Kitchen Assistant

Nexxus Care; Burntwood Green; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 22,000; Full time

Job summary

A Staffordshire-based care provider is seeking a Kitchen Assistant to support the nutritional needs of residents. The role includes food preparation, ensuring safe food handling, and working closely with the kitchen team. Candidates should have a passion for food and good communication skills. Competitive pay and benefits are offered.

Benefits

Refer a friend scheme

Discounts on vehicle warranties and memberships

Access to free counselling service

Paid training and funded diploma

Funded DBS

Qualifications

• Completion of satisfactory DBS checks is essential.
• Experience of working within a residential home is beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Ensure safe food handling is adhered to.
• Prepare meals on time and offer at least three main lunch options daily.
• Support the cook and manage kitchen assistants as required.

Skills

Good communicator

Good record‑keeping skills

Focused

Genuine passion for food

Job description

Job Overview

Nexxus Care are recruiting a kitchen assistant for one of our residential homes in Burtonwood. This post consists of 4 shifts per week, mornings and evenings shifts (on occasion would be required to cover the cook, full training would be provided). This is a unique and rewarding role where you will be supporting the nutritional needs of our care home residents. As well as a competitive pay structure, Nexxus Care offer a wide range of benefits such as:

Benefits

• Refer a friend scheme
• Mend Your motors discount warranty & AA membership discount - In case of those unexpected car troubles
• Access to free counselling service - We want to ensure that you're looked after in every way possible
• Paid training and funded diploma - T&C's apply
• Funded DBS - T&C's apply

Key Responsibilities

• Ensure safe food handling is adhered to, i.e. frozen foods are defrosted before using
• Ensure all meals are ready at the appropriate time
• Offer and prepare, if necessary, at least three main options for lunch each day ensuring that fresh vegetables are used
• Delegate appropriate work to the kitchen assistant as required and monitor that this has been carried out to a satisfactory level
• Ensure cleaning completed as per rota
• Prepare fresh cakes for afternoon tea/special occasions
• Be a good all‑rounder within the kitchen team, stepping up and supporting the cook when required.
• Adhere to COSH policies, procedures and documentation requirements
• Complete relevant in‑house training in accordance with the job description

Qualifications

• Completion of satisfactory DBS checks
• Experience of working within a residential home is beneficial
• Good communicator
• Good record‑keeping skills – documenting information in accordance with guidelines
• Focused
• Genuine passion for food and for our residents’ dietary requirements

About Nexxus Care

Nexxus Care is a Staffordshire County Council owned company, building our services around people, not processes or tasks. We are ambitious, courageous and empowering. We support and enable our staff to make things better and are open to doing things differently, using new technologies. We are bold and willing to take difficult decisions within a commercial operating context.

Commitment to the Planet

We will make a contribution to tackling climate change.