Kitchen Porter

**The role purpose**:
Newly re-opened following substantial investment, The Park Head Hotel & Restaurant are pleased to be recruiting a kitchen porter to join our busy Operations team. You will support the food and beverage team alongside all departments to ensure the smooth day to day running over the Hotel. This at times may include supporting other venues/events within The Auckland Project.

Shifts will cover Monday-Sunday, various early/late Shifts including weekends and bank holidays.

**In return**:
We pride ourselves in taking care of our team members. For your efforts we offer free parking on site, 30 days annual leave (pro rata), pension contribution, access to staff discounts and local benefits, uniform provided, staff discounts/entry into our attractions.

**Key Responsibilities**:
The post-holder is responsible for the following key deliverables and accountabilities:

- Ensure all dishes and kitchen equipment are clean, floors mopped, bins emptied and the dishwasher area is cleaned and drained.
- To assist the kitchen team in ensuring a clean and tidy working environment compliant with EHO and company standards
- Washing large pieces of kitchen equipment for use by Chefs, ensuring a swift turnaround for re-use by using the dishwasher or handwashing
- Emptying rubbish into correctly allocated containers
- Ensure all crockery, cutlery, tools and equipment are thoroughly cleaned and stored in the correct place
- Be able to work as part of a team, communicating effectively at all levels and be able to follow company procedures correctly and willingly
- Be able to help out with some basic kitchen prep
- Maintain a high level of personal hygiene and ensure that correct clean uniform and personal protective equipment are worn at all times.
- Ensure a safe and clean working environment during and at the end of each shift by sweeping and mopping floors, washing walls and surfaces and general tidying and cleaning
- Assist with deliveries when required
- To ensure good health and safety and access practice, ensuring familiarity and compliance with our policies, procedures and guidelines and the health and safety of visitors, staff, volunteers and contractors at all times.
- Strict adherence to health and safety policies and procedures and GDPR compliance
- Any other duties specified by your Line Managers or Directors

**Internal and External Relationships**
- Working collaboratively with colleagues across departments to achieve our organisational objectives
- Maintain excellent relationships with the large team of volunteers and colleagues

**Health & Safety**

Be committed to good health and safety and access practice, ensuring familiarity and compliance with our policies, procedures and guidelines and the health and safety of visitors, staff, volunteers and contractors at all times.

**Person Specification**:
Essential Criteria
- Work tidy
- Be driven and not afraid of hard work
- Good personal hygiene

Desirable Criteria
- Work experience in a similar kitchen environment

**About The Auckland Project**

The Auckland Project is working to create positive change for those living, working and visiting Bishop Auckland. To do so we are creating a visitor destination in Bishop Auckland, incorporating Auckland Castle (once home to the Prince Bishops of Durham), a Spanish Gallery, Faith Museum, Walled Garden, Deer Park, Mining Art Gallery, Auckland Tower visitor centre and Weardale Railway. The Park Head Hotel will offer visitors a high quality, good value base to explore the town and wider area.

Our visitor destination and community development programme broadly fits into four areas:
To help **individuals** by creating a sense of aspiration as well as providing opportunities for skills development

To help the **community** to become resilient and economically sound by creating opportunities for partnerships, building a year-round tourist market and supporting small creative industries to thrive

To protect, sustain and enhance our **natural environment**

4. To restore and enhance the beauty and historic significance of the **built environment**.

By working with us, you are helping to ensure the town’s future is as magnificent and vibrant as its past.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Salary**: £5.28-£10.42 per hour

**Benefits**:

- Discounted or free food
- Employee discount
- Free parking
- On-site parking
- Sick pay

Schedule:

- Day shift
- Monday to Friday
- Night shift
- Weekend availability

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Bishop Auckland: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Work Location: In person