Job Title: Kitchen Porter Staff
Department: Restaurant
Reports To: Kitchen Manager
Responsible For: n/a
Rate of Pay: £15.00/hr (plus holiday pay)
Dates of Work: 30th May 2025 – 22nd June 2025
Available Contracts: Various minimum hour contracts available (6-20 hrs per week)
The Nevill Holt Festival is an arts and culture festival held in the Leicestershire countryside each June. Building on a decade of opera performances, the festival now includes opera, concerts, conversations, performances, art exhibitions, family events and open gardens.
We're looking for a Restaurant team to look after our restaurant at the festival.
Role
- Food Preparation Assistance: Helping with basic food preparation tasks like washing, peeling, and chopping vegetables.
- Inventory Management: Helping to organize food storage areas and track inventory levels.
- Delivery Handling: Unloading and unpacking deliveries, ensuring they are stored correctly.
- Equipment Maintenance: Assisting with cleaning and maintaining kitchen equipment.
- General Porterage: Emptying bins, taking out garbage, and cleaning up spills.
- Dishwashing: Washing dishes, pots, pans, cutlery, and other utensils, ensuring they are clean and ready for use.
- Cleaning and Sanitation: Cleaning kitchen surfaces, including countertops, floors, walls, and appliances, and sanitizing them to meet food safety regulations.
Person Specification
- Confident, enthusiastic, professional and self-motivated.
- Good, clear verbal communication skills.
- Ability to work calmly and efficiently under pressure.
- Ability to recognise potential health and safety issues before they arise.
- Demonstrable knowledge of customer service principles.
- Accuracy and attention to detail.
- Excellent timekeeping skills.
- Positive and flexible approach.
- Ability to work effectively in a team whilst also being able to work independently.
Equal Opportunities
Underbelly is committed to reducing its environmental impacts in its everyday operations. We are also committed to maintaining the open-access policy of Underbelly. We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome applications from all sectors of the community.
It is the policy of Underbelly to ensure that no job applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, race, religion or belief, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, or is disadvantaged by conditions or requirements that cannot be shown to be justifiable.
We expect employees to support these commitments and to assist in their realisation.