Kitchen Porter

Teaching Vacancies; Leicester; On-site; GBP 11,000 - 14,000; Full time

Job summary

Avanti Schools Trust Central Team at Avanti Fields is seeking a Kitchen Porter to support the school’s catering operation. You’ll help maintain cleanliness, assist with meal packing and ensure timely service for students and staff.

Join a fast-growing multi-academy trust committed to high standards of hygiene and a welcoming kitchen environment. This role offers stable, team-based work within a school setting.

Qualifications

• Maintain high standards of cleanliness and hygiene across all kitchen, food preparation, packing and storage areas, including moving equipment and furniture as required.
• Support the kitchen team with food preparation, meal packing and the timely provision of meals and refreshments for students, staff and hospitality events.
• Receive, handle, store and rotate deliveries and stock, ensuring accurate stock control and the correct management of waste and recycling.
• Work collaboratively with the Chef Manager and wider catering team to ensure the smooth, efficient and consistent delivery of a high-quality catering service.
• Follow all food safety, health and safety and hygiene procedures, including temperature controls and risk assessments, and promptly report any hazards, defects or near misses, while being physically able to undertake manual handling and heavy lifting.

Responsibilities

• Maintain high standards of cleanliness and hygiene across all kitchen, food preparation, packing and storage areas.
• Assist with food preparation, meal packing and timely provision of meals for students and staff.
• Handle deliveries, stock, waste and recycling with proper rotation and control.
• Support Chef Manager and catering team to deliver a high-quality service.

Skills

Unsupervised work

Attention to safety

Food hygiene

Job description

What skills and experience we're looking for

About The Role

At Avanti's Catering, we believe food should nourish the body, mind and soul, creating positive experiences through wholesome, thoughtfully prepared vegetarian meals.

We’re seeking a dedicated Kitchen Porter to join Avanti Schools Trust Central Team at Avanti Fields, helping us deliver this vision through excellent kitchen support, high standards of hygiene and efficient service.

This is an opportunity to play an important behind-the-scenes role in creating a clean, organised and welcoming environment for our school community.

School visits are welcomed and encouraged. Please contact the school to arrange a suitable time.

What will you do?

• Maintain high standards of cleanliness and hygiene across all kitchen, food preparation, packing and storage areas, including moving equipment and furniture as required.
• Support the kitchen team with food preparation, meal packing and the timely provision of meals and refreshments for students, staff and hospitality events.
• Receive, handle, store and rotate deliveries and stock, ensuring accurate stock control and the correct management of waste and recycling.
• Work collaboratively with the Chef Manager and wider catering team to ensure the smooth, efficient and consistent delivery of a high-quality catering service.
• Follow all food safety, health and safety and hygiene procedures, including temperature controls and risk assessments, and promptly report any hazards, defects or near misses, while being physically able to undertake manual handling and heavy lifting.

What are we looking for?

• The ability to work unsupervised in a busy environment
• Ability to follow strict instructions in a systematic and consistent manner
• Commitment to the safeguarding and welfare of all students

What the school offers its staff

This is an exciting opportunity to join a fast-growing Multi Academy Trust with schools based in London, the midlands and the South West of England. All Avanti schools provide pupils with an outstanding education rooted in the inclusive and distinctive Avanti Schools ethos of educational excellence, character development, and spiritual insight.

Why should you apply

Avanti exists to help each person become a well-rounded human being through intellectual, moral and spiritual growth, and so make the world a better place.

• You will be working in a fantastic environment, with:
• Great opportunities for professional development
• LGPS pension scheme (subject to eligibility)
• Eligible for NUS Card and CSSC membership
• Well-being programs (retreats, yoga, wellness apps)

Further information

Avanti Schools Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and requires all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All successful candidates are required to have an Enhanced DBS check unless internally appointed and still within the cycle of DBS re-checks.

Any appointment subsequently made will be subject to the receipt of satisfactory references and other pre-employment checks.

Diversity and Inclusion

We want to make sure we are attracting the widest possible range of people and ensure that they are accepted, understood and treated equally when they work here. This means we will work hard to understand that each employee is unique and ensuring that individuals or groups are not treated differently or less favourably on the basis of specific characteristics.

Such characteristics include (but are not limited to) age, disability, gender including transgender, race, religion, sexual orientation, marital status, and how the school supports pregnant women and new parents.

Safeguarding StatementAvanti Schools Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We particularly welcome applications from under represented groups including ethnicity, gender, transgender, age, disability, sexual orientation or religion.

Commitment to safeguarding

Avanti Schools Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and requires all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All successful candidates are required to have an Enhanced DBS check unless internally appointed and still within the cycle of DBS re-checks. Any appointment subsequently made will be subject to the receipt of satisfactory references and other pre-employment checks.