Kitchen Porter

**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

**The Auckland Project**

The Auckland Project works hard to create a positive change for those living, working and visiting Bishop Auckland. We have created a visitor destination in Bishop Auckland, incorporating Auckland Castle (once home to the Prince Bishops of Durham), a Spanish Art Gallery, Faith Museum, Walled Garden, Deer Park, Mining Art Gallery, Auckland Tower visitor centre and Weardale Railway.

Our visitor destination and community development programme broadly fits into three areas:

- The **social environment**: we help individuals and communities by creating a sense of curiosity, hope and faith in themselves and the world around them. We provide opportunities for skills development and partnerships, building a year-round tourist market and supporting small creative industries to thrive
- The **natural environment**: we protect, sustain and enhance the world around us
- The **built environment**: we restore and enhance the beauty and historic significance of the buildings, structures and assets in our care.

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

**How to Apply**

**Closing date: Monday 6th October 2025 at midnight**

Pay: £10.00-£12.21 per hour

Expected hours: 1 - 37.5 per week

Work Location: In person