Kitchen Porter
Avanti Fields School, Leicester, LE5 0BX6 days remaining to apply
Start date details
November 2026
Closing date
18 October 2026 at 11:59pm
Date listed
12 October 2026
Job details
Job role
- Catering, cleaning and site management
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: Refer to job description
Contract type
- Permanent
Hourly rate
- £12.71 per hour
What skills and experience we're looking for
About The Role
At Govinda’s Catering, we believe food should nourish the body, mind and soul, creating positive experiences through wholesome, thoughtfully prepared vegetarian meals.
We’re seeking a dedicated Kitchen Porter to join Avanti Schools Trust Central Team at Avanti Fields, helping us deliver this vision through excellent kitchen support, high standards of hygiene and efficient service.
This is an opportunity to play an important behind-the-scenes role in creating a clean, organised and welcoming environment for our school community.
School visits are welcomed and encouraged. Please contact the school to arrange a suitable time.
What will you do?
- Maintain high standards of cleanliness and hygiene across all kitchen, food preparation, packing and storage areas, including moving equipment and furniture as required.
- Support the kitchen team with food preparation, meal packing and the timely provision of meals and refreshments for students, staff and hospitality events.
- Receive, handle, store and rotate deliveries and stock, ensuring accurate stock control and the correct management of waste and recycling.
- Work collaboratively with the Chef Manager and wider catering team to ensure the smooth, efficient and consistent delivery of a high-quality catering service.
- Follow all food safety, health and safety and hygiene procedures, including temperature controls and risk assessments, and promptly report any hazards, defects or near misses, while being physically able to undertake manual handling and heavy lifting.
What are we looking for?
- Good Organizational Skills
- The ability to work unsupervised in a busy environment
- Ability to follow strict instructions in a systematic and consistent manner
- Commitment to the safeguarding and welfare of all students
Please view the full Job Description for more information on the responsibilities and essential criteria required for this role.
What the school offers its staff
This is an exciting opportunity to join a fast-growing Multi Academy Trust with schools based in London, the midlands and the South West of England. All Avanti schools provide pupils with an outstanding education rooted in the inclusive and distinctive Avanti Schools ethos of educational excellence, character development, and spiritual insight.
Why should you apply
Avanti exists to help each person become a well-rounded human being through intellectual, moral and spiritual growth, and so make the world a better place.
- You will be working in a fantastic environment, with:
- Great opportunities for professional development
- LGPS pension scheme (subject to eligibility)
- O2 discounts, Specsavers corporate eye test vouchers
- Eligible for NUS Card and CSSC membership
- Well-being programs (retreats, yoga, wellness apps)
- Cycle-to-work Scheme
Further information about the job
Further information
Pre-employment checks
Avanti Schools Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and requires all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All successful candidates are required to have an Enhanced DBS check unless internally appointed and still within the cycle of DBS re-checks.
Any appointment subsequently made will be subject to the receipt of satisfactory references and other pre-employment checks.
Diversity and Inclusion
We want to make sure we are attracting the widest possible range of people and ensure that they are accepted, understood and treated equally when they work here. This means we will work hard to understand that each employee is unique and ensuring that individuals or groups are not treated differently or less favourably on the basis of specific characteristics.
Such characteristics include (but are not limited to) age, disability, gender including transgender, race, religion, sexual orientation, marital status, and how the school supports pregnant women and new parents.
Safeguarding StatementAvanti Schools Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We particularly welcome applications from under represented groups including ethnicity, gender, transgender, age, disability, sexual orientation or religion.
Commitment to safeguarding
Avanti Schools Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and requires all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All successful candidates are required to have an Enhanced DBS check unless internally appointed and still within the cycle of DBS re-checks.
Any appointment subsequently made will be subject to the receipt of satisfactory references and other pre-employment checks.
Applying for the job
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
View advert on school website (opens in new tab)Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Avanti Fields School
- Organisation type
- Free School, Hindu, ages 3 to 16
- Education phase
- All through school
- Size
- 1236 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- Website
- Avanti Fields School website
- Email address
- talent@avanti.org.uk
Avanti Fields School is a new all-through school which welcomed the first intake of Year 7 students in September 2018. The school is rapidly expanding, and will grow year by year to a full cohort of 1,320. This is an exciting time to join the school as it moves into its new state of the arts building and continues its journey to outstanding.
Avanti Fields School; we are an all-through; 3–16 Hindu-faith school – part of the multi-academy, Avanti Schools Trust.
Avanti Schools are extremely popular with Hindu and non-Hindu parents alike who want an outstanding, disciplined and inclusive environment for learning for their children.
Our established schools in London and Leicester are all at least rated good with outstanding features and have the highest expectations are our pupils.
Avanti’s faith ethos means high academic and moral standards and an environment that values and nurtures the best within all faiths.
Avanti Fields is a Hindu-designated faith school, part of the growing family of Avanti schools. However, staff and students at Avanti Fields School do not originate from any specific faith background. Applications are welcome from practitioners of any faith and from those of none; they will, however, be expected to be in full sympathy with the unique ethos and vision of the School.
Arranging a visit to Avanti Fields School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email talent@avanti.org.uk.
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