Kitchen Porter

Thomas Franks Ltd.; Wokingham; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 28,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Kitchen Porter to join a friendly team in a prestigious educational setting. This role involves maintaining high cleanliness standards, assisting chefs, and ensuring kitchen equipment is well cared for. With a focus on fresh food catering and a commitment to excellence, this opportunity offers a supportive environment for personal and professional growth. Enjoy benefits like free meals on duty, discounts at major retailers, and a well-established apprenticeship program. If you're ready to contribute to a vibrant team and enhance your skills, this position is perfect for you.

Benefits

Wider wallet scheme

Free meals on duty

Volunteers leave

Enhanced maternity leave

Cycle to work scheme

Recommend a friend bonus

Individual training and development

Apprenticeship programme

Team & company social events

Employee assistance programme

Qualifications

• Experience in a kitchen environment is preferred but not essential.
• Ability to maintain high standards of cleanliness and hygiene.

Responsibilities

• Maintain high standards of cleanliness in the kitchen.
• Assist chefs with food preparation and pot wash duties.
• Clean and maintain kitchen equipment.

Skills

Organizational skills

Verbal English understanding

Written English skills

Kitchen Porter experience

Can do attitude

Tools

Industrial dishwasher

Job description

A co-educational, independent day & Boarding school in Wokingham, Berkshire. The school provides education for boys and girls aged between 3 months and 18 years, feeding about 1000 students and teachers daily. We offer a core feeding of Breakfast, Lunch & supper with a fair amount of hospitality throughout the year. This is a term time contract for the main school & 52 weeks for the nursery and operates 7 days a week. Working patterns are mixed across 7 days. Additional benefit to this location is free parking onsite.

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

You'll be playing a big part in keeping the kitchen hygienic, safe, and up to our very high standards of cleanliness.

Key Responsibilities:

• Maintain high standards of cleanliness at all times.
• Experience of pot wash duties would be an advantage.
• Assist the Chefs with some food preparation.
• 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.

Requirements:

• Kitchen Porter experience is preferred, but not essential.
• Can do attitude.
• Organizational 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 in a 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.