At a Glance
- Tasks: Join our kitchen team, ensuring cleanliness and assisting chefs with food prep.
- Company: A prestigious independent school in Winchester, dedicated to excellence in catering.
- Benefits: Free meals, discounts, training opportunities, and excellent career progression.
- Other info: Enjoy social events and a supportive workplace culture focused on diversity.
- Why this job: Be part of a friendly team and make a real impact in a vibrant environment.
- Qualifications: Kitchen experience preferred but not essential; good communication skills required.
The predicted salary is between 11.7 - 14.3 £ per hour.
A leading independent boarding and day school for girls aged 3 - 18 with a co-ed preschool in Winchester, Hampshire.
Catering for just over 900 students and teachers daily.
Our core feeding offer is breakfast, Mid Morning Snack, Lunch, dinner, Match teas, Hospitality and external lettings throughout the year.
This is a 7 days a week operation so shift patterns would usually be 5 over 7 days.
This location offers a mix of term time roles along with full 52 weeks contracts.
This location benefits from free parking on site.
Kitchen Porter to join our established & friendly team at our prestigious location in
Winchester.
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
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.
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Kitchen Porter 16 hours in Winchester employer: Thomas Franks Ltd
Thomas Franks is an exceptional employer, offering a vibrant work culture where teamwork and passion for food are at the forefront. Located in Maidenhead, this independent day school catering service provides excellent employee benefits, including free meals on duty, unrivalled training opportunities, and a commitment to career progression within a supportive environment. Join us to be part of a dedicated team that values diversity and fosters personal growth while serving our wonderful customers.
