Kitchen Assistant

A2Dominion Housing Group Ltd; Ealing; On-site; GBP 10,000 - 40,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading housing association seeks a Kitchen Assistant to join their team. The role involves food preparation, service, and maintaining health standards. Ideal candidates will have a can-do attitude and the ability to engage with vulnerable customers. Full training is provided, making this an excellent opportunity for those looking to start a career in catering.

Benefits

25 days’ holiday (Pro rata)

Up to 8% contributory pension

Investment in learning and development

Employee Assistance Programme

Annual allowance of up to £300 for health benefits

Cycle to Work Scheme

Qualifications

• Experience in a kitchen environment is not essential; full training provided.

Responsibilities

• Preparation and service of food, cleaning of kitchen.
• Meeting dietary and cultural needs of residents.
• Carrying out Health & Safety & Food Hygiene checks.

Skills

Engagement with vulnerable customers

Can-do attitude

Basic IT Literacy

Ability to follow instructions

Ability to work in a fast-paced environment

Job description

Kitchen Assistant
Salary: £12 per hour
Contract type: Permanent, Part Time (16 hours per week)
Shift patterns: Sat, Sun, Mon, Tues 10am-2pm or 9.30am-1.30pm (flexibility required)
Location: Cornerstones, Tilehurst, Berkshire (on-site)

About us
We’re a UK housing association committed to a new vision – providing homes people love to live in.
With over 38,000 homes in management across London and southern England, we provide a wide range of homes for social, affordable and private rent, specialist housing services, as well as homes for sale and shared ownership.

Our 70,000 customers have diverse backgrounds and levels of income and we’re here to provide all of them with homes that are safe, high quality and sustainable. And with social housing roots going back eight decades, we continue to ensure that every penny of profit we make is reinvested into our charitable social purpose – delivering more homes and better services for customers.

We’re also members of the G15, a group of leading housing associations that work together to house one in ten Londoners and tackle the housing crisis.

About the role
We’re searching for aKitchen Assistantto join our friendly and hard-working team at A2Dominion.

Key responsibilities:
•Preparation and service of food, and cleaning of kitchen.
•Food service operative preparing packed teas and service meals to residents meeting Company and Environmental Health Standards. Taking Responsibility for Particular dietary and cultural needs.
•Completing your segments in all cleaning records.
•Reporting resident feedback to manager.
•Carry out Health & Safety & Food Hygiene standards checks as directed by the chef manage, in line with A2Dominion Catering Standards and taking responsibility that all practices meet the statutory regulations, including the Registered Homes Act 1984, and A2Dominions Health & Safety policy
•Supporting Manager in preparing and responding to inspections and audits by external authorities and other bodies and fulfilling reporting requirements.
•Take Responsibility for Acting up as chef as required following induction.
•Ability to take responsibility for restaurant front of house service delivery and maintaining the standards set by the Catering Manager

More about you
For this role, we’re looking for someone with the following:
•Ability to engage with vulnerable customers and their families
•Can-do attitude
•Basic IT Literacy skills
•Ability to follow instructions from Chef Manager and Catering Manager
•Ability to work in a fast-paced environment
•Experience working in a kitchen environment previously is not essential – full training provided.

Choosing us is easy
As an employee of A2Dominion, we want you to feel rewarded and have a choice of flexible benefits, salary exchange benefits, and rewards and discounts that work for you, wherever you are in your life.

We offer a wide range of staff benefits. For this role, these include:
•25 days’ holiday (Pro rata) increasing up to 28 days with 3 years of service
•Up to 8% contributory pension
•Investment in your learning and development.
•Employee Assistance Programme

In addition, all permanent and fixed-term employees receive a generous annual allowance of up to £300 to use towards health and lifestyle benefits for both you and your family.

We also operate a Cycle to Work Scheme whereby employees have access to cycling equipment throughout the year and can pay via monthly salary deductions.

Whatever the role, we want you to bring your knowledge and experience to play your part in improving people’s lives.
If you require a reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process, please contact our Resourcing Team to request: [e-mail]

A2Dominion Group is a Disability Confident Employer which means that we are committed to employing disabled people and will:
• actively look to attract and recruit disabled people
• provide a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process
•offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the job
•be flexible with assessing people so disabled applicants have the best opportunity to demonstrate that they can do the job
•make reasonable adjustments as required

At A2Dominion Group, we recognise the positive value of diversity, promote equality and inclusivity in our hiring processes. We always aim to recruit the person who is most suited to the job and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds – men and women, people of all ages, sexual orientations, nationalities, religions, and beliefs.

Meeting the role requirements
We recognise that some people will only apply for a role if they meet 100% of role requirements. If this sounds like you, we’d still encourage you to apply and also to arrange a call with one of our Resourcing Team to discuss your application further at [e-mail].

A2Dominion is proud to be a family friendly employer
Everyone is welcome at A2Dominion Group. We know that equality, diversity, and inclusivity make us better. We embrace the unique contributions of our people and seek to create a workplace where everyone feels like they belong. Find out why our people love working with us.
Join us at A2Dominion, where your expertise will be integral to our recovery journey, creating lasting positive changes in the lives of our customers. If you possess the right motivation and drive to contribute to our recovery and change initiatives, we invite you to apply and be a crucial part of our team.