Kitchen Porter

Thomas Franks Ltd; Ashtead; On-site; GBP 23,000 - 31,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free parking on site

Free meals on duty

Volunteer leave

Cycle to work

Referral bonus

Training and development

Apprenticeship programme

Social events

Employee assistance

Job summary

Thomas Franks is offering a full-time, permanent Kitchen Porter role at Ashtead Park, Ashtead, Surrey. The role involves helping keep the kitchen hygienic and safe, supporting chefs with basic food prep, and maintaining high cleanliness standards across equipment and work areas.

On-site parking is available and shifts are 40 hours per week. Experience with pot wash duties is preferred, along with a can-do attitude and good English communication.

Qualifications

• 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.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• Keep the kitchen hygienic, safe and up to high standards of cleanliness.
• Support chefs with basic food preparation as required.
• Maintain cleanliness of all kitchen equipment and work areas.
• Operate the industrial dishwasher and assist with pot wash duties as needed.

Skills

Experience of pot wash duties

Excellent customer service skills

Great team player

Help Chefs with food prep

High standards of cleanliness

Clean and maintain kitchen equipment

Operate industrial dishwasher

Kitchen Porter experience (preferred)

Can do attitude

Organisation skills

Job description

Ashtead Park

Contract: Full Time, Permanent

Salary: 12.94

Hours: 40 per week

A day and boarding co-educational school for pupils from year 3 to 6th form in Ashtead Park, Surrey. Catering for 950 students and teachers daily. We offer a core feeding of Breakfast, lunch, supper, tuckshop twice daily, 6th form café, internal and external hospitality. This is a mix of term time only, term time plus 4 weeks and 52 week depending on role and operates 7 days a week. Additional benefit to this location is free parking on site.

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

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

Key Skills

• 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
• 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.
• Can do attitude.
• Organisation Skills.

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.