Weekend Kitchen Porter

Thomas Franks; Perth; Hybrid; GBP 18,000 - 22,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Wider wallet scheme

Free meals on duty

Volunteers leave

Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoptive=

Cycle to work scheme

Team & company social events

Job summary

Thomas Franks is seeking a Weekend Kitchen Porter for our Perth site. You will help maintain cleanliness, assist chefs with basic food preparation, and operate the industrial dishwasher to support a busy kitchen in a boarding school environment.

The role is weekend-focused, with 5 out of 7 days pattern, and offers access to a wide range of staff benefits and a supportive team within a leading independent caterer.

Qualifications

• Team player with good organisation skills.
• Clear verbal and written English communication.
• Experience with pot wash duties is beneficial.
• Willingness to support chefs with food prep and kitchen tasks.

Responsibilities

• Assist with pot wash duties and kitchen cleaning.
• Help chefs with some food preparation.
• Maintain high standards of cleanliness and hygiene.
• Operate industrial dishwasher and clean kitchen equipment.

Skills

Team player

Organisation skills

Verbal English

Written English

Pot wash experience

Tools

Industrial dishwasher

Job description

A co-educational independent boarding school in Perth and Kinross, Scotland, for children aged between 12 and 18 years. Catering for just under 400 students and teachers daily. We offer a core feeding of Breakfast, Lunch and Supper with some high end hospitality and summer lets as well. As this is a boarding school, it operates 7 days a week so working patterns would be 5 out of 7 days. There is free parking available at the school.

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

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

• Experience of pot wash duties would be an advantage
• 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.
• 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.
• Similar experience of customer and / or food preparation environment is preferred

• 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 Scotland Schools

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 PVG, Identity & reference checks (covering the last five years) will form part of the selection process. As an organisation using the Protecting Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Disclosure service to assess applicants' suitability for positions of trust, Thomas Franks Ltd complies fully with the PVG 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.