Kitchen Porter

Thomas Franks Ltd; Oxford; On-site; GBP 22,000; Full time

Job summary

A prestigious boarding school in Oxford is seeking a proactive Kitchen Porter to join their team. The role involves maintaining hygiene standards, assisting with food prep, and ensuring efficient kitchen operations. Ideal candidates will have a positive attitude and customer service skills, contributing to a team-focused environment.

Benefits

Wider wallet scheme

Free meals on duty

Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoptive leave

Cycle to work scheme

Employee assistance programme

Qualifications

• Experience of pot wash duties preferred.
• Kitchen Porter experience is preferred, but not essential.

Responsibilities

• Maintain high standards of cleanliness in the kitchen.
• Assist chefs with food preparation as needed.
• Operate and clean all kitchen equipment.

Skills

Customer Service

Team Player

Organization Skills

Job description

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Oxford

Contract: , Permanent

Salary: £21,141

Hours: per week

A pre-prep and preparatory day and boarding school for boys (with co-ed nursery) in Oxford. Catering for 180 students and teachers daily. We offer a core feeding of breakfast, lunch, snacks and supper with a limited hospitality offering. This is a term-time only contract working 34 weeks. So working pattern will be 5 day a week mon-friday 9.30-5pm. .

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

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
  
  

Benefits

• 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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• Seniority level

  Entry level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

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• Job function

  Management and Manufacturing

• Industries

  Hospitality

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