Kitchen Assistant

1 week ago


Taunton, United Kingdom Thomas Franks Ltd Full time

**Kitchen Assistant**:
**Somerset**:
**Contract**:Permanent**
**Salary**:10.42 per hour****:
A co-educational independent day and boarding school in Wellington, Somerset for pupils aged 3 to 18. Catering for 800 students and teachers with 220 boarders. We offer a core feeding of breakfast club, mid morning snack, lunch, after school clubs, dinner, house supplies and boarding treats. This is a term-time plus contract working 36.6 weeks a year. This is a 7-day operation, the working pattern would be Monday to Friday within the prep school. Additional benefit of this location is free on-site parking.

We are looking for a talented **Kitchen Assistant** to join our team at one of our fabulous locations in **Somerset.**

You will have previous experience of working within a fast-paced kitchen as a Kitchen Assistant.

You will be excited to work with fresh seasonal ingredients & regularly changing bespoke menus. You will be creative and have the opportunity to showcase your skillset.

**Key responsibilities**:

- To work well in a team, providing food and a great service
- To produce food for service using fresh ingredients, cooking from scratch and following the companies brand standards
- Ensuring company food standards are adhered to and wastage controlled.
- Ensuring all Food Hygiene and Health & Safety policies and allergen control procedures are followed.
- Experience of pot wash duties would be an advantage
- Excellent customer service skills
- Great team player
- Be able to help the Chefs with some food prep

**You will have the following skills**:

- A genuine interest in food & excellent customer service
- An all-round team player
- Innovation and passion for great food
- An organised Kitchen Assistant with attention to detail

**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
- 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.

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.

**Diversity and Inclusion at Thomas Franks


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