Kitchen Assistant | Sunday job | Up to £20 per hour

Thomas Franks Ltd.; Greater London; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 28,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Free meals on duty

Cycle to work scheme

Workplace pension

Training and development

Career progression

Job summary

Thomas Franks Ltd. is seeking a Kitchen Assistant to work Sundays in a London setting. You will help provide food, drinks, and exceptional customer service in a fast-paced kitchen, with potential for extra hours. The role requires cooking from fresh ingredients and supporting chefs with prep while upholding brand standards.

Applicants should have good English skills and a willingness to join a team focused on quality, safety, and continuous improvement in a school catering environment.

Qualifications

• Experience in a fast-paced kitchen is preferred.
• Able to work Sundays and attend to customers in a school setting.
• Good English communication and teamwork skills.

Responsibilities

• Work as part of a team to provide food and beverages with excellent service.
• Prepare food from scratch following brand standards and seasonal ingredients.
• Maintain hygiene, safety, and allergen controls in line with policies.
• Assist with basic pot wash duties and food prep as needed.

Skills

Customer service

Team player

Food preparation

Attention to detail

Organised

Job description

Kitchen Assistant | Sunday job | Up to £20 per hour London Contract: , Casual

Salary: Between £18 - £20 per hour

Hours: per week

A private co-educational day school situated in Mottingham, Southeast London, is looking for a Kitchen Assistant who can work 6 hours every Sunday, with the possibility of additional hours.

You will have previous experience of working within a fast-paced kitchen as a Kitchen Assistant.

You will be excited to work with fresh seasonal ingredients & regularly changing bespoke menus. You will be creative and have the opportunity to showcase your skillset.

Key responsibilities:

• To work well as part of a team, providing food, alcoholic drinks, and excellent customer service.
• To produce food for service using fresh ingredients, cooking from scratch and following the companies brand standards
• Ensuring company food standards are adhered to and wastage controlled.
• Ensuring all Food Hygiene and Health & Safety policies and allergen control procedures are followed.
• Experience of pot wash duties would be an advantage
• Excellent customer service skills
• Great team player
• Be able to help the Chefs with some food prep

You will have the following skills:

• A genuine interest in food & excellent customer service
• An all-round team player
• Innovation and passion for great food
• An organised Kitchen Assistant with attention to detail

Knowledge / competencies:

• Ability to demonstrate reasonable / good understanding and use of verbal English.
• Ability to demonstrate reasonable / good standard of written English and reading skills.
• Similar experience of customer and / or food preparation environment is preferred

Benefits:

• Wider wallet scheme (discounts at major retailers, restaurants, gyms etc).
• Free meals on duty
• Volunteers leave – up to one day per year.
• Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoptive leave.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Recommend a friend bonus.
• Unrivalled individual training and development.
• Well established apprenticeship programme.
• Team & company social events.
• Employee assistance programme.
• Workplace pension
• Excellent career progression within a leading independent contract caterer.

About us

Thomas Franks is a founder led, fresh food catering business with a focus on excellence and service delivered with individuality, passion and style. We are unique in every approach and our clients, and our people are paramount to our daily success.

Disclaimer

All applicants must be able to demonstrate that they have the Right to Work in the UK to be considered for this role.

An enhanced DBS, Identity & reference checks (covering the last five years) will form part of the selection process. As an organisation using the Disclosure Barring Service (DBS) Disclosure service to assess applicants' suitability for positions of trust, Thomas Franks Ltd complies fully with the DBS Code of Practice and undertakes to treat all applicants for positions fairly. We are committed to safeguarding the welfare of children and undertake not to discriminate unfairly against any subject of a Disclosure based on conviction or other information revealed. However, for any post in a school please be aware that any application is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and as such any criminal conviction, caution or bind-over must be declared.

Diversity and Inclusion at Thomas Franks

We actively encourage applications from candidates from diverse backgrounds and continue to develop a culture of growth and inclusion and would like to invite applications from groups who are currently under-represented, because we believe greater diversity leads to exceptional results and provides a better working life.