Overview
This role as a Bank Kitchen Assistant at a Barchester care home involves providing cover for planned or unplanned absences to help produce meals and create a fulfilling dining experience for the residents. The successful candidate will play a crucial role in maintaining the highest standards in the kitchen and during the food preparation process.
Job responsibilities
As a Bank Kitchen Assistant, you\'ll help to provide the first-class food and hospitality that enable the care home to give residents exceptional all-round care and support. A healthy, nutritious diet is vital to ensuring the residents\' wellbeing and helping them enjoy daily life, which is why this role is so important. You\'ll be responsible for producing meals and creating a fulfilling dining experience for every resident. You\'ll be an asset to your colleagues, and your impact will reach beyond the kitchen too, as you\'ll have opportunities to get to know the residents and enhance their hospitality experience.
About the role
As a Bank Kitchen Assistant at a Barchester care home, you\'ll help to provide the first-class food and hospitality that enable us to give our residents exceptional all-round care and support. A healthy, nutritious diet is vital to ensuring our residents\' wellbeing and helping them enjoy daily life with us, which is why the role of Bank Kitchen Assistant is so important. Providing cover for any planned or unplanned absences, you\'ll help to produce meals and create a fulfilling dining experience for every resident. You\'ll be an asset to your colleagues and your impact will reach beyond the kitchen too. There\'ll be plenty of opportunities for you to get to know our residents and enhance their hospitality experience.
About you
When you join us as a Bank Kitchen Assistant, you\'ll play a crucial role in the success of your care home. That\'s why we\'re looking for someone who\'s committed to maintaining the highest standards in the kitchen and during the food preparation process. You should be reliable, considerate and caring in your approach, and flexible when it comes to your work patterns. Formal qualifications aren\'t necessary, although any similar experience gained in a commercial or care setting would be useful.
Rewards package
As well as competitive pay, you can look forward to a role that offers true flexibility and plenty of free learning and development opportunities. As one of the UK\'s leading healthcare providers, we take catering seriously and even run a fiercely-contested annual Barchester Hospitality Awards. If you do well in this role it could lead to a permanent one.
As this is a Bank position to provide cover as and when we need it, such as for annual leave or sick leave, the hours and days you work will vary.
Job requirements
If you\'d like to use your attention to detail and people skills in an organisation that provides the quality care you\'d expect for your loved ones, this is a rewarding place to be.
Qualifications
Essential: Formal qualifications are not necessary, although any similar experience gained in a commercial or care setting would be useful. The ideal candidate should be reliable, considerate, caring, and flexible when it comes to work patterns.
Disclosures
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Employer details
Barchester Healthcare
Woking, GU23 7DJ
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