Overview
Avery Healthcare is one of the UK's largest providers of luxury elderly care homes, committed to creating meaningful experiences for residents and team members alike. As a Kitchen Assistant, you will support the catering function, ensuring a high-quality and comprehensive service is delivered to residents.
Responsibilities
Job responsibilities and duties:
* Your focus as Kitchen Assistant is to support the catering function in food preparation and maintaining a clean environment for the safe production of beverages and meals, ensuring a high quality and comprehensive service is delivered to residents.
* Understand the principles of safe food handling to ensure all food preparations undertaken in the kitchen meet high standards of hygiene.
* Contribute fully to team working, respond positively to colleagues, and action all reasonable work instructions promptly.
* Advise on the supply and quality of items used to carry out tasks, ensuring timely and appropriate ordering of replacement goods.
* Act towards residents and their visitors with respect for the dignity and individuality of each resident.
About Avery
Avery is a leading provider of luxury elderly care homes in the UK, with over 100 homes across the country. We are passionate about creating meaningful experiences for residents and employees, offering a supportive and inspiring environment where everyone feels valued and empowered.
About the role
Your focus as Kitchen Assistant is to support the catering function in food preparation and maintaining a clean environment for the safe production of beverages and meals, ensuring a high quality and comprehensive service is delivered to residents.
Shift Details - Day Shifts
We are looking for a warm, enthusiastic, and dedicated individual to join our award-winning team as a Kitchen Assistant. You will be making a positive impact on residents' lives every day; your compassion and dedication truly make a difference. We are committed to helping you grow in a caring, supportive environment, with opportunities to learn and develop throughout your career. Join a close-knit team that values respect, compassion, and a shared commitment to exceptional care.
About you / Qualifications
To be successful in your application, you will live our values of caring, supportive, honest, respectful, and accountable in all that you do. Our ideal candidate must:
* Hold a Basic Food Hygiene Certificate and demonstrate high standards of personal hygiene.
* Have knowledge of Health and Safety, particularly Moving and Handling techniques, Fire Safety and COSHH assessments.
* Be an efficient worker, capable of a high level of sustained physical effort and able to respond to a demanding workload.
* Demonstrate initiative and display a positive and flexible aptitude to teamwork.
* Exhibit a caring and understanding attitude towards the residents.
Additional requirements
Role contingencies - This role will require:
* A DBS Disclosure check, the cost of which will be met by Avery Healthcare.
* Proof of eligibility to work in the UK.
Please note this advert may be withdrawn prior to the advertised deadline depending on the volume of applications and business needs.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Hold a Basic Food Hygiene Certificate and demonstrate high standards of personal hygiene.
* Knowledge of Health and Safety, particularly Moving and Handling techniques, Fire Safety and COSHH assessments.
* Efficient worker capable of sustained physical effort and able to respond to a demanding workload.
* Caring and understanding attitude towards the residents.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
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.
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