Kitchen Porter

Job Introduction

We currently have an opportunity for a Kitchen Porter to join our team. This is a great opportunity for a customer focused individual to join a world leading food and facilities management company, which can offer unrivalled opportunities for career progression.

Role Responsibility

1. To ensure that the Company and Statutory regulations regarding health, safety and hygiene are complied with.
2. To ensure that the Company’s standards of cleanliness are achieved and maintained.
3. To maintain the Company’s standards of hygiene and cleanliness.
4. To maintain the cleanliness of the stores and refrigerator areas.
5. To ensure that foods and non-food products are correctly put away in rotation.
6. To undertake any reasonable requests by Management.
7. To assist with basic food preparation as required.
8. To assist at special functions, some of which may occasionally occur outside normal working hours.
9. To always maintain a high standard of dress and behaviour.
10. To ensure standards within the food offer are maintained
11. To report any complaint or compliment.
12. To report any incident of accident, fire, theft, loss, damage and take action as may be appropriate.
13. To ensure that all aspects of the Food Safety Act 1990 are adhered to.
14. To attend training sessions and staff meetings.

The Ideal Candidate

Essential

1. Literate and Numerate
2. Ability to  communicate effectively with customers, clients, and staff
3. Ability to work well under pressure
4. Ability to achieve performance criteria.
5. Positive approach to learning in role
6. Self-motivated
7. Sense of own initiative
8. Ability to work effectively as part of a team
9. Flexible approach to role
10.  
11. Desirable
12. Hygiene qualification, or equivalent
13. Previous catering experience

Package Description

Christmas Off!     No Split Shifts!      Work only 7 out of 14 days in term time!

Come and join us as a Kitchen Porter in our big and friendly team at the Clifton College site in Bristol in our recently refurbished, well equipped kitchen providing catering services in a 7-day-a-week boarding and day school. Your role involves cleaning catering equipment and fixtures, operating dishwashing equipment, handling of and disposing of waste. There will be some basic food handling tasks as well as manual handling tasks. We do not operate with split shifts, and we close between Christmas and New Year During term time and some school holidays shifts are long (12 hours) but are arranged across a 2 week period working 3 days in the first week and 4 days in the second week, meaning you are working 7 days out of 14.

We also aim during term time to offer every other weekend off. During other school holiday times we generally operate on a Monday to Friday basis where we can. Generally early shifts start at 7am, late shifts typically finish at 8pm.

Paid Overtime is sometimes available to cover absences such as holidays. Flexibility would be required for function work. You will have a great passion for food and team engagement. Access to a workplace apprenticeship is also possible for an individual looking to upskill and develop. Background in school catering and/or a large catering environment would be advantageous but not essential

About the Company

In the UK and Ireland, Sodexo employs some 35,000 employees to deliver integrated facilities management services to clients at over 2,000 locations in the corporate, healthcare, education, leisure, defence and justice sectors.

With an annual turnover of over £1bn, we provide everything from catering, cleaning and reception to security, laboratory and grounds maintenance services, enabling our clients to focus on their core business.

Sodexo is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and adults within a regulated activity. Certain roles will require applicants to undergo screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) and/ or Disclosure Scotland (Scotland).