Kitchen Assistant

Nexxuscare; Leyfields; On-site; GBP 10,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A caring organization in Leyfields is seeking a Kitchen Assistant to support the nutritional needs of care home residents. This role offers 4 shifts per week, with both morning and evening shifts. Candidates should have a passion for food and the ability to communicate effectively. Benefits include a competitive pay structure and various discounts. Full training will be provided, and experience in a residential setting is beneficial.

Benefits

Refer a friend scheme

Mend Your Motors discount warranty

Access to free counselling service

Paid training and funded diploma

Funded DBS

Qualifications

• Experience in a residential home is beneficial.
• Good communicator with record keeping skills.
• Genuine passion for food and dietary requirements.

Responsibilities

• Maintain kitchen protocol and ensure safe food handling.
• Ensure meals are ready on time and prepare at least three options for lunch.
• Delegate work to kitchen assistants and monitor completion.

Skills

Communication skills

Record keeping

Focus

Passion for food

Job description

About The Role

Meadowyrthe - Kitchen Assistant.

Nexxus Care are recruiting a kitchen assistant for one of our residential homes in Tamworth.

This post consists of 4 shifts per week, mornings and evenings shifts (on occasion would be required to cover the cook, full training would be provided).

This is a unique and rewarding role where you will be supporting the nutritional needs of our care home residents.

As well as a competitive pay structure, Nexxus Care offer a wide range of benefits such as:

• Refer a friend scheme
• Mend Your motors discount warranty & AA membership discount – In case of those unexpected car troubles
• Access to free counselling service – We want to ensure that you’re looked after in every way possible
• Paid training and funded diploma – T&C’s apply
• Funded DBS – T&C’s apply

About You

Qualities were looking for:

• Experience of working within a residential home is beneficial
• Good communicator
• Good record keeping skills - documenting information in accordancetoguidelines
• Focused
• Genuinepassion for food and for our residents dietary requirements

What we need from you:

• Ensure kitchen protocol is maintained
• Ensure safe food handling is adhered to ie frozen foods are defrosted before using
• To ensure all meals are ready at the appropriate time
• To offer and prepare, if necessary, at least three main options for lunch each day ensuring that fresh vegetables are used
• To delegate appropriate work to the kitchen assistant as required and monitor that this has been carried out to a satisfactory level
• To ensure cleaning completed as per rota
• Prepare fresh cakes for afternoon tea/special occasions
• To be a good all rounder within the kitchen team, stepping up and supporting cook when required.
• Adhere to COSH policies, procedures and documentation requirements
• Complete relevant in house training in accordancewith job description
• Completion of satisfactory DBS checks

About Us

Nexxus care are a Staffordshire County Council owned company and our goal is to provide outstanding domiciliary, reablement, extra care and residential support to our clients, as we understand the importance of caring for people in the familiarity of their own home, we built our services around people, not processes or tasks.

• We are ambitious, courageous and empowering
• We support and enable our staff to make things better
• We are open to doing things differently and will make best use of new technologies.
• We are bold and willing to take difficult decisions in a commercial operating context.
• We will make a contribution to tackling climate change