Kitchen Porter

TN United Kingdom; High Wycombe; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 31,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a prestigious private school as a Kitchen Porter, where you'll play a vital role in maintaining a clean and hygienic kitchen environment. This is a full-time, permanent position within a dynamic team that caters to over 1000 students daily. You'll enjoy a supportive workplace culture with opportunities for training and career progression. With a focus on excellence and individuality, this role offers the chance to contribute to a vibrant community while enjoying great perks, including free meals on duty and social events. If you're a team player with a positive attitude, we want to hear from you!

Benefits

Wider wallet scheme

Free meals on duty

Volunteers leave

Enhanced maternity leave

Cycle to work scheme

Recommend a friend bonus

Training and development

Apprenticeship programme

Social events

Employee assistance programme

Qualifications

• Experience in a kitchen or food preparation environment preferred.
• Ability to demonstrate good verbal and written English skills.

Responsibilities

• Maintain high standards of cleanliness in the kitchen.
• Assist chefs with food preparation and cleaning duties.
• Operate kitchen equipment and industrial dishwasher.

Skills

Pot wash duties

Customer service skills

Team player

Food preparation assistance

Cleanliness standards

Kitchen equipment maintenance

Industrial dishwasher operation

Education

Experience in kitchen environment

English language proficiency

Job description

Job Description:

Kitchen Porter

High Wycombe

Contract: Full Time , Permanent
Salary: 26124
Hours: per week

A private girls' boarding and day school in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire for students aged 11-18. Catering for about 1050 students and teachers daily, we offer a core feeding of Breakfast, lunch and supper. Am and PM snacks, 3 feeding locations for breakfast and supper. There is also lots of hospitality provision at this location. This is a 7 day operation so shift patterns would be 5 over 7 days. This location benefits from free parking on site.

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

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

• 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.

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