Kitchen Porter

Thomas Franks Ltd; Dover; On-site; GBP 10,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A prestigious catering company in Dover is seeking a Kitchen Porter to maintain high kitchen hygiene standards and assist chefs. Ideal candidates will have strong customer service skills and a team-oriented attitude. A Kitchen Porter experience is preferred but not essential. Benefits include free meals on duty and enhanced leave policies. Join a friendly team and help deliver exceptional service.

Benefits

Wider wallet scheme

Free meals on duty

Enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoptive leave

Cycle to work scheme

Team and company social events

Workplace pension

Career progression opportunities

Qualifications

• Preferred Kitchen Porter experience but not essential.
• Positive attitude and organizational skills.
• Good understanding of verbal and written English.

Responsibilities

• Maintain kitchen hygiene and cleanliness.
• Assist chefs with food preparation.
• Operate industrial dishwasher and clean kitchen equipment.

Skills

Experience of pot wash duties

Excellent customer service skills

Great team player

Food preparation assistance

High cleanliness standards

Job description

Kitchen Porter

Dover

Contract : Full Time, Permanent

Salary : £ 12.21 per hour

Hours : 40 per week

A fabulous co-educational independent boarding school for children with military traditions. Set in 150 acres of Kent countryside near Dover. Catering for about 570 students and teachers. We offer a core feeding of AM snack, Lunch, PM snack, Supper and a 6th form cafe. There will be a good amount of hospitality offering at this location. This school operates 7 days a week so working patterns are 5 out of 7 days and has additional benefits of free parking and use of on site gym.

We are recruiting 2 KP roles.

1x 40 hours per week 49.6 weeks per year including paid holidays

1x 40 hours per week 41.8 weeks per year including paid holidays

Shift timings are either 0700 - 1500 OR 1130 - 2000

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

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.