Kitchen Assistant

Healthcare Ireland Group; Derry/Londonderry; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 24,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a growing healthcare group as a Kitchen Assistant at Longfield Care Home, where you’ll play a crucial role in ensuring residents receive high-quality meals and dining experiences. Your responsibilities will include food preparation, maintaining hygiene standards, and contributing to a safe working environment.

Benefits

Paid annual leave

4 weekly pay

Continuous professional development and training

Pension plan (if applicable)

Free parking

Qualifications

• Previous catering, kitchen or food preparation experience required.
• Good knowledge of food safety and hygiene practices.

Responsibilities

• Ensure catering stock and equipment are stored correctly.
• Assist with basic food preparation.
• Deliver meals and maintain a clean kitchen environment.

Skills

Food Safety

Hygiene Practices

Job description

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Located on the outskirts of the village of Eglinton and just ten miles from the city of Derry, Longfield Care Home offers a welcoming environment with specialised care for residents across two units. We support 35 General Nursing residents in the Foyle and Faughan Units, alongside 11 Residential Dementia residents in the Moore Suite.

Our commitment to excellence was recently recognised at the 2024 Staff Nursing Awards, where our Home Manager received a Highly Commended for Home Manager of the Year, and our Team Leader proudly won Care Assistant of the Year.

The Role

The Kitchen Assistants in our Homes play a key role in ensuring the smooth and safe operation of our kitchens, ensuring that residents receive high quality meals and dining experiences. The role is essential to the wellbeing of our residents through the provision of high-quality, person-centred dining experiences.

Working as part of the Kitchen team, reporting to the Chef the role is about a lot more than preparing and serving meals – the Kitchen Assistant will support with ensuring the dietary needs of our residents are met in addition to contributing to a safe and positive working environment.

About The Role

Main Responsibilities

Ensures that all catering stock and equipment is correctly stored and accounted for in accordance with the company’s Assured Safe Catering standards.

Delivers meals and other catering supplies to various areas within the unit in a timely and efficient manner.

Under direction, assists with the basic preparation of food items.

Ensures all cleaning within the kitchen, catering and servery areas (as appropriate) is completed and complies with the company’s Assured Safe Catering standards.

Delivers and maintains a clean and tidy environment throughout the home, in line with operational standards and ensures that work processes comply with statutory regulations.

Undertake any other duties that may be reasonably required as designated by the Chef or Cook.

The Benefits:

Paid annual leave

The chance to be part of a growing healthcare company

4 weekly pay

Continuous professional development and training

Values led culture

Overtime available at an enhanced rate

Opportunities for progression

Pension plan (if applicable)

Attractive hourly rate

Access NI fee paid for

Uniforms and PPE provided

Monthly incentives and recognition awards

Free parking

We do not offer sponsorship for this role .

Healthcare Ireland are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons.

Skills Needed

About The Company

We are passionate about providing the highest standards of care in safe, positive and flexible environments, which enable each person who uses our services to achieve their potential. We are committed to providing each employee with a fulfilling working environment, encouraging personal and professional development. We aim to be a first class, independent organisation delivering innovative, collaborative and value for money services.

Our ultimate purpose is to work with the people who use our services and their families and friends, to enable them to take control of their lives.

Company Culture

We’re always on the look out for people who care, whether that’s caring for our residents, or in one of our roles like laundry, kitchen, administration or maintenance.

Our passionate, ever-growing team means that you’ll be working with people who pride themselves on the work they do. Each of our Homes and our Head Office work together to achieve something excellent that truly makes a difference in people’s lives.

Caring for our residents is at the heart of all we do, and we’d love to have you join the team.

Desired Criteria

• Previous experience in a care home or healthcare environment

Required Criteria

• The Right to Work in the UK
• A good standard of both verbal and written English
• Previous catering, kitchen or food preparation experience
• Good knowledge of food safety and hygiene practices