Kitchen Porter - No late nights

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Perth, Scotland, United Kingdom

Contract:

Full Time, Permanent

Salary: £12.95 per hour

Hours:

40 per week

A co‑educational independent boarding school in Perth and Kinross, Scotland, serving children aged between 12 and 18 years. Catering to just under 400 pupils and staff daily, we offer breakfast, lunch and supper along with high‑end hospitality and summer lets. The school operates 7 days a week; working patterns are 5 out of 7 days. Free parking is available on site.

Shift Patterns – 5 over 7 days

Shift timings – between 0700 and 2000

We are recruiting 2 positions: one for 40 hours per week and one for 25 hours per week.

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

You will play a vital role in keeping the kitchen hygienic, safe, and up to our very high standards of cleanliness.

• Experience of pot wash duties would be an advantage
• Excellent customer service skills
• Great team player
• Ability 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

• Kitchen Porter experience is preferred, but not essential.
• Can do attitude.
• Organisation Skills.

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

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.

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 PVG, Identity & reference checks (covering the last five years) will form part of the selection process. As an organisation using the Protecting Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Disclosure service to assess applicants' suitability for positions of trust, Thomas Franks Ltd complies fully with the PVG 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.

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.