Kitchen Porter

**Salary**

£15,768-£16,030

**Contractual hours**

30

**Basis**

Part Time/Term Time

**Package**

Excellent Benefits

**Job category/type**

Support Staff

**Date posted**

04/10/2024

**Job reference**

2020OC0933

**The Role**:
We are looking for a dedicated **Kitchen Porter** to join our team. In this role, you will be responsible for maintaining hygiene, assisting with food preparation, and supporting the smooth running of our kitchen. You’ll play a key role in providing high standards of cleanliness and customer service.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Assist with food preparation and beverage services.
- Maintain cleanliness and hygiene in all kitchen and dining areas.
- Heavy lifting and transportation of food, deliveries, and stock.
- Handle cash/card payments and keep accurate sales records.
- Follow food safety and allergen legislation, ensuring compliance at all times.
- Promote excellent customer service and communication.
- Clean and maintain kitchen equipment, including vending and coffee machines.
- Adhere to cleaning schedules and complete relevant documentation (HAACP, temperature logs).

**Skills and Experience Required**:

- Willingness to obtain Level 2 Food Hygiene qualification and Manual Handling training within four weeks of starting.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
- Strong communication skills with a focus on customer service.

**Joining our Journey**:

- When you join our college, not only will you benefit from an annual reviewed salary but have access to numerous benefits and facilities:_
- Generous Pension Scheme
- Fantastic Staff Benefits and Rewards platform
- Very generous holiday entitlement
- Employee Assistance Scheme
- Enhanced Maternity/Paternity provision
- Staff Development days/week (Jan, July, Aug)
- Free confidential counselling service
- Staff recognition awards
- Car Scheme
- Subsidised car parking
- On-site Day Nursery
- On-site hair and beauty salon

Oldham College is a great career choice for ambitious professionals. With a “good” Ofsted rating, one of the best apprenticeship programmes in the region, excellent 16-18 results and truly outstanding GCSE English results, we are already a high performer.

But we want to deliver much more than this. Our ambition is to be “The Best Place to Learn and Work” and we have a clear Strategic Plan which sets out what this means and what we will do to deliver it. We will keep on improving and innovating, and we are investing in new provision, new facilities, and new technology; including our state-of-the-art clinical simulation suite.

The role will require you to embed and work to the college’s values; working with Integrity, having Ambition to help our learners succeed and being Inclusive to learners and colleagues alike.

We understand that not everyone works to the same timetable, and offer a range of flexible working options, including flexible start and finish times, part-time, term-time only or hybrid options, where the role permits.

Oldham College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share in this commitment.

Further details including a Person Specification are included within the attached Job Description.