Kitchen Assistant

NHS; Chipstead; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 24,000; Full time

Job summary

A caring healthcare provider in Chipstead is seeking a Kitchen Assistant to support food preparation and maintain hygiene standards. The ideal candidate will hold a Basic Food Hygiene Certificate, demonstrate efficient teamwork, and have a caring attitude towards residents. This role offers a chance to make a daily positive impact in the lives of residents and work in a supportive environment.

Benefits

Opportunity for career development

Supportive team environment

Qualifications

• Demonstrate high standards of personal hygiene.
• Knowledge of Health and Safety, particularly Moving and Handling techniques.
• Efficient worker capable of sustained physical effort.

Responsibilities

• Support food preparation and maintain hygiene standards.
• Contribute to teamwork and respond positively to instructions.
• Advise on supply quality and order replacement goods.

Skills

Understanding safe food handling

Teamwork and collaboration

Caring attitude towards residents

Education

Basic Food Hygiene Certificate

Tools

Health and Safety knowledge

Job description

This role as a Kitchen Assistant at Avery Healthcare in Chipstead offers a great opportunity to join an award-winning team and make a positive impact on the lives of the residents. The successful candidate will 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.

Overview

Role: Kitchen Assistant at Avery Healthcare. Location: Chipstead. You will support the catering function in food preparation and maintain a clean environment for the safe production of beverages and meals, ensuring a high quality and comprehensive service is delivered to residents.

Main duties

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, contributing to team working, advising on the supply and quality of items, and acting accordingly towards residents and their visitors.

• Understanding the principles of safe food handling, to ensure all food preparations undertaken in the kitchen are to the highest standards of hygiene.
• Contributing fully to teamwork, responding positively to colleagues, and actioning 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 accordingly towards residents and their visitors, respecting the dignity and individuality of each resident.

About us

Avery Healthcare is one of the UK's largest providers of luxury elderly care homes. They are passionate about creating meaningful experiences for their residents and employees, offering exceptional care across their growing network of over 100 homes. Avery is a place where people love to work, building a supportive and inspiring environment where employees feel valued and empowered every day.

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.

Responsibilities

Package Description: 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 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 are to the highest standards of hygiene.
• Contributing fully to teamwork, responding positively to colleagues, and actioning 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 accordingly towards residents and their visitors, respecting the dignity and individuality of each resident.

About you

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

Our ideal candidate must:

• Hold 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 aptitude to team working.
• Exhibit a caring and understanding attitude towards the residents.

Disclosure and other requirements

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.

Qualification and checks

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.