Kitchen Assistant

Akorn Recruitment; England; On-site; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a Kitchen Assistant to join their friendly kitchen team. The role involves cleaning, food preparation, and serving meals. Candidates should have good customer service skills and their own transport. Immediate start available.

Qualifications

• Must have own transport due to location.
• Enhanced DBS clearance required.

Responsibilities

• Cleaning and tidying up the kitchen and dining area.
• Operating the dishwasher and helping with food preparation.
• Serving during breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

Skills

Customer Service

Teamwork

Job description

Our client is looking for a Kitchen Assistant, to work 40 hours weekly, 8 hour shifts. With an immediate start.

Initial hourly rate GBP12.21 per hour gross.

Regular shifts are 7am to 3:30pm with half hour unpaid break or 11am to 7:30pm with again half hour unpaid break.

Five days out of seven with weekends when needed (either full Saturday + Sunday or partial only Saturday or only Sunday).

Key Job requirements:

Cleaning and tidying up the kitchen and the dining area.

Operating the dishwasher, sweeping and mopping the floor, collect the rubbish and position it in the outdoor refuse bins.

These tasks will probably take up 70% of the Kitchen Assistant time.

Moreover the Kitchen Assistant will help with serving during breakfast, lunch and dinner when required, so a reasonable understanding of good Customer Service practices will help.

He/she can also be involved in some simple food preparation by helping the Chef/s.

Preparing fruit salads, cutting cakes into portion, sizes etc

Our client runs a small friendly kitchen team and they are very much looking to find a candidate that is happy to be part of the team and is quick on his/her feet and efficient.

There is a certain amount of on line training that will need to be done ( Health & Safety, Food Safety etc ).

The candidate will need to have clearance with an enhanced DBS which our client will process.

It is essential candidates have their own transport due to the location.