School Kitchen Porter: Clean Kitchen, Prep Support

Peoplebank; Reading; Hybrid; GBP 19,000 - 26,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free meals on duty

Free parking on site

Cycle to work scheme

Employee assistance programme

Job summary

Thomas Franks in Reading, Berkshire, is seeking a Kitchen Porter to join a busy private school catering team. The role is full-time and permanent, with 40 hours per week over 45 weeks of term-time plus.

You’ll help keep kitchens hygienic, assist chefs with prep, operate an industrial dishwasher, and maintain high cleanliness standards. Benefits include free parking on site and on-site meals.

Qualifications

• Kitchen Porter experience 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.
• Experience in customer and/or food preparation environment is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Assist Chefs with some food prep.
• Keep kitchen hygienic, safe and clean to high standards.
• Clean and maintain all kitchen equipment.
• Operate industrial dishwasher.
• Support a 7-day operation with a 5-day-out-of-7 pattern.

Skills

Kitchen porter

Food prep

Cleanliness

Team player

Verbal English

Written English

English reading

Tools

Industrial dishwasher

Job description

Thomas Franks in Reading, Berkshire, is seeking a Kitchen Porter to join a busy private school catering team. The role is full-time and permanent, with 40 hours per week over 45 weeks of term-time plus.

You’ll help keep kitchens hygienic, assist chefs with prep, operate an industrial dishwasher, and maintain high cleanliness standards. Benefits include free parking on site and on-site meals.