Kitchen Assistant

Thomas Franks Ltd.; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 10,000 - GBP 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading independent catering company is looking for a talented Kitchen Assistant to join their team at a beautiful boarding school in Cundall. The role requires previous experience in a fast-paced kitchen environment. Responsibilities include working with fresh ingredients, ensuring food hygiene standards, and collaborating with chefs. The position offers competitive pay, excellent career progression, and various employee perks including free meals and a cycle to work scheme.

Benefits

Wider wallet scheme (discounts at major retailers)

Free meals on duty

Volunteer leave – up to one day per year

Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoptive leave

Cycle to work scheme

Recommend a friend bonus

Individual training and development

Established apprenticeship programme

Team & company social events

Employee assistance programme

Workplace pension

Career progression opportunities

Qualifications

• Previous experience working in a fast-paced kitchen as a Kitchen Assistant.
• Genuine interest in food and excellent customer service.
• Innovation and passion for creating great meals.

Responsibilities

• Work well in a team providing food and service.
• Produce food using fresh ingredients and follow brand standards.
• Ensure adherence to food hygiene and safety policies.

Skills

Customer service

Food preparation

Teamwork

Attention to detail

English proficiency

Job description

Contract: Full Time , Permanent
Salary: £13.91
Hours: 40h per week

A thriving co-educational independent boarding school, catering for boys and girls between the ages of 2 and 16 years of age in Cundall, North Yorkshire. Catering for about 300 students and teachers daily. We offer a core feeding of Breakfast, Lunch and Tea with some hospitality and summer events. This is a term time only contract working 42 weeks, operating Monday to Friday. Additional benefit of free onsite parking available.

We are looking for a talented Kitchen Assistant to join our team at one of our fabulous locations in Cundall.

You will have previous experience of working within a fast-paced kitchen as a Kitchen Assistant.

You will be excited to work with fresh seasonal ingredients & regularly changing bespoke menus. You will be creative and have the opportunity to showcase your skillset.

Key responsibilities:

• To work well in a team, providing food and a great service
• To produce food for service using fresh ingredients, cooking from scratch and following the companies brand standards
• Ensuring company food standards are adhered to and wastage controlled.
• Ensuring all Food Hygiene and Health & Safety policies and allergen control procedures are followed.
• Experience of pot wash duties would be an advantage
• Great team player
• Be able to help the Chefs with some food prep

You will have the following skills:

• A genuine interest in food & excellent customer service
• An all-round team player
• Innovation and passion for great food
• An organised Kitchen Assistant with attention to detail
• 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

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.