Kitchen Assistant

Vibe Recruit is currently recruiting for Pot Washers / Kitchen Assistants to join a busy and welcoming events venue in the Cwmbran area.

The venue hosts a wide variety of events throughout the year, including weddings, funerals, golf events, baby showers and private functions. This is a varied role supporting the kitchen team and helping to ensure events run smoothly.

We are looking for reliable, hardworking individuals who are comfortable working in a busy kitchen environment and are happy to get stuck in wherever needed.

As a Pot Washer / Kitchen Assistant, you will provide essential support to the chefs and wider kitchen team.

Your duties will include:

• Making sandwiches and carrying out basic food preparation
• Helping and supporting the chefs with day-to-day kitchen duties
• Washing pots, pans, utensils and kitchen equipment
• Cleaning and maintaining the kitchen to a high standard
• Keeping kitchen areas clean, tidy and organised
• Assisting with preparation for events
• Following food hygiene, health and safety procedures

About You

Ideally, you will have around 2 years' experience in a kitchen, catering or hospitality environment, although attitude and reliability are just as important.

You will need to be:

• Reliable, punctual and hardworking
• Comfortable working in a busy kitchen
• Happy carrying out pot washing and cleaning duties
• Able to work well as part of a team
• Willing to support the chefs and take on a variety of tasks
• Organised and able to work at pace when required
• Flexible regarding working hours and start times
• Professional and well presented
• Full-time
• Approximately 35 hours per week
• Monday to Sunday
• Shifts will generally fall between 10am and 10pm, although flexibility with start times is essential
• Rotas are provided one week in advance
• Start times may vary depending on the events taking place
• For example, if the venue has an event starting at 10am, staff may be required to start earlier to assist with kitchen preparation.
• Due to the venue's location, applicants must have their own reliable transport and be able to travel to and from the venue independently.

What We Offer

• £12.71 per hour
• Approximately 35 hours per week
• Full-time hours
• Temp-to-perm opportunity for the right candidates
• Varied work supporting a wide range of events
• The opportunity to become part of a friendly and busy kitchen team

If you're hardworking, reliable and enjoy working as part of a busy kitchen team, we'd love to hear from you.

Vibe Recruit is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.