Kitchen Porter

Aluminiosteverga; Minster Lovell; On-site; GBP 19,000 - 23,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Service charge shared

Staff meals on duty

Staff discounts

Perkbox benefits

Employee assistance programme

Job summary

Old Swan & Minster Mill in Minster Lovell near Oxford is hiring a Kitchen Porter to support a busy kitchen team. You will help keep the kitchen areas clean and tidy, ensuring plates, cutlery, and cookware are ready for service.

This full-time role offers a generous service charge paid monthly and access to staff discounts across our hotels, plus meals on duty. We value flexibility and a positive attitude, with opportunities to learn and progress within the Brownsword Hotels family.

Qualifications

• Experience in a similar role is an advantage.

Responsibilities

• Keep kitchen areas clean and tidy.
• Help ensure plates, cutlery and pots/pans are clean and ready for service.

Skills

Cleanliness

Flexibility

Team player

Job description

Location

Located just 15 miles from Oxford, Old Swan & Minster Mill is in the picturesque village of Minster Lovell. Consisting of both a quintessentially country English Inn, and a modern riverside hotel, SERVICE CHARGE‑We pay our team service charge each month! This service charge all goes into one pot, and 100% of that service charge is then shared amongst all the team at the hotel‑every penny received is paid out to the team. Service charge can be in the region of £150 a month ( close to £2000 per year) over and above base pay for a full time employee. The Old Swan & Minster Mill offers a relaxed, fun yet professional environment to work in. Free parking is available on site, and we do offer discounted staff taxis for those that don't drive!

Come and join our team as a Kitchen Porter and let your passion and personality shine

Our culture is important to us, and we encourage everyone in our teams to show thoughtfulness towards each other and our guests.

As a Kitchen Porter, you will be working as part of a passionate team of chefs. You will play a crucial part in keeping the kitchen areas clean and tidy.

Experience in a similar role is an advantage, although not essential.

Check out some of the key points about the role:

• You’ll be an important part of this busy kitchen, as without clean plates, cutlery, and pots and pans, our chefs won’t be able to cook and serve their delicious meals.
• Being one team, everyone in the kitchen is responsible for keeping it clean.

Work/life, or as it should be called life/work balance is important to us all, so we will always try to be fair with our rotas. We just ask that you can be flexible with us, so we can be flexible with you in return.

To say thank you, we have many perks

• Competitive pay – We are proud that everyone who joins our group gets a competitive a rate of pay, irrespective of age, plus you get service charge and tips on top.
• Treat yourself once in a while with lots of retail and hospitality perks through our Perkbox platform.
• Excellent discounts across our family of hotels – you will be entitled to 25% off food & beverage in our hotels plus we offer an amazing staff rate of £25 B&B per person across the group & your friends and family get special rates too.
• We understand it’s OK not to be OK, so we offer an externally run confidential helpline for any support you require about anything you might need as part of our Employee Assistance Programme.
• We sustain you physically too, meals when you are on duty are free.
• To be the best version of yourself, we encourage our teams to be curious. Everyone can learn and develop - our development pathways are unique to us and are the best in the business.
• We provide lots of opportunity to progress and move up – we have made hundreds of internal promotions, including to General Manager level.
• We like to say a special thank you for every year you are with us - our milestone awards include Champagne, afternoon tea, or dinner for you and someone special. When you reach the big milestones, you receive extra special gifts on top like longer hotel stays, extra days off and a unique gift especially chosen for you.

About our family of hotels

We bring a family of hotels together under one roof, ready to welcome guests with open arms, warm hearts and experiences that are simply memorable.

Each of our hotels are unique, individual, and quirky in personality. Quality is fundamental to everything we do, and it is the simple things that matter. We believe everyone should feel included, special and welcome, and that applies to our team and our guests.

We have very unique hotels in very special locations, from the award winning Gidleigh Park in Devon, the 900-year-old Amberley Castle to our cool city centre Abode Manchester set in a 19th century textile factory, two minutes from Piccadilly train station – to see the whole group, take a look herewww.brownswordhotels.co.uk

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