Kitchen Porter

Abode-Canterbury---Kitchen; Canterbury; On-site; GBP 17,000 - 21,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay

Service charge

Perkbox discounts

25% off food & beverage staff rate £25

Employee Assistance Programme

Free meals on duty

Job summary

ABode Canterbury is recruiting a Kitchen Porter to join a busy kitchen team on Canterbury High Street. You will help keep all kitchen areas clean and organized so our chefs can cook and serve meals efficiently. Experience is a plus, but not essential—we value reliability and team spirit.

We offer a competitive pay structure, a monthly service charge payout, Perkbox perks, staff discounts across our hotels, free meals on duty, and opportunities for progression within the group.

Qualifications

• Experience in a similar role is an advantage, although not essential.
• Willing to work in a busy kitchen and support the team.

Responsibilities

• Keep kitchen areas clean and tidy to support chefs.
• Work as part of a passionate kitchen team to ensure service runs smoothly.

Skills

Team player

Flexible

Attention to cleanliness

Job description

Location:ABode Canterbury is a stylish, four AA star 72-bedroom boutique hotel on Canterbury High Street, which houses our own restaurant brand, Brasserie ABode.
For the commuters, Canterbury East and West train stations are just a few minutes’ walk away.
SERVICE CHARGE-We pay our team service charge each month! This service charge all goes into one pot, and 100% of that service charge is then shared amongst all the team at the hotel-every penny received is paid out to the team.
Service charge can be in the region of £115 a month (around £1375 per year) over and above base pay for a full time employee.

Come and join our team as a Kitchen Porter and let your passion and personality shine

Our culture is important to us, and we encourage everyone in our teams to show thoughtfulness towards each other and our guests.

As a Kitchen Porter, you will be working as part of a passionate team of chefs. You will play a crucial part in keeping the kitchen areas clean and tidy.

Experience in a similar role is an advantage, although not essential.

Check out some of the key points about the role:

• You’ll be an important part of this busy kitchen, as without clean plates, cutlery, and pots and pans, our chefs won’t be able to cook and serve their delicious meals.
• Being one team, everyone in the kitchen is responsible for keeping it clean.

Work/life, or as it should be called life/work balance is important to us all, so we will always try to be fair with our rotas. We just ask that you can be flexible with us, so we can be flexible with you in return.

To say thank you, we have many perks:

• Competitive pay – We are proud that everyone who joins our group gets a competitive a rate of pay, irrespective of age, plus you get service charge and tips on top.
• Treat yourself once in a while with lots of retail and hospitality perks through our Perkbox platform.
• Excellent discounts across our family of hotels – you will be entitled to 25% off food & beverage in our hotels plus we offer an amazing staff rate of £25 B&B per person across the group & your friends and family get special rates too.
• We understand it’s OK not to be OK, so we offer an externally run confidential helpline for any support you require about anything you might need as part of our Employee Assistance Programme.
• We sustain you physically too, meals when you are on duty are free.
• To be the best version of yourself, we encourage our teams to be curious. Everyone can learn and develop - our development pathways are unique to us and are the best in the business.
• We provide lots of opportunity to progress and move up – we have made hundreds of internal promotions, including to General Manager level.
• We like to say a special thank you for every year you are with us - our milestone awards include Champagne, afternoon tea, or dinner for you and someone special. When you reach the big milestones, you receive extra special gifts on top like longer hotel stays, extra days off and a unique gift especially chosen for you.

About our family of hotels

We bring a family of hotels together under one roof, ready to welcome guests with open arms, warm hearts and experiences that are simply memorable.

Each of our hotels are unique, individual, and quirky in personality. Quality is fundamental to everything we do, and it is the simple things that matter. We believe everyone should feel included, special and welcome, and that applies to our team and our guests.

We have very unique hotels in very special locations, from the award winning Gidleigh Park in Devon, the 900-year-old Amberley Castle to our cool city centre Abode Manchester set in a 19th century textile factory, two minutes from Piccadilly train station – to see the whole group, take a look herewww.brownswordhotels.co.uk

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