Kitchen Assistant - within the school calendar dates

Kitchen Assistant - within the school calendar dates

Dover

Contract : Full Time , Permanent

Salary : 20,415.12

Hours : 40 per week

A fabulous co-educational independent boarding school for children with military traditions. Set in 150 acres of Kent countryside near Dover. Catering for about 570 students and teachers. We offer a core feeding of AM snack, Lunch, PM snack, Supper and a 6th form cafe. There will be a good amount of hospitality offering at this location. Contracts vary from 52 weeks to 44 weeks per year. This school operates 7 days a week so working patterns are 5 out of 7 days and has additional benefits of free parking and use of on site gym.

We are looking for a Kitchen Assistant to join our team at one of our prestigious locations in Dover .

If you are currently a kitchen assistant or want to train and develop a career in the kitchen then please apply today.

Key responsibilities :

• To work well in a team, providing breakfast, lunch, supper & hospitality.
• To assist in food preperation using fresh ingredients and following the companies brand standards.
• To rotate and restock fridges, freezers, dry stores and assist with deliveries.
• Ensuring company food standards are adhered to and wastage controlled.
• Ensure high standards of cleanliness at all times
• Ensure the kitchen is left clean and tidy to the required standard of the Chef Manager or to the hygiene standards set by the company / Client.
• Ensuring all Food Hygiene and Health & Safety policies and allergen control procedures are followed.
• Excellent customer service skills
• Great team player

You will have the following skills :

Knowledge / competencies

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

Benefits

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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