Food And Beverage Team Member

NHS; Elstree; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Part time

Job summary

An established industry player in elderly care is seeking a dedicated Food and Beverage Team Member to enhance the dining experience for residents. In this role, you will provide essential support during meal times, ensuring that residents receive exceptional service in a clean and welcoming environment. Your compassion and interpersonal skills will be key in helping residents choose their meals and catering to their dietary needs. Join a team that values caring and supportive relationships, where your contributions will make a meaningful difference in the lives of others. This part-time role offers a competitive hourly rate and a chance to be part of a rewarding environment.

Qualifications

• Experience in a similar setting like a restaurant or hotel is desirable.
• High standards of personal hygiene are essential.

Responsibilities

• Support the dining service and assist residents with their meals.
• Ensure cleanliness and presentation of dining areas.

Skills

Interpersonal Skills

Compassion

Basic Food Hygiene

Education

Basic Food Hygiene Certificate

Job description

This is a role as a Food and Beverage Team Member at Avery Healthcare, a leading provider of luxury elderly care homes in the UK. You will be responsible for supporting the dining service and assisting residents with their meals, ensuring a high standard of service and cleanliness. The position offers part-time hours of 10am to 2pm, three days a week, with a competitive hourly rate of £12.25.

Main duties of the job

As a Food and Beverage Team Member, 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 the dining tables are set to the standard operating procedures, keeping the front of the house clean, tidy, and well-presented, and replenishing fresh cakes, biscuits, finger food, and fruit throughout the day. You will also need to be aware of residents' dietary requirements. The ideal candidate will have experience working in a similar setting, such as a restaurant or hotel, and possess a basic food hygiene certificate. Strong interpersonal skills, compassion, and a commitment to delivering exceptional culinary services to residents are essential.

About us

Avery Healthcare is one of the UK's largest providers of luxury elderly care homes. They are committed to creating meaningful lives together for their residents and employees, offering a supportive and inspiring environment where everyone feels valued and empowered. With over 100 homes across the country, Avery is dedicated to delivering exceptional care and creating meaningful experiences for all.

Job responsibilities

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.
• Ensure fresh homemade cakes/biscuits are accessible in the bistro areas and replenished throughout the day, as well as finger food and fresh fruit options.
• 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
• Experience working in a similar setting, such as a restaurant or hotel, would be desirable
• A basic Food Hygiene Certificate would be beneficial.
• Demonstrate 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.