Kitchen Assistant

Artfarm Somerset Head Office; Westbury; On-site; GBP 10,000 - 40,000; Part time

Job summary

A unique hospitality company in Westbury seeks a passionate Kitchen Assistant to join their production kitchen team. This role offers between 30 to 40 hours weekly and includes responsibilities such as assisting chefs with food preparation, maintaining cleanliness, and ensuring hygiene standards. This position provides competitive pay and generous benefits including holiday and a supportive work environment. Ideal for candidates who are eager to learn and grow in the culinary field.

Benefits

Competitive Rates of pay + Generous Tips

Flexible hours

30 days holiday pro rata

Free annual guest experience

Enhanced family-friendly policies

Health cash plan

Life Assurance

Generous discounts across properties

Social activities

Career development opportunities

Employee Assistance Programme

Enhanced pension scheme

Refer a Friend Scheme

Qualifications

• Experience in a kitchen or food preparation environment preferred.
• Ability to maintain hygiene standards.
• Willingness to learn and develop skills.

Responsibilities

• Assisting chefs with food preparation and cleanup.
• Maintaining cleanliness of kitchen equipment.
• Ensuring hygiene standards are upheld.

Skills

Passion for food preparation

Attention to cleanliness

Teamwork

Job description

Your Role

We are expanding our production team working in our amazing new production kitchen. We are on the look out for a Kitchen Assistant to work with our production kitchen team which could be a part time role of 30 hours per week or up to full time 40 hours depending on what you are looking for!

This role will be Monday to Friday with occasional weekend work, hours will be available between 08 : 00am – 17 : 00pm with a particular need for help with clearing down at the end of the day.

Working with our Senior Production Chef to produce our product range of core items and seasonal offerings you will be taking care of cleanliness, washing kitchen equipment and supporting with some preparation duties. Please take a look at our Farm Shop website for all of our products!

Your duties will include providing clean, dry equipment for our team of chefs to use in the kitchen. Assisting with maintaining cleanliness standards throughout the kitchen and preparation areas. Assisting our chef team with food preparation. Helping the chefs ensure that food standards and hygiene is strictly followed at all times including during opening and closing of the kitchen

Experience in a similar role would be great, but if you have the passion and ambition to develop your skills then you can count on us to show you the rest.

This role will be based at Westbury, Wiltshire.

What’s in it for you?

• Competitive Rates of pay+ Generous Tips
• Flexible hours - let us know what works for you and we'll flex the best we can
• 30 days holiday inc. bank holidays, pro rata for part time
• Free annual guest experience for you and a plus one, including 3-course meal, cocktails and a bottle of wine. It’s important we experience the magic too!
• Enhanced family-friendly policies, including 12 weeks full pay Maternity leave and 2 weeks full pay Paternity leave. These moments matter!
• Health cash plan – a health benefit which allows you to claim back your everyday medical expenses like Dentists and Prescriptions
• Life Assurance – £25,000
• Generous Artfarm-wide discounts includ­ing;
• Up to 50% off room booking at the award-winning Independent Hotel of the Year 2021, The Fife Arms
• Up to 25% off food and beverage across our properties in Somerset, Scottish Highlands, Los Angeles and London
• Up to 30% off our fabulous retail products
• High street discounts off 1000’s retailers through MyArtfarm site and app.
• Amazing socials -bowling, pizza nights or just a walk in the local countryside – there’s something for everyone.
• A unique approach to careerdevelopment and learning opportunities tailored around your individual aspirations and goals.
• Employee Assistance Programme with Hospitality Action
• Enhanced pension scheme to help you save into your piggy bank for the future!
• Option to save directly from payroll into an ISA to enhance financial wellbeing
• Generous Refer a Friend Scheme –up to £1000 to share with your friend!

About Westbury & Farm Shop

Farm Shop is a community farm shop which celebrates the best growers, farmers, makers and artisans its area has to offer. Inspired by Durslade Farm’s fresh and seasonal produce which is shared between our Somerset & London sites it was created to share this harvest more widely, from meat and fruit to vegetables and foraged finds. It promotes and shares local talent, supporting small projects with big futures and working with established ones to create special products that can only be found there. The team believes in building long-lasting relationships and are always looking for like-minded partners to support and stock.

Westbury is our distribution centre in Somerset which completes all of the E-Commerce sales and sends out stock to our various locations across the UK. The team here work very closely with the farm and the suppliers to maintain the correct levels of stock to fulfil both customer and internal orders.

About Artfarm

Artfarm is a one-of-a-kind independent hospitality company founded by Iwan and Manuela Wirth. Renowned for developing and reinventing distinctive sites including the award-winning Fife Arms Hotel in Braemar, Manuela restaurant in Los Angeles, and Roth Bar and Farm Shop in Somerset. Artfarm uniquely brings together art, community, education, people and place.