Kitchen Assistant

Avery Healthcare Group Ltd.; East Midlands; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 22,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading elderly care provider in East Midlands is looking for a dedicated Kitchen Assistant. In this role, you'll support food preparation and ensure cleanliness while delivering exceptional service to residents. Candidates should possess a Basic Food Hygiene Certificate and demonstrate a caring attitude. This position offers an opportunity to work in a supportive team culture and make a positive impact on residents' lives.

Benefits

Opportunities for learning and development

Supportive team environment

Celebrate achievements of employees

Qualifications

• Understanding of safe food handling principles and hygiene standards.
• Ability to respond to a demanding workload with high physical effort.
• Exhibit initiative and a positive attitude towards teamwork.

Responsibilities

• Support food preparation and maintain cleanliness in the kitchen.
• Contribute positively to team activities.
• Advise on supply quality and timely ordering of goods.

Skills

Basic Food Hygiene Certificate

Health and Safety knowledge

Caring attitude

Teamwork

Education

Basic Food Hygiene Certificate

Job description

Overview

Avery Healthcare is one of the UK's largest providers of luxury elderly care homes, with over 100 homes across the country. They are committed to creating meaningful lives together and offering exceptional care in a supportive and inspiring environment where employees feel valued and empowered.

Main duties of the job

As a Kitchen Assistant at Avery Healthcare in Littleover, you 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. Your responsibilities will include understanding food hygiene principles, contributing to teamwork, advising on supply and quality of items, and exhibiting a caring and understanding attitude towards residents.

Job responsibilities

Package Description:

Shift Details: Mon-Sun- 0700-1830 on a rostered basis

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. 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!

Job description

Job responsibilities

Package Description:

Shift Details: Mon-Sun- 0700-1830 on a rostered basis

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. 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 team working, 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.

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 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.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• To be successful, you will need a Basic Food Hygiene Certificate, knowledge of Health and Safety, and the ability to work efficiently and respond to a demanding workload. You should also demonstrate a caring and understanding attitude towards residents.