Kitchen Porter

Area 3 - South & North Essex; Southend-on-Sea; On-site; GBP 11,000 - 17,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free meal on shift

Staff discounts

Flexible working options

28 days holiday

Job summary

The Chesterford Group is recruiting a Kitchen Porter for Churchill's Thorpe Bay, Southend-on-Sea. The role focuses on maintaining cleanliness, supporting the kitchen team, and handling deliveries to ensure smooth service.

This is a full-time and part-time position with day and evening shifts, including weekends. The role offers a pay range of £8.00–£12.71 per hour with benefits such as a free meal on shift and staff discounts.

Qualifications

• Reliable, hardworking and willing to get involved.
• High standards of cleanliness and hygiene.
• A positive team player who communicates well and can stay calm under pressure.

Responsibilities

• Maintain cleanliness and hygiene across kitchen, prep, wash-up and back-of-house areas.
• Wash, sanitise and store crockery, cutlery, glassware and cookware.
• Follow daily and deep-clean schedules for floors and surfaces.
• Receive, unload and store deliveries; report issues to a manager.
• Assist with basic food preparation and restocking when trained.
• Follow food safety, allergen, COSHH and health & safety procedures.

Skills

Reliable

Cleanliness

Team player

Catering experience an advantage

Job description

Churchill's Thorpe Bay, Kitchen Porter; Southend - on - Sea

£8.00 - £12.71 an hour

The Chesterford Group is an award winning; environmentally focused family-owned business that puts its people at the heart of everything it does. We serve over 3 million meals every year from 40 of our award-winning Fish and Chip takeaways and restaurants in the South, Southwest and Southeast of England, under 5 brands: Fish n’Chickn’, Churchill’s, Bankers, The Boundary and Toffs Fish Restaurants.

We are on a mission to defend the future of Fish and Chips…will you answer the call?!

The Kitchen Porter plays an essential role in keeping the kitchen clean, safe and running efficiently. The role is responsible for maintaining excellent standards of cleanliness and hygiene, washing and storing kitchen equipment, crockery, cutlery and glassware, supporting with deliveries and waste disposal, and providing practical support to the kitchen team during busy service periods.

Full-time and part-time opportunities are available. The role involves a mixture of day and evening shifts, including weekends, depending on business needs.

Main Responsibilities:

• Maintain excellent standards of cleanliness and hygiene throughout the kitchen, preparation, wash up and back of house areas.
• Wash, clean, sanitise and safely store crockery, cutlery, glassware, pots, pans, utensils and kitchen equipment, keeping the wash up area organised and ready for service.
• Follow daily and deep-cleaning schedules, including floors, surfaces, equipment and other designated areas.
• Receive, unload and put away deliveries promptly and safely, storing items in the correct areas and reporting any issues to a manager.
• Support the kitchen team with basic food preparation, restocking and other duties where required and once appropriately trained.
• Follow all food safety, allergen, COSHH, manual-handling and health and safety procedures, reporting hazards or equipment faults promptly.
• Dispose of waste and recycling correctly and help maintain clean and tidy storage areas.
• Work as part of the wider team and comply with company policies, procedures and reasonable management requests.
• To follow the company’s Values:
• To follow the company’s Behaviours:

Values:

• Strive to be better and do the right thing
• Go Above and beyond for our customers
• Value and believe in each other
• Empower each other to be extraordinary

Behaviours:

1. Have the passion to thrive in your role
2. To communicate effectively amongst your peers and customers
3. Show good initiative whilst also displaying great teamwork
4. Be flexible and adaptable to your work
5. Have great attention to detail
6. Support your team where needed
7. Upsell products to customers
8. Be calm under pressure
9. Be one team

Skills & Attributes:

• Reliable, hard working and willing to get stuck in
• High standards of cleanliness and hygiene, with good attention to detail
• A positive team player who communicates well and remains calm under pressure
• Previous Kitchen Porter, catering or hospitality experience is an advantage, but not essential

Benefits:

• Training and Personal Development
• Free meal on shift
• Recognition rewards
• Staff discounts
• Flexible working options
• 28 days holiday, inclusive of bank holidays

Phone Interviews will be held as soon as possible followed by face to face interview week commencing 19th October

At Churchill’s, our journey began way back in the early 1920s when Great Grandpa Harold, and wife Dorothy painstakingly saved all the money he earned from mining and playing amateur cricket for Accrington and moved from the north to Essex to buy their first ever fish and chip shop in in Romford, in 1923. Three generations of our family later, it’s safe to say we’re fish and chip super geeks through and through!

We believe that nothing makes memories like fish and chips. It connects us to each other in such a special way, bringing to life moments from our childhood and beyond. We think that the buying and eating of fish and chips should be a family affair, but we don’t think this should be at the expense of the environment, people and communities.

The health of the oceans and future fish stocks is very important to us as we can only thrive as a business if the seas and oceans and fish within them continue to thrive. That is why we only source fish from sustainable fishing sources and our fresh Red Tractor Approved Shropshire Chickens are barn reared. We also recycle our waste oil into Bio Diesel and our packaging is made of recycled material and or biodegradable.

We are a family business that deeply cares about its people. Our business is nothing without you! We put just as much passion into your development and happiness as we do our delicious fish and chips!!

Join our family, and become a fish and chip superhero……