Job summary
The role of a Kitchen Assistant at Avery Healthcare involves supporting 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. The candidate should possess a caring and understanding attitude towards the residents, along with a commitment to upholding the company's values of caring, supportive, honest, respectful, and accountable.
Overview
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.
Responsibilities
* Understand the principles of safe food handling, to ensure all food preparations undertaken in the kitchen are to the highest 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 the timely and appropriate ordering of replacement goods.
* Act towards residents and their visitors, respecting the dignity and individuality of each resident.
About You
To be successful in your application, you will live our values of caring, supportive, honest, respectful, and accountable in all that you do.
* Hold 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 team working.
* Exhibit a caring and understanding attitude towards the residents.
About Avery
At Avery, we are one of the UK’s largest providers of luxury elderly care homes. We are passionate about creating meaningful experiences for our residents and our team, with a vision of "creating meaningful lives together." We offer exceptional care across our network of over 100 homes in a supportive and empowering environment.
Details
Date posted: 09 September 2025
Pay scheme: Other
Salary: £12.25 an hour
Contract: Bank
Working pattern: Flexible working
Reference number: 1379592077
Job locations: Avery Healthcare, Marlow, SL7 1HX
Additional requirements
* 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 role may be withdrawn prior to the advertised deadline depending on the volume of applications received and business needs.
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