Kitchen Porter

ABode Canterbury - Kitchen; Canterbury; On-site; GBP 10,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A stylish boutique hotel in Canterbury is seeking a passionate Kitchen Porter to join their team. You'll play a vital role in maintaining cleanliness in the kitchen, assisting chefs to ensure smooth operations. Flexibility and teamwork are essential, and while experience is beneficial, it's not mandatory. The hotel offers competitive pay, various perks through a benefits platform, and opportunities for personal growth and development. Join a family-oriented team where you can shine and make a difference.

Benefits

Competitive pay

Retail and hospitality perks through Perkbox

25% off food & beverage in hotels

Employee Assistance Programme helpline

Free meals on duty

Development pathways for progression

Milestone awards for service

Qualifications

• Experience in a similar role is an advantage, although not essential.
• Ability to work in a busy kitchen environment.
• Willingness to learn and develop.

Responsibilities

• Keep the kitchen areas clean and tidy.
• Ensure clean plates, cutlery, and kitchen equipment.
• Assist chefs by maintaining a clean workspace.

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. We pay our team a monthly service charge that goes into one pot, 100% of which is shared amongst all the team. The service charge is around £115 a month (about £1,375 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, because 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 rosters. 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 base rate of pay, irrespective of age, plus you receive 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, and 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 as part of our Employee Assistance Programme.
• 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 is 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 here

If you're the type of person that likes to learn and share the wisdom, get in touch.

Send us a Whatsapp message with FAMILYFIRST to [phone] to find out more, chat to us and apply (or apply the normal way, whichever works best for you!)

Compensation: To be discussed