This is a great opportunity to take the first steps in your hospitality career and work as part of a Kitchen Team with Surya Hotels, working with the hotels Senior management team to maximise guest experience.  In a new era in hospitality, make your mark at The Dukes Head and really drive it forwards, embracing our ‘Ownership with Personality’ values.

Its striking powder-blue façade, a study in Georgian elegance, is as much a part of King’s Lynn’s Tuesday Market Place as the stalls that have traded here for generations. It’s the quintessential market town hotel – a handsome hostelry with history at every turn, restored and restyled for the discerning twenty-first century traveller.

Political icons; princesses; the who’s who of King’s Lynn’s past – The Dukes Head has played host to them all. Today, period charm meets contemporary chic, 80 spacious rooms that envelope you in comfort, and the very best local produce is served – in our acclaimed restaurant, lounge and buzzing bar.

To be a successful Kitchen Porter, an important part of our kitchen team, you will need;

• A positive, can do attitude to ensure all kitchen equipment, tools and guest crockery and cutlery are cleaned and ready when needed
• To take pride in your work- confident in being a crucial part in the wheel of kitchen operations
• Eager to learn about different food, techniques and service styles- able to take on new tasks to support the chefs and colleagues
• A team player- there to support and ensure the wheels keep turning in the kitchen, really pulling through in those peak periods

Roles and responsibilities include but aren’t limited to:

• Ensure all standard checklists are used as prescribed.
• Ensure all cleaning in the designated areas is carried out to the Company Standards.
• Support with deliveries of produce, food stuffs and equipment.
• To be able to deal with any reasonable requests from Management in a professional manner.
• To ensure all documentation, i.e. checks are completed as necessary and carried out as per the Hotel and Company Standards.
• Must attend all H&S, Food Hygiene and Fire Training as directed by designated Line Manager.

We offer you:

• Access to Employee Assistance Programme – helping our hospitality team through any difficult times 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
• WageStream – we offer the ability to access your wages as you earn them, or save as you earn too!
• Retail and supermarket discounts
• Discounted meals & stays across all of the groups hotels around the UK- up to 50% off!
• A development programme to continue your rise to becoming a “Hospitality Superstar”- We love to promote from within our teams - including apprenticeships, accredited and professional training.
• Increasing annual leave
• Savings on bus travel
• Bike to work scheme
• Flexible working hours and shift times
• Inclusion in Tronc scheme

Surya Hotels is one of the UK’s leading niche hotel groups, with a rapidly expanding portfolio of outstanding properties, situated in some of the UK’s most idyllic settings, from historic Suffolk and Norfolk towns, Essex City or coastal resorts to picturesque Surrey villages.

Our hospitality family has a ‘best in class’ ethos to exceed our guest expectations; creating experiences that embrace our heritage locations, our people and the communities we work within.

We aim to consistently deliver best in class experiences with personality and warmth. From our warm welcome, to our ‘See-you-again-soon’ Goodbye.

Stay. Explore. Discover.

This is a great opportunity to take the first steps in your hospitality career and work as part of a Kitchen Team with Surya Hotels, working with the hotels Senior management team to maximise guest experience.  In a new era in hospitality, make your mark at The Dukes Head and really drive it forwards, embracing our ‘Ownership with Personality’ values.

Its striking powder-blue façade, a study in Georgian elegance, is as much a part of King’s Lynn’s Tuesday Market Place as the stalls that have traded here for generations. It’s the quintessential market town hotel – a handsome hostelry with history at every turn, restored and restyled for the discerning twenty-first century traveller.

Political icons; princesses; the who’s who of King’s Lynn’s past – The Dukes Head has played host to them all. Today, period charm meets contemporary chic, 80 spacious rooms that envelope you in comfort, and the very best local produce is served – in our acclaimed restaurant, lounge and buzzing bar.

To be a successful Kitchen Porter, an important part of our kitchen team, you will need;

• A positive, can do attitude to ensure all kitchen equipment, tools and guest crockery and cutlery are cleaned and ready when needed
• To take pride in your work- confident in being a crucial part in the wheel of kitchen operations
• Eager to learn about different food, techniques and service styles- able to take on new tasks to support the chefs and colleagues
• A team player- there to support and ensure the wheels keep turning in the kitchen, really pulling through in those peak periods

Roles and responsibilities include but aren’t limited to:

• Ensure all standard checklists are used as prescribed.
• Ensure all cleaning in the designated areas is carried out to the Company Standards.
• Support with deliveries of produce, food stuffs and equipment.
• To be able to deal with any reasonable requests from Management in a professional manner.
• To ensure all documentation, i.e. checks are completed as necessary and carried out as per the Hotel and Company Standards.
• Must attend all H&S, Food Hygiene and Fire Training as directed by designated Line Manager.

We offer you:

• Access to Employee Assistance Programme – helping our hospitality team through any difficult times 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
• WageStream – we offer the ability to access your wages as you earn them, or save as you earn too!
• Retail and supermarket discounts
• Discounted meals & stays across all of the groups hotels around the UK- up to 50% off!
• A development programme to continue your rise to becoming a “Hospitality Superstar”- We love to promote from within our teams - including apprenticeships, accredited and professional training.
• Increasing annual leave
• Savings on bus travel
• Bike to work scheme
• Flexible working hours and shift times
• Inclusion in Tronc scheme

Surya Hotels is one of the UK’s leading niche hotel groups, with a rapidly expanding portfolio of outstanding properties, situated in some of the UK’s most idyllic settings, from historic Suffolk and Norfolk towns, Essex City or coastal resorts to picturesque Surrey villages.

Our hospitality family has a ‘best in class’ ethos to exceed our guest expectations; creating experiences that embrace our heritage locations, our people and the communities we work within.

We aim to consistently deliver best in class experiences with personality and warmth. From our warm welcome, to our ‘See-you-again-soon’ Goodbye.

Stay. Explore. Discover.