Kitchen Assistant

Healthcare Ireland Group; Eglinton; On-site; GBP 12,000 - 18,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid annual leave

Overtime enhanced rate

Pension plan (if applicable)

Uniforms and PPE provided

Free parking

Monthly incentives and recognition

Job summary

Healthcare Ireland Group is seeking a Kitchen Assistant for Longfield Care Home on the outskirts of Eglinton, near Derry. Join a dedicated team delivering high-quality, person-centred dining experiences in a supportive, award-winning environment.

The Kitchen Assistant supports the kitchen team, ensuring residents receive nutritious meals, meets dietary needs, and helps maintain a safe, clean, and positive working atmosphere within the kitchen and home.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Ensures catering stock and equipment are stored and accounted for per Assured Safe Catering standards.
• Delivers meals and catering supplies to various areas within the unit.
• Assists with basic food preparation under direction.
• Maintains cleanliness of kitchen, catering and servery areas per standards.
• Keeps a clean and tidy environment throughout the home and ensures compliance with regulations.
• Undertakes other duties as designated by the Chef or Cook

Skills

Catering experience

Food safety

English proficiency

Job description

Kitchen Assistant

The Home

Join Our Award-Winning Team at Longfield Care Home

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.

If you’re passionate about delivering high-quality, person-centred care in a supportive and award-winning environment, we’d love to hear from you.

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

• 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. This is a casual/Bank role.

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

About the company

Healthcare Ireland provides care services in an environment where individuality is emphasised and the privacy and dignity of all our residents is recognised. We currently have over 1,800 employees throughout our 25 Homes. We are incredibly proud of not only the work our employees do, but the quality of care we are able to offer as result of their commitment.

We started Healthcare Ireland Group in July 2015 with the opening of Bradley Manor Care Home. Our categories of care include general and dementia nursing, dementia residential, mental health, physical disability and learning disability.

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

Desired Criteria

• Previous experience in a care home or healthcare environment