Food and Beverage Assistant

Avery Healthcare Group Ltd.; Shalford; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider is looking for a Food and Beverage Assistant at their Guildford House Care Home in the UK. You'll support residents with meal service, set dining tables to standards, and ensure a clean and tidy environment. The ideal candidate will demonstrate high personal hygiene standards and have experience in a restaurant or hotel setting. Join a supportive team where your compassion will make a difference in residents' lives.

Qualifications

• Must demonstrate high standards of personal hygiene.
• Experience in a similar setting, restaurant, or hotel is desirable.
• Compassion and commitment to culinary services for residents.

Responsibilities

• Support the dining service and assist residents with their meals.
• Ensure dining tables are set according to procedures.
• Maintain cleanliness and presentation of the front of house.

Skills

Demonstrate high standards of personal hygiene

Experience in a similar setting (desirable)

Compassion for culinary service delivery

Education

Basic Food Hygiene Certificate (beneficial)

Job description

This role is a Food and Beverage Assistant position at Avery Healthcare's Guildford House Care Home. The successful candidate will be responsible for supporting the dining service and assisting residents with their meals, ensuring a high standard of service and presentation.

Main duties of the job

As a Food and Beverage Assistant, your focus will be to support the dining service and assist residents with their meals. This will involve supporting residents with choosing their meal options, ensuring dining tables are set to the standard operating procedures, keeping the front of house clean, tidy, and well-presented, and replenishing dirty crockery and fresh homemade cakes/biscuits, finger food, and fresh fruit options throughout the day. You will also need to be aware of residents' dietary requirements.

About us

Avery Healthcare is one of the UK's largest providers of luxury elderly care homes, with a vision of "creating meaningful lives together." They are passionate about creating meaningful experiences for their residents and employees, offering exceptional care and a supportive, inspiring environment where team members feel valued and empowered.

Job description

Package Description:

Shift Details: 0630 to 1900 or 0630 to 1500

At Avery Healthcare, we are all about supporting the people who care for our residents. We know how hard our teams work, and we're here to celebrate and support you every step of the way. When you join us, you'll be making a positive impact on residents' lives every day. Your compassion and dedication truly make a difference. We're committed to helping you grow in a caring, supportive environment, with opportunities to learn and develop throughout your career. And as part of our close-knit team, you'll experience a culture that values respect, compassion, and a shared commitment to exceptional care. We're now looking for a warm, enthusiastic, and dedicated individual to join our award-winning team as a Food and Beverage Team Member at Guildford House Care Home in Guildford. If this sounds like the place for you, we'd love to hear from you!

About the role

Your focus as a Food and Beverage Team Member is to support the dining service and assist residents with their meals. Other responsibilities will include supporting the residents with choosing their meal options when dining; ensuring that the standard operating procedures set dining tables; keeping the front of the house clean, tidy and well-presented and ensuring dirty crockery is removed and replenished throughout the day; ensuring fresh homemade cakes/biscuits are accessible in the bistro areas and replenished throughout the day, as well as finger food and fresh fruit options; and being aware of residents' dietary requirements.

About you

To succeed in your application, you will live our values of caring, supportive, honest, respectful and accountable in all you do. Our ideal candidate must have: demonstrate high standards of personal hygiene; have experience working in a similar setting, restaurant, or hotel (desirable); a basic Food Hygiene Certificate would be beneficial; and demonstrate compassion and commitment to the delivery of culinary services to residents.

About Avery

At Avery, we're not just one of the UK's largest providers of luxury elderly care homes; we're a place where people love to work. We believe that the later years of life should be as enriching as any other, and we're passionate about creating meaningful experiences for our residents and our team alike. With our vision of "creating meaningful lives together," we proudly offer exceptional care across our growing network of over 100 homes, building a supportive and inspiring environment where employees feel valued and empowered every day. Join us and see why Avery is the preferred choice for residents and team members alike.

Please note 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.

This advert may be withdrawn prior to the advertised deadline, depending on the volume of applications received and business needs.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• To succeed in this role, you will need to demonstrate high standards of personal hygiene, and experience working in a similar setting, restaurant, or hotel would be desirable. A basic Food Hygiene Certificate would also be beneficial. Additionally, you must show compassion and commitment to the delivery of culinary services to 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 (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.