Kitchen Porter
Stokes Tea and Coffee are now searching for an enthusiastic, driven team members who understand the importance and joy of food and customer service and supporting a kitchen team experience.
Who We Are
The award-winning Stokes Tea & Coffee has over 120 years of passion and know-how in sourcing, roasting and blending its tea and coffee, supplying businesses locally and across the UK. We operate three destination cafés across Lincolnshire. Each café offers a unique ambience, quality produce and of course the best coffee, which we roast on site, at The Lawn. Alongside this, our sister companies, The Blue Room and Charlotte House Hotel, offer beautiful event spaces to suit every visitor and occasion, so there are plenty of career opportunities to explore.
At Stokes we are passionate about our people, customers and communities and are constantly evolving to meet the challenges of a changing world, ethically, sustainably and responsibly. We have committed to use business as a force of good as part of our BCorp Certification journey. We want to partner and grow with our team members by offering a supportive work environment that provides better work-life balance, a learning culture to enhance skills, share knowledge and develop your career, as well as offer fair reward. Our management, barista and kitchen pathways are open to all team members who consistently demonstrate Stokes's behaviours and values.
What You'll Be Doing
As a Stokes Kitchen Porter, you will be part of a friendly, organized team, well-known for producing quality, locally sourced, seasonal food and superb service. This is a fantastic opportunity to extend your work experience and knowledge, as we offer a fantastic training and development program for those looking to progress. Ideally, you will be accustomed to a fast-paced environment and will be able to diligently and systematically work throughout service.
All of our cafes open 7 days a week, with weekend working essential.
What We Are Looking For
You will be a focused team-player who understands the critical importance of the kitchen porter role to the effective service of the café. Your work ethic is exemplary, with your instinct to help and support your team, all whilst maintaining a positive attitude.
Join us on this next exciting chapter of our journey and become part of the family.
Essential Requirements
* Previous experience of working in kitchens is desirable
* Team player with outstanding work ethic
* Ability to work calmly, confidently and effectively in a high-pressured environment
* Naturally organised and shares knowledge and skills.
* Flexibility required across the week with regular weekend working and some limited evening shifts
* To apply you must be able to work in the UK
What we offer
* Daytime hours (7.30am-4pm)
* Paid for each hour of work
* Enhanced annual leave entitlement
* Christmas Day and Boxing Day, New Year's Day Off
* Free food and drinks at work
* Reward & Recognition Schemes
* Training and Development including a Management Pathway
* Employee Assistance Programme
* Health and Wellbeing Programme
* Employee high-street discounts
* In-store discounts
* Staff socials
* Supportive team environment
* Workplace pension scheme
* Cycle to work scheme
* Bereavement Leave
How to apply
Please send an up-to-date and relevant CV, along with a statement setting out why you would be amazing in this role. If you want to stand out from the crowd, you can send 1 minute video to -
We are fortunate to have hugely positive responses to our campaigns, and whilst we try to reply to all our lovely candidates, if you have not been contacted within two weeks, your application has unfortunately not been progressed.
Stokes values a diverse and inclusive workforce and resolutely believes that this can bring fresh ideas, thinking and approaches to the way we work and better serve our customers, partners and employees. We welcome everyone from everywhere to come and join our team. Please let us know if we can support you in any specific ways to apply to join us.
Job Types: Part-time, Zero hours contract
Pay: Up to £12.21 per hour
Benefits:
* Additional leave
* Bereavement leave
* Company events
* Company pension
* Cycle to work scheme
* Discounted or free food
* Employee discount
Application question(s):
* Tell us why you want this role.
* This role requires weekend working and flexibility in your timetable. Do you have any commitments that impact your availability that we need to understand?
* Tell us how many hours you would ideally like to work as a minimum.
Work Location: In person