Kitchen Porter

Peoplebank; Dover; On-site; GBP 10,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A prestigious independent school in Dover is looking for a Kitchen Porter to maintain high hygiene standards. Candidates should possess good organisational skills and ideally have experience in a kitchen environment. The role involves assisting chefs, operating kitchen equipment, and ensuring cleanliness. The position offers 40 hours a week with competitive pay and various employee benefits including free meals on duty and training opportunities.

Benefits

Free meals on duty

Discounts at major retailers

Cycle to work scheme

Enhanced leave policies

Social events

Qualifications

• Experience of pot wash duties would be an advantage.
• Ability to help the Chefs with some food prep.
• Ensure high standards of cleanliness at all times.

Responsibilities

• Keep the kitchen hygienic and safe.
• Clean and maintain all kitchen equipment.
• Operate industrial dishwasher.

Skills

Kitchen Porter experience

Organisation Skills

Verbal English understanding

Written English skills

Job description

Contract: Full Time , Permanent
Salary: £ 12.21 per hour
Hours: 40 per week

A fabulous co-educational independent boarding school for children with military traditions. Set in 150 acres of Kent countryside near Dover. Catering for about 570 students and teachers. We offer a core feeding of AM snack, Lunch, PM snack, Supper and a 6th form cafe. There will be a good amount of hospitality offering at this location. This school operates 7 days a week so working patterns are 5 out of 7 days and has additional benefits of free parking and use of on site gym.

We are recruiting 2 KP roles.

1x 40 hours per week 49.6 weeks per year including paid holidays

1x 40 hours per week 41.8 weeks per year indcluding paid holidays

Shift timings are either 0700 - 1500 OR 1130 - 2000

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

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.
• 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.