Kitchen Porter

Thomas Franks Ltd; Ascot; On-site; GBP 15,000 - 21,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free meals on duty

Cycle to work scheme

Wider wallet discounts

Team & company social events

Employee assistance programme

Workplace pension

Excellent career progression

Job summary

Thomas Franks Ltd in Ascot is hiring a Kitchen Porter to join a busy kitchen team. You will help keep the kitchen clean, support chefs with prep, and ensure equipment is clean and functioning. This full-time, weekday role offers a stable 40-hour week and competitive pay.

Applicants should be reliable with good English, and prior pot wash or catering experience is a plus. DBS checks and safeguarding are part of our process.

Qualifications

• Kitchen Porter experience is preferred, but not essential.
• Organisational skills.
• Ability to demonstrate reasonable/good understanding and use of verbal English.
• Ability to demonstrate reasonable/good standard of written English and reading skills.
• Experience in customer and/or food preparation environment is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Keep kitchen hygienic and safe to high standards.
• Assist chefs with some food preparation.
• Clean and maintain all kitchen equipment.
• Operate industrial dishwasher.
• Support team with general kitchen duties.

Skills

Team player

English literacy

Verbal English

Job description

Contract: Full Time , Permanent
Salary: 12.95
Hours: 40 per week

An independent Catholic day school for girls aged 2–18 with a co-ed Nursery in Sunninghill near Ascot. Catering for just over 460 students and teachers daily. We offer a core feeding of Breakfast Lunch and Dinner and operates Monday to Friday.

We currently have a fantastic opportunity for a Kitchen Porter to join our established & friendly team at our prestigious location in Ascot.

You’ll be playing a big part in keeping the kitchen hygienic, safe, and up to our very high standards of cleanliness.

• Experience of pot wash duties would be an advantage
• Great team player
• Be able to help the Chefs with some food prep
• Ensure high standards of cleanliness at all times
• Clean and maintain all kitchen equipment
• Clean allocated pieces of heavy catering equipment using instructions and cleaning materials including air filter and extraction systems.
• Operate industrial dishwasher

We are looking for:

• Kitchen Porter experience is preferred, but not essential.
• Organisation Skills.
• 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

• 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.

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