Bank Catering Assistant

Sanctuary Care; London Borough of Harrow; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 30,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading care home provider seeks a passionate Catering Assistant to join their team in London. You will play a key role in food preparation and service, ensuring high standards and contributing to a happy environment for residents. This position offers training, development opportunities, and various benefits to support your career growth.

Benefits

20 days annual leave

Life assurance

CQC performance bonus

Excellent training and development opportunities

Refer a friend scheme

Contributory pension

24/7 support service

Exclusive discounts and wellbeing resources

Criminal Records Checks funded

Qualifications

• Previous catering experience is desirable.
• Understanding of safe food storage/cleaning practices is essential.
• Food hygiene certificate is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Basic food preparation and presenting meals to a high standard.
• Serving meals to residents in compliance with food hygiene legislation.
• Teamwork to enrich residents’ lives.

Skills

Team work

Catering experience

Food hygiene certificate

Safe food storage

Communication

Caring

Job description

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Haven Residential Care Home, 36-38 Wellington Road, Hatch End, Pinner, Middlesex, HA5 4NL

£12.70 per hour

Hours as and when required

Why work for us?

We spend so much time at work don’t we, so our ethos at Sanctuary Care is to enrich the lives of both our residents and staff. Let’s have some fun while we’re at work, support each other and work hard as a team. There’s loads of training and promotion opportunities available for those who want to pursue it and every day job satisfaction at Haven for all regardless of role.

Sanctuary Care has over 100 care homes and you can ‘feel’ the difference a team makes the moment you step through one of our doors. The team at Havenis special and we’re looking for special people to join us. Become a part of it andapply for this role.

Are you our next Catering Assistant? Here’s more about the role:

• First and foremost – we work together as a team to enrich our residents’ lives – let’s support our colleagues too and have fun in the process
• Your main duties will include basic food preparation, presenting meals to a high standard and serving meals to our residents, all performed to relevant food hygiene legislation
• Excellent food and great service play a key part in our residents’ day.

What skills do I need?

• Team work! A happy team, makes for happy residents and a happy home
• Previous catering experience is desirable as is a food hygiene certificate
• An understanding of safe food storage/cleaning practices is essential
• Support and training are provided
• You need to be caring, enthusiastic and have energy to share
• Being able to communicate well is essential along with a flexible approach
• You will also be kind and have a real genuine like for older people and their needs, ensuring we treat everyone with the respect and dignity they deserve.

Benefits and rewards

We know you work so hard and being the best Catering Assistant you can be needs to be rewarded. We are very proud to offer the following:

• 20 days annual leave equivalent based on hours worked
• Life assurance
• CQC performance bonus
• Excellent training and development opportunities
• Refer a friend scheme with payment of up to £500 available
• Contributory pension from Sanctuary Care
• Access to a free 24/7 support service providing support including legal, financial, emotional and medical advice
• Exclusive discounts, wellbeing resources, recognition and much more via “Sanctuary e-hub”
• Criminal Records Checks are funded by Sanctuary Care.

We hope you feel you could be our next team member.

Job Reference: 225171

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Inclusion is one of our core values. Our goal is to be a diverse, inclusive organisation where our people thrive and meet our customers’ needs with fairness and empathy. We know having a range of ideas and opinions makes a difference. We encourage and welcome applications from people from diverse backgrounds to support this mission. We will make adjustments throughout your application process, in line with Sanctuary’s commitment to our Disability Confident employer status.