Kitchen Porter

Job Title: Kitchen Porter x2

Salary: £21,850 - £24,663

Location: Cambridge

Contract: Permanent, 35 hours per week

Core hours are Monday to Friday (sociable hours) 

Are you looking for a career in the catering industry? We are currently looking for a Kitchen Porter for our busy site in Cambridge.

This is an exciting opportunity for a Kitchen Porter to join a dynamic and customer-focused catering team, working to deliver excellent service to all Cambridge University Press & Assessment staff, guests and visitors.

We are Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a world-leading academic publisher and assessment organisation and a proud part of the University of Cambridge.

About the role

As a Kitchen Porter you will assist with the day to day running of the stores and logistics, ensuring that data related to the stores are accurate.  You will ensure the highest standards are maintained to continue to keep our customer satisfaction. You will be responsible for maintaining our extremely high Health & Safety standards. You will be responsible for maintaining the daily cleaning of the kitchen and stores

Additional duties include:

• Assist Senior Kitchen Porter with receiving & storing deliveries.
• Maintaining a high standard of food hygiene and cleanliness.
• Work with catering staff to set up servery and display counters.
• Ensure all our areas and catering equipment are clean at all times.
• Training on our cleaning procedures will be given, to maintain our high standards.

About you

The ideal candidate will have experience in working in a busy catering or hospitality environment, ideally some with someKitchen Porter experience, however this is not essential. We are looking for an enthusiastic team player with a positive attitude whilst working in a pressured environment.

For further information on the role, please refer to the Job Description at the end of this page. 

Rewards and benefits

We will support you to be at your best in work and to live well outside of it. In addition to competitive salaries, we offer a world-class, flexible rewards package, featuring family-friendly and planet-friendly benefits including:

• Group personal pension scheme
• Discretionary annual bonus
• Life assurance up to 4 x annual salary
• Private medical and Permanent Health Insurance
• Green travel schemes
• 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays

We will consider any work arrangements if you wish to work flexibly or require adjustments due to a disability.

 Ready to pursue your potential? Apply now.

We review applications on an ongoing basis. With a closing date for applications being Monday 24th June, however, this is a rolling campaign, and therefore we will conduct trail shifts as and when candidates apply. We reserve the right to close this vacancy once we have received sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested in this exciting opportunity, we encourage you to submit your application as early as possible.

Please note that successful applicants will be subject to satisfactory background checks including DBS due to working in a regulated industry.

Cambridge University Press & Assessment is unable to issue sponsorship under the Skilled Worker Visa route for this role as it does not meet the minimum skill and/or salary requirements.

 Why join us.

Joining us is your opportunity to pursue potential. You'll belong to a collaborative team that's exploring new and better ways to serve students, teachers and researchers across the globe – for the benefit of individuals, society and the world. Sharing our mission will inspire your own growth, development and progress, in an environment which embraces difference, change and aspiration. 

Cambridge University Press & Assessment is committed to being a place where anyone can enjoy a successful career, where everyone has a voice, and where we learn continuously to improve together. Ensuring that everyone feels they belong is essential to who we are, and to the contribution we make to society and our planet. 

We believe better outcomes come through diversity of thought, background and approach. We welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and communities, actively seeking to employ people from a wide range of different communities.

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