Kitchen Porter

**Role**

Kitchen Porter

**Reporting to**

Head Chef

**Contract**

Permanent 30 hour contract

**Salary**

National Minimum Wage
- age appropriate

**Context**:
The Park Head Hotel & Restaurant offers 38 en suite rooms, private dining or conference area, al fresco terrace and courtyard and a relaxed bar and restaurant area perfect for visitors to Bishop Auckland and the wider County Durham area, as well as local residents to provide a fantastic visitor experience locally. Guests can enjoy great food, smooth coffee, newly refurbished accommodation and high levels of service and attention to detail, supported by local suppliers to deliver an excellent experience.

Under ownership by The Auckland Project, your base will be The Park Head Hotel & Restaurant with the opportunity to work elsewhere within the organisation on occasion, supporting the wider team on other diverse areas of the project. The Auckland Project is working to create positive change for those living, working and visiting Bishop Auckland.

**The role purpose**:
This is an exciting opportunity to be at the heart of the Auckland Project. As a member of the kitchen team, you will work alongside our chefs and food and beverage team members to ensure the smooth day to day running of the Hotel, ensuring the kitchen team members have the tools available to complete their work and maintain a safe and hygienic environment.

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, 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 preparation of food
- 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
- Ability to work in an organised and efficient manner
- 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