Kitchen Porter

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

Job summary

A leading independent catering company is seeking a Kitchen Porter to join the team in Slough. The role focuses on maintaining high standards of kitchen hygiene and cleanliness, assisting chefs with food preparation, and ensuring all equipment is properly cleaned and maintained. While kitchen porter experience is preferred, it is not essential. The company offers a supportive environment with various employee benefits, including free meals on duty and a cycle to work scheme.

Benefits

Free meals on duty

Wider wallet scheme (discounts at major retailers)

Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoptive leave

Cycle to work scheme

Recommend a friend bonus

Excellent career progression

Team & company social events

Employee assistance programme

Qualifications

• Kitchen Porter experience preferred, but not essential.
• Strong organization skills are necessary.
• Experience in a customer and/or food preparation environment is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Maintain kitchen hygiene and cleanliness.
• Assist chefs with food prep.
• Clean and maintain kitchen equipment.

Skills

Experience of pot wash duties

Great team player

Ability to demonstrate reasonable/good understanding and use of verbal English

Ability to demonstrate reasonable/good standard of written English and reading skills

Job description

Contract: Full Time , Permanent
Salary: 6100
Hours: 12.5 per week

A co-educational, independent prep school and nursery in Farnham Royal, South Buckinghamshire, for children from 3 to 11 years. Catering for 130 students and teachers daily. We offer a core feeding of morning snack and lunch with some hospitality. This is a term-time only contract working 34 weeks and operates Monday to Friday. Additional benefit of thisier location is free parking on site.

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

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.
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• 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 gente believe greater diversity leads to exceptional results and provides aorghini better working life.