Overview
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At Avery Healthcare, we are dedicated to supporting the people who care for our residents. We celebrate and support our teams, offering opportunities to learn and develop throughout your career in a caring, respectful environment.
We’re looking for a warm, enthusiastic, and dedicated individual to join our award-winning team as a Kitchen Assistant.
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 for residents.
Responsibilities
* Understand the principles of safe food handling to ensure food preparations meet the highest standards of hygiene.
* Contribute fully to team working, respond positively to colleagues, and action 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 accordingly 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.
Really Good Fit / Ideal Candidate
* Hold 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.
* Be an efficient worker, capable of a high level of sustained physical effort and able to respond to a demanding workload.
* Demonstrate initiative and a positive, flexible attitude to teamwork.
* Exhibit a caring and understanding attitude towards residents.
About Avery
At Avery, we’re one of the UK’s largest providers of luxury elderly care homes. We believe that later years of life should be as enriching as any other, and we’re passionate about creating meaningful experiences for our residents and team. With a vision of "creating meaningful lives together," we offer exceptional care across a growing network of over 100 homes, building a supportive and inspiring environment where employees feel valued and empowered every day.
Role Requirements
* A DBS Disclosure check, the cost of which will be met by Avery Healthcare.
* Proof of eligibility to work in the UK.
This advert may be withdrawn prior to the advertised deadline depending on the volume of applications received and business needs.
Other Information
* Attached documents: Kitchen Assistant reviewed JD.docx.
Details
* Seniority level: Entry level
* Employment type: Full-time
* Job function: Management and Manufacturing
* Industries: Hospitals and Health Care
Location notes and nearby postings may appear in the original listing but are not part of this refined description.
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