Kitchen Porter

**Reports to**:Head Chef

**Location**:Sage Gateshead

**Working hours**:24 hours per week including evenings and weekends

**Salary**:SCP 14 - 16 £7.16 - £9.79 per hour (SCP 14: 20 and under, SCP 15: 21-22, SCP 16: 23+)

**About Sage Gateshead**

We are an international music centre based on the banks of the River Tyne. We are a unique venue where artists from across the world perform and audiences from a wide range of backgrounds come to hear, make, and enjoy all types of music.

We support local people to be creative, to develop a passion for music and put music at the heart of communities. Our artist development programme provides local artists with the opportunities they need to develop a career in music. We support young people to make music in our building and in the wider community through programmes such as In Harmony Newcastle Gateshead.

We believe our work makes life better for people in the North East. We’re building a creative, diverse, and passionate team and that’s where you come in

**About you**

Are you self-motivated, happy working in a team environment and flexible enough to adapt to a changing environment? If this sounds like you, here are some specific types of experience that will help you hit the ground running.

**You must have proven experience of**:

- Working as a kitchen porter in a kitchen environment
- Use of utensil washers

**It also helps if you have**:

- 2-3 years’ experience in a kitchen environment
- HACCP & COSH knowledge

**About the role of**
**Kitchen Porter**
**_ _**
**at Sage Gateshead**

Kitchen porters support the overall operations of the Food & Beverage department by providing support to the kitchen & front of house teams. Kitchen porters are direct representatives of Sage Gateshead. Kitchen Porters provide functional support to the rest of the Food & Beverage team, ensure that cleanliness & hygiene standard are met across the main Food & Beverage areas.

**Your responsibilities**:
**Operational Duties**
- To ensure that hygiene standards are met and exceeded
- To ensure all crockery, cutlery & kitchen equipment are cleaned efficiently & appropriately.
- To ensure all the Kitchen surfaces, walls & floors are cleaned and regularly maintained
- To find appropriate storage for cleaning equipment and chemicals in line with protocols.
- Regularly emptying bins & dispose of in appropriate external bins (i.e. food, recycling)
- Maintaining storage rooms & ensure all products are easily accessible.
- Collecting & signing for deliveries when required
- Assisting with stock rotation
- Comply with all food safety and hygiene measures

**General**
- Develop an excellent knowledge of Sage Gateshead’s programme and audience
- Adhere to all Health & Safety protocols
- Adhere to GDPR guidelines
- Any other duties as reasonably requested of you in your role

**Our commitment to your development**

At Sage Gateshead, we’re always learning. Through training and support, we’ll help you develop the skills and knowledge you need to thrive in your role. This may be through gaining a qualification, on-the-job training or learning within your team.

We provide you with training in areas such as health and safety and safeguarding when you start work, and you’ll receive annual refreshers.

Every staff member is on their own training and development journey. You’ll work closely with your manager to identify what your journey will look like at Sage Gateshead. If you have a specific interest or you would like to develop your skills in a certain area, we want to hear about it.

**Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion**

***At Sage Gateshead, we encourage a working environment that’s welcoming, inclusive, and diverse. Different backgrounds, views and experiences are valued so everyone can be themselves.

Our venue and programmes are for everyone, so we want to make sure this opportunity is available to everyone, no matter your background or the challenges you’ve faced.

For example, we would love to hear from you if you:

- Are D/deaf. Have a disability, learning difficulty or significant long -term health condition which affects your daily life
- Describe yourself as neurodiverse (this might include dyslexia, dyspraxia, dyscalculia, ADHD, autistic spectrum, and others)
- Grew up in a family receiving Universal Credit or state benefits
- Have ever lived in council or social housing or been on the housing register
- Have ever lived in sheltered accommodation or experienced homelessness
- Experienced being in care at any point in your life
- Have been a refugee or asylum seeker
- Are from the African, South, East and South-East Asian, Middle East, Latinx or North African diaspora, or have experienced racism
- These are some common examples of challenging circumstances but there may be others. Everyone is welcome to apply.
- We do not discriminate because of race, colour, religion, gender or gender identity, sexual orientation or expression, age, disability or any other prot