Kitchen Porter

Serco Group plc; Newport; On-site; GBP 12,000 - 21,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading service provider is seeking a Kitchen Porter to support the kitchen team at the Lilleshall National Sports Centre. Responsible for food preparation, cleaning, and ensuring kitchen safety standards. Ideal candidates will have some kitchen experience and strong attention to detail. This part-time role offers flexible shifts within a supportive team environment alongside excellent benefits including a free gym membership and staff discounts.

Benefits

Free Gym membership

Staff meal, physio discounts

Up to 6% contributory pension scheme

Serco discounts for entertainment and shopping

Varied and enjoyable work

Recognition of contribution

Qualifications

• Demonstrate experience and knowledge within a kitchen environment.
• Hold a level 1 food safety award (desirable).
• Be thorough and pay attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Support the chefs within the kitchen environment.
• Basic food preparation, washing up, and cleaning.
• Deep clean fridges and storerooms.

Skills

Experience in kitchen environment

Attention to detail

Ability to work well with hands

Patience

Ability to remain calm in stressful situations

Teamwork

Education

Level 1 Food Safety Award

Job description

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Job title: Kitchen Porter

Location: Lilleshall National Sports & Conferencing Centre

Job type: Permanent, Part Time

Working Hours: 30 hours per week, between Monday to Sunday, 4 shifts of 7.5 hours, shift times with needs of the business, but earliest start is 7am and latest finish 9.30pm

Salary: £12,597.73 to £20,373.28 per annum + Excellent Benefits

Are you looking for a job that provides an opportunity to break into the catering and hospitality industry while providing a stable income and regular shifts? If so, you are in luck as we are recruiting for a kitchen porter, and this role can provide all these things and more.

Here at Lilleshall our goal is to get more people, more active, more often. We provide affordable access to a wide range of sports and leisure facilities to support healthier and happier people across all segments of the local community. To deliver those services takes an enthusiastic and customer focused team.

Lilleshall is one of Sport England’s National Sports Centres and is home to a number of National Governing Bodies of Sport. Lilleshall provides excellent facilities to Britain’s leading sports men and women. We are also a Conferencing and Event Centre, boasting a large number of recently refurbished rooms and outdoor spaces for weddings, corporate events, and team‑building days.

As the Kitchen porter, the purpose of your role is supporting the chefs within the kitchen environment. The role is made up of varying responsibilities which include basic food preparation, washing up, cleaning, and clearing all kitchen areas, unloading, and putting away deliveries, emptying bins, sweeping, and mopping floors, ensuring all equipment is clean and put away correctly and deep cleaning fridges and storerooms to maintain sanitary and kitchen safety standards.

You will help in facilitating a safe, fun, and professional working environment with free access to the leisure facilities, various discounts, and excellent development opportunities.

About You

The successful candidate should be able to demonstrate a level of experience and knowledge within a kitchen environment and it’s desirable that you hold a level 1 food safety award.

You will be thorough and pay attention to detail, have the ability to work well with your hands, be patient and be able to remain calm in stressful situations, as well as being able to work on your own and within a team.

Why Serco

A place you can make an impact: Working within Leisure means that you’ll play a critical role in ensuring that the communities we serve receive exceptional service and you’ll help to provide our local communities with a safe and fun environment to stay healthy and connected to others.

A place you can count on: It takes a diverse team to support our Leisure business and we’re big on internal progression. So, whether you specialise your skills, undertake additional training or progress into senior management you’ll find all the opportunity you need to evolve your career.

A place for you: Our staff are dedicated to providing the best possible service for our customers and we welcome those who take similar pride in their work.

What We Offer

• Free Gym membership
• Staff meal, physio discounts
• Up to 6% contributory pension scheme
• Serco discounts which include cinema, merlin entertainment, online shopping, mobile phone plans and leisure centre memberships
• Interesting, varied, and enjoyable work
• A company that recognises your contribution
• All Leisure Benefits - Employee Benefits (moreleisure.com)

About Serco

At Serco, not only is the nature of the work we do important, everyone has an important role to play, from caring for vulnerable people to managing complex public services. We are a team of 50,000 people responsible for delivering essential public services around the world in areas including defence, transport, justice, immigration, healthcare and citizen services. We are innovators, committed to redesigning and improving public services for the benefit of everyone.