Kitchen Porter

Thomas Franks Ltd.; Maidenhead; Hybrid; GBP 18,000 - 22,000; Full time

Job summary

Thomas Franks Ltd in Maidenhead, Berkshire, is seeking a Kitchen Porter to join our established team at a prestigious location. You will help keep the kitchen hygienic, safe and up to high standards of cleanliness.

This role supports the chefs with basic food prep, operates the industrial dishwasher and maintains equipment cleanliness. There is free on-site parking and a Monday–Friday schedule on a term-time plus contract.

Qualifications

• Kitchen Porter experience preferred but not essential.
• Organisation skills required.
• Good verbal English is expected.
• Good written English and reading skills.
• Experience in customer and/or food preparation environment preferred.

Responsibilities

• Keep kitchen hygienic and safe to high standards.
• Assist Chefs with some food preparation.
• Operate industrial dishwasher.
• Clean and maintain kitchen equipment.
• Ensure high standards of cleanliness at all times.

Skills

Kitchen Porter experience

Organisation Skills

Verbal English

Written English

Customer/food prep experience

Tools

Industrial dishwasher

Air filters & extraction systems

Job description

Contract: Full Time , Permanent
Salary: 20018.25
Hours: 37.5 per week

An independent, co-educational nursery and prep school, educating approximately 400 children aged 2 to 11 years old. Located close to the centre of Maidenhead in Berkshire. Catering for 525 students and teachers daily. We offer a core feeding of lunch, snacks, afternoon club and summer schools. There is some hospitality at this location. This is a term-time plus contract working 34 weeks plus 9 weeks over summer. This is a Monday to Friday operation and has additional benefit of free on-site parking.

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

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.