Kitchen Porter

Andrew Brownsword hotels; Canterbury; On-site; GBP 10,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A boutique hotel in Canterbury is seeking a Kitchen Porter to join their passionate team. The role involves maintaining cleanliness in the kitchen areas and supporting chefs in delivering delicious meals. Experience is preferred but not required. The hotel offers competitive pay, service charge, and numerous perks including discounts and a supportive work culture that emphasizes work-life balance.

Benefits

Competitive pay

Discounts on food and beverage

Employee Assistance Programme

Meals during duty

Development opportunities

Milestone awards

Qualifications

• Experience in a similar role is an advantage, although not essential.
• Ability to work as part of a team.
• Willingness to maintain cleanliness in kitchen areas.

Responsibilities

• Keep kitchen areas clean and tidy.
• Support chefs by ensuring clean plates, cutlery, and pots.
• Collaborate as part of a passionate kitchen team.

Skills

Teamwork

Attention to detail

Flexibility

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.

Send us a Whatsapp message with FAMILYFIRST to [phone] to find out more, chat to us and apply!

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.