Kitchen Porter

**Position**: Kitchen porter

**Reports to**: Executive Chef

**Salary**: Dependent upon experience

**The Prince’s Foundation**

The Prince’s Foundation provides holistic solutions to challenges facing the world today. We champion a sustainable approach to how we live our lives and build our communities, we run a diverse programme of education and training for all ages and backgrounds, and we regenerate and care for places where communities thrive and that visitors enjoy.

We work nationally and internationally but at the heart of our organisation is the heritage-led regeneration of the Dumfries House estate and its wider community, where our principles and philosophies are explored and put into practice.

The work of The Prince’s Foundation is inspired by The Prince of Wales’s philosophy of harmony: that by understanding the balance, the order and the relationships between ourselves and the natural world we can create a more sustainable future.

**Location**

**Dumfries House Cookschool**

**The Role**:
We are looking for a kitchen Porter. As a Kitchen Porter - you are effectively the engine room of the kitchen. Working under the guidance of a team of chefs, your job is to ensure that the kitchen is clean and operational. Sometimes you may be involved in preparing ingredients, so it’s a great stepping stone to becoming a chef.
- Washing, peeling, chopping, cutting and cooking foodstuffs and helping to prepare salads and desserts
- Disposing of rubbish/recycling
- Organising linen laundry
- Cleaning the food preparation equipment, floors and other kitchen tools or areas
- Completing a daily cleaning rota

**Person Specification**

The essential skills, knowledge and experience required are:
Understanding the importance of health and hygiene

Plenty of stamina

A great team player

The ability to listen and learn

**Other**:

- The post will be based at Dumfries house with the requirement to travel on occasion.
- Your working hours will be variable hours per week
- You must have the legal right to work in the UK.
- Immediate start

**Job Type**: Zero hours contract

**Benefits**:

- On-site parking

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Cumnock, KA18 2NJ: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Work Location: In person