents, national and online businesses, there are plenty of opportunities to save money. The lifestyle card is a100% free benefitfor our Upham Inn team members.
• Service Awards
• A Birthday Gift
• Refer a friend and Chef recruitment incentives of up to £1000

Kitchen Assistant Requirements:

For this role, personality and potential are more important than skills and experience…

• You’ll have a friendly, outgoing personality
• You should be eager to learn new skills
• You’ll enjoy working in a close-knit team
• You must be flexible and conscientious

Could you be the most important person in our kitchen?

Join us as a kitchen assistant, and you’ll be the person who keeps the wheels turning in our busy kitchen. You’ll keep it clean and you’ll keep it safe - and you’ll protect the space so the chefs can create spectacular dishes.

Kitchen life is hard work, but it’s also a lot of fun.

The team spirit is brilliant and there’s real pride in helping create something special for customers.

This is also a great way to learn about premium catering.

Upham is a business where kitchen assistants can go on to become chefs or even general managers – and given our passion for fresh ingredients, there are few better places to learn the food business.

If you’ve never worked in a professional kitchen before, don’t worry. Comprehensive training will be provided.

What do we do?

We own a collection of beautiful and individual premium pubs across Southern England. Our pubs are in idyllic settings in country villages and towns, where we are proud to be the quality local of the area, serving high quality fresh pub food in a cozy pub ambience. Most of our pubs have some Charming Bedrooms as well. New to our growing family is Harper’s Steakhouse, a new premium American Steakhouse brand that we started rolling out last year.

It’s an exciting time to join us!

Upham Inns is growing, and we want you to grow with us and be part of our success. We’ve been busy investing in our business and we are seeing some great results. So, we want to continue to grow our pub family and we are looking to recruit passionate people into our team

We are looking for great people to join us

Our company is big enough to support you but small enough to care about your individual needs. We are a friendly, hands-on team who have a passion for running great pubs. We are always on the lookout for like-minded people who have the desire to work and grow with us.