Kitchen Porter - RHS Garden Wisley

What you'll be doing:

Job Title: Kitchen Porter
Location: Wisley RHS Garden

Salary: £12.95 per hour
Contract: Zero-hour, 16-hour, and 40-hour contracts available. Working across venues that have a 7 day a week operation. Weekend and evening work is required. 

We’re always on the lookout for enthusiastic Kitchen Porters to join our fantastic, fast-paced catering team at RHS Garden Wisley.

Set within 240 acres of stunning gardens, Wisley is open all year round and offers a variety of food outlets, from a busy restaurant to welcoming cafés. You’ll be joining a friendly, hardworking team with a shared goal: delivering exceptional service to every visitor.

As a Kitchen Porter, you’ll play a key role in ensuring our kitchen runs smoothly and efficiently. Working behind the scenes, you’ll provide essential support to the wider team while maintaining the highest standards of cleanliness, organisation, and safety. Your responsibilities will include ensuring all dishes, utensils, and kitchen equipment are cleaned and ready for service, keeping kitchen and storage areas clean, organised, and safe, assisting with basic food preparation tasks as required, supporting chefs with deliveries, stock handling, and rotation, and upholding strict hygiene, health, and food safety standards at all times.

Due to the location of Wisley RHS Garden it is essential that you are able to get to and from site without relying on public transport.

Apply today to join our team!

Shifts:

Shifts will vary between Monday to Sunday. Due to the nature of the business, successful candidates should be flexible and able to work evenings and weekends. 

The Ideal Candidate:

• Have a passion for delivering outstanding service, with a skill of getting tasks completed efficiently and effectively.
• Take initiative and make decisions that are right for our customers
• Be an excellent team player with great communication skills
• Have a desire to succeed in your role
• Possess the ability to work under pressure
• Demonstrate exceptional timekeeping and reliability
• Have a safety-first mindset 

 What we can offer you:

We ensure you're rewarded for all your hard work, which is why we offer a comprehensive benefits package which includes but is not limited to:

• Free meals
• Onsite free car parking
• Contributory pension scheme
• Grow your career with our Career Pathways and MyLearning programmes

Interview Process:

Our next Interview Session will be held in April. We will be in touch after Easter if you have been selected for an Interview.

About Us:

Restaurant Associates is a leading premium hospitality provider with an ethos drawn from our history of fine and high-quality dining in London and New York.

Within our venues team, we provide catering and hospitality services to some of the most iconic visitor attractions and destinations in the UK including the Imperial War Museum London, Glyndebourne Opera House, Knebworth House, Design Museum, Whipsnade Zoo and many more. Within these amazing venues we operate a host of bespoke cafés and restaurants, as well as delivering private events ranging from small meetings to large-scale ground events of up to 1000 people. You can find a full list of our venues on our website.

We pride ourselves on being an inclusive, diverse, fun, and dynamic place to work with opportunities to collaborate with a wide range of teams plus a commitment to putting our people first.  Restaurant Associates is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes applications from candidates of all backgrounds. As a business, we are committed to sustainability led practices and are proud to have achieved 3 stars with the Sustainable Restaurant Association’s Food Made Good Programme.