Kitchen Assistant

NHS; Beaconsfield; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 22,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading care provider in Beaconsfield seeks a warm and dedicated Kitchen Assistant. This role focuses on food preparation and maintaining hygiene, ensuring high-quality service for residents. Ideal candidates will hold a Basic Food Hygiene Certificate and demonstrate teamwork and care.

Qualifications

• Must hold a Basic Food Hygiene Certificate.
• Knowledge of Health and Safety, Fire Safety, and COSHH assessments required.

Responsibilities

• Support food preparation and maintain hygiene standards.
• Contribute to team working and advise on supply quality.
• Act respectfully towards residents.

Skills

Caring

Teamwork

Initiative

Education

Basic Food Hygiene Certificate

Job description

This role as a Kitchen Assistant at Avery Healthcare in Beaconsfield involves supporting the catering function in food preparation and maintaining a clean environment for the safe production of beverages and meals. The successful candidate will have a caring and understanding attitude towards the residents, demonstrating initiative and a positive, flexible aptitude for teamwork.

Main duties of the job

As a Kitchen Assistant, your focus will be 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 is delivered to residents. Other responsibilities will include understanding the principles of safe food handling, contributing to team working, advising on the supply and quality of items, and acting with respect towards the residents.

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 enriching experiences for their residents and team members, offering exceptional care across over 100 homes and building a supportive, inspiring environment where employees feel valued and empowered.

Job responsibilities

Package Description:

Job description and responsibilities

Shift Details: 07:00-15:00, 11:00-19:00, alternative weekends

At Avery Healthcare, we are all about supporting the people who care for our residents. We recognize how hard our teams work, and we celebrate and support you every step of the way. When you join us, you'll make 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. As part of our close-knit team, you'll experience a culture that values respect, compassion, and a shared commitment to exceptional care.

We are now looking for a warm, enthusiastic, and dedicated individual to join our award-winning team as a Kitchen Assistant. If this sounds like the place for you, we'd love to hear from you!

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 is delivered to residents.

Other responsibilities will include:

• Understanding the principles of safe food handling, to ensure all food preparations undertaken in the kitchen meet the highest standards of hygiene.
• Contributing fully to team working, responding positively to colleagues, and acting on all reasonable work instructions promptly.
• Advising on the supply and quality of items used to carry out tasks, ensuring the timely and appropriate ordering of replacement goods.
• Acting respectfully towards residents and their visitors, respecting the dignity and individuality of each resident.

About you

To be successful, you will live our values of caring, supportive, honest, respectful, and accountable in all that you do.

Our ideal candidate must:

• Hold a Basic Food Hygiene Certificate and demonstrate high standards of personal hygiene.
• Have 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 display a positive and flexible attitude to team working.
• Exhibit a caring and understanding attitude towards the 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 be successful, you will need to hold a Basic Food Hygiene Certificate, demonstrate high standards of personal hygiene, and have knowledge of Health and Safety, particularly Moving and Handling techniques, Fire Safety, and COSHH assessments. You should also be an efficient worker, capable of a high level of sustained physical effort and able to respond to a demanding workload, with a caring and understanding attitude towards the 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.