Kitchen Assistant

Your Role

We are expanding our production team working in our amazing new production kitchen. We are on the look out for a Kitchen Assistant to work with our production kitchen team which could be a part time role of 30 hours per week or up to full time 40 hours depending on what you are looking for

This role will be Monday to Friday with occasional weekend work, hours will be available between 08:00am – 17:00pm with a particular need for help with clearing down at the end of the day.

Working with our Senior Production Chef to produce our product range of core items and seasonal offerings you will be taking care of cleanliness, washing kitchen equipment and supporting with some preparation duties. Please take a look at our Farm Shop website for all of our products

Your duties will include providing clean, dry equipment for our team of chefs to use in the kitchen. Assisting with maintaining cleanliness standards throughout the kitchen and preparation areas. Assisting our chef team with food preparation. Helping the chefs ensure that food standards and hygiene is strictly followed at all times including during opening and closing of the kitchen

Experience in a similar role would be great, but if you have the passion and ambition to develop your skills then you can count on us to show you the rest.

This role will be based at Westbury, Wiltshire.

What's in it for you?

• Competitive Rates of pay + Generous Tips
• Flexible hours - let us know what works for you and we'll flex the best we can
• 30 days holiday inc. bank holidays, pro rata for part time
• Free annual guest experience for you and a plus one, including 3-course meal, cocktails and a bottle of wine. It's important we experience the magic too
• Enhanced family-friendly policies, including 12 weeks full pay Maternity leave and 2 weeks full pay Paternity leave. These moments matter
• Health cash plan – a health benefit which allows you to claim back your everyday medical expenses like Dentists and Prescriptions
• Life Assurance – £25,000
• Generous Artfarm-wide discounts including;
• • Up to 50% off room booking at the award-winning Independent Hotel of the Year 2021, The Fife Arms
• Up to 25% off food and beverage across our properties in Somerset, Scottish Highlands, Los Angeles and London
• Up to 30% off our fabulous retail products
• High street discounts off 1000's retailers through MyArtfarm site and app.
• Amazing socials - bowling, pizza nights or just a walk in the local countryside – there's something for everyone.
• A unique approach to career development and learning opportunities tailored around your individual aspirations and goals.
• Employee Assistance Programme with Hospitality Action
• Enhanced pension scheme to help you save into your piggy bank for the future
• Option to save directly from payroll into an ISA to enhance financial wellbeing
• Generous Refer a Friend Scheme – up to £1000 to share with your friend

About Westbury & Farm Shop

Farm Shop is a community farm shop which celebrates the best growers, farmers, makers and artisans its area has to offer. Inspired by Durslade Farm's fresh and seasonal produce which is shared between our Somerset & London sites it was created to share this harvest more widely, from meat and fruit to vegetables and foraged finds. It promotes and shares local talent, supporting small projects with big futures and working with established ones to create special products that can only be found there. The team believes in building long-lasting relationships and are always looking for like-minded partners to support and stock.

Westbury is our distribution centre in Somerset which completes all of the E-Commerce sales and sends out stock to our various locations across the UK. The team here work very closely with the farm and the suppliers to maintain the correct levels of stock to fulfil both customer and internal orders.

About Artfarm

Artfarm is a one-of-a-kind independent hospitality company founded by Iwan and Manuela Wirth. Renowned for developing and reinventing distinctive sites including the award-winning Fife Arms Hotel in Braemar, Manuela restaurant in Los Angeles, and Roth Bar and Farm Shop in Somerset. Artfarm uniquely brings together art, community, education, people and place.

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