Kitchen Porter

Thomas Franks; Esher; Hybrid; GBP 22,000 - 29,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free on-site parking

Free meals on duty

Volunteers leave

Cycle to work scheme

Unrivalled training & development

Job summary

Thomas Franks is a founder-led fresh food catering company near Esher, Surrey, seeking a Kitchen Porter to join our established team at the Esher site. The role is full-time, permanent, with 40 hours per week and a term-time style schedule.

You will help keep the kitchen hygienic and safe, assist with basic food prep, and support chefs while upholding high cleanliness standards. Benefits include free on-site parking and meals on duty, with opportunities for training and development.

Qualifications

• Kitchen porter experience preferred.
• Organisation skills are important.
• Good verbal and reading English skills.
• Similar experience in catering or food prep is preferred.
• Wider wallet discounts and on-site perks are offered.

Responsibilities

• Assist with pot wash duties and kitchen cleanliness.
• Help chefs with basic food preparation tasks.
• Maintain high cleanliness standards in the kitchen.
• Clean and maintain kitchen equipment.
• Operate industrial dishwasher.

Skills

Pot wash duties

Team player

Food prep assistance

Cleanliness

Dishwasher operation

Tools

Industrial dishwasher

Job description

Contract: Full Time , Permanent
Salary: £25,500
Hours: 40 per week

A co-educational independent day school for children aged 2 to 18. Situated just outside Esher, Surrey. Catering for just about 1400 students and teachers. We offer a core feeding of Breakfast, Lunch, tuck shop and match teas. There will be a lot of hospitality offering at this location. This is a term time only contract working 41.2 weeks a year. This school operates Monday to Friday and some Saturday's has an additional benefit of Free on site parking and free meal on duty

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

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

• Experience of pot wash duties would be an advantage
• 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.
• Organisation Skills.
• 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
• 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.
• 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.