Catering Assistant

Mariposa Care Group Ltd; East Grinstead; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 29,000; Full time

Job summary

Mariposa Care Group Ltd is seeking a Catering Assistant for their care home kitchen. The role involves supporting food preparation, maintaining hygiene standards, and ensuring dietary needs are met. Ideal candidates should have relevant qualifications and a passion for providing quality care.

Benefits

Recognition of service payments (£500 in first year)

Unlimited £1,000 'Refer a Friend' payments

Training and qualifications funded

Annual pay reviews

Private health care options

Opportunities for internal promotion

Qualifications

• Experience in a care home kitchen preferred but not mandatory.
• Commitment to undertake further training and development.

Responsibilities

• Support the Chef with food preparation and storage.
• Ensure dietary requirements are met.
• Maintain cleanliness and hygiene standards.

Skills

Food hygiene

Food preparation

Cleanliness and hygiene

Education

Level 2 catering qualification

Job description

Hourly rate: £12.21 per hour
Location: Riverwell Beck, Blackwell
Shift:3 shifts in week 1, 2 shifts in week 2 - 8am-7pm.
Company: Mariposa Care Group
Postcode: CA2 4SE
Qualifications Required: Ideally, you will have food hygiene certificate and a Level 2 catering qualification or equivalent (or a commitment to undertake further training and development, relevant to the role)

Plus enjoy lots of great benefits when you join the Mariposa family.

Mariposa Care has an opportunity available for a Catering Assistant to join the kitchen team in our friendly care home, Riverwell Beck. We’re on the lookout for someone to support the Chef with food preparation and storage, ensuring different dietary requirements are met where necessary, assist in maintaining accurate records and maintaining the highest standards of cleanliness and hygiene.

Ideally, you will have worked in a care home kitchen beforebut if you haven’t, you’ll still have experience of preparing and serving creative, high quality and nutritious meals in a commercial environment.

Our benefits include:

• Recognition of service payments, receiving a total of £500 in your first year
• UNLIMITED £1,000 ‘Refer a Friend’ payments (that’s potentially £1,000 every time you link us up with another great new person to join the team!)
• Training and qualifications funded by us
• Annual pay reviews recognising your contribution to making our homes a great place to live and work
• Private health care options helping reduce the cost of essential bills, such as dental and optical treatment
• An organisation with an impressive internal promotion record and creating great opportunities for people

Our recruitment process

If you’re offered a role with us, it will be conditional on some standard checks, like references and a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. We also need you to have good English and numeracy skills, plus a passion for caring and helping our residents to thrive.

We want every candidate to feel supported and able to perform at their best during the recruitment process. If you need any assistance or would like to request a reasonable adjustment at any stage, just drop us an email at [e-mail] - we’ll be happy to help.

At Mariposa Care, we’re committed to building a fair and inclusive workplace. We welcome applications from everyone, no matter your age, gender, gender identity or expression, religion, belief, disability, ethnicity, or sexual orientation.

Job titles can vary – this role is also known as cook’s assistant, kitchen helper, general kitchen assistant, catering assistant, food preparation assistant, domiciliary assistant, social care.