Kitchen Assistant

NHS; Newton Aycliffe; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 23,000; Full time

Job summary

A care home provider is seeking a dedicated Kitchen / Catering Assistant to ensure mealtimes are enjoyable and catered to residents' needs. You will work collaboratively with the kitchen team to manage kitchen processes like menu creation and plating. Experience in a similar environment and a Basic Food Hygiene Certificate are required. This role involves a caring nature and the ability to adapt to changing needs. Join a supportive team focused on making a positive impact in the lives of older people.

Benefits

Pension contribution of 5%

Recognition and referral schemes

Uniform provided

Fully funded training

28 days of annual leave including bank holidays

Qualifications

• Experience of working within a similar environment is essential.
• Kitchen and food preparation experience required.
• Basic Food Hygiene Certificate mandatory.
• Must possess a caring nature to provide personalized service.
• Flexibility and adaptability are important.

Responsibilities

• Ensure mealtimes run smoothly and are enjoyable for residents.
• Create menus, plate up, and arrange trollies.
• Dependably support residents with individual needs during mealtimes.
• Work collaboratively with the Cook and catering team.

Skills

Kitchen and food preparation experience

Basic Food Hygiene Certificate

Caring nature

Flexible and adaptable

Work well under pressure

Warm and engaging persona

Job description

Akari Care is committed to upholding values that they created and share. They are seeking an additional Kitchen / Catering Assistant who is passionate about, and thrives on, making a real and positive difference to the lives of older people. The key focus is ensuring mealtimes run smoothly and are an enjoyable experience at Akari Care, where all of their resident's individual needs are catered for.

Main duties of the job

Working in collaboration and unison with the Cook and the wider catering team, the Kitchen Assistant will be responsible for ensuring the smooth, efficient running of all kitchen processes. These will include creating menus, plating up, arranging trollies, and ensuring each of the residents feel directly supported and looked after with the highest quality of support and care. The Kitchen Assistant will also be mindful and conscious to individual religious and cultural backgrounds and how this might impact on meal choices, alongside making sure that all the residents feel they have a personalised service.

About us

Akari Care is an award-winning care home provider that aims to create an environment where their residents are valued, respected, and are offered the personalised care they deserve.

Job responsibilities

Package Description:

If you are passionate about caring for the elderly and want to build a long-term career in one of our award-winning homes, then look no further than Akari Care. Our aim is to create an environment where our residents are valued, respected, and are offered the personalised care they deserve.

Akari Care is committed to upholding values that we created and share. It is, therefore, vitally important that any new colleague embraces and actively promotes our values across the organisation.

We now seek an additional Kitchen / Catering Assistant who is passionate about, and thrives on, making a real and positive difference to the lives of older people.

Working in collaboration and unison with the Cook and the wider catering team you will be responsible for ensuring the smooth, efficient running of all kitchen processes. These will include creating menus, plating up, arranging trollies, and ensuring each of our residents feel directly supported and looked after with the highest quality of support and care.

Whilst you will be involved in all the practical duties you would expect in a busy care home kitchen it is vitally important to continuously ensure that you are mindful and conscious to individual religious and cultural backgrounds and how this might impact on meal choices, alongside making sure that all our residents feel they have a personalised service.

As the critical link between the kitchen and the serving areas you will be conjointly responsible for caring for our residents. The key focus for us is ensuring mealtimes run smoothly and are an enjoyable experience at Akari Care, where all of our residents individual needs are catered for.

By showing us you can match our values with the right desire for personal excellence, community spirit and a kind, caring and compassionate nature, we, in return, can offer you a career developing your knowledge, skills and abilities to support vulnerable adults with the care their individual needs require.

Whats in it for you:

Pension contribution of 5%

Recognition schemes and rewarding referral schemes

Uniform provided and DBS check costs paid

28 days annual leave (based on full-time hours, including Bank Holidays)

Fully funded training and development

Support with personal development plans

The opportunity to grow and develop both personally and professionally

An engaging community environment where everyone is respected and included

What we require from you:

Experience of working within similar environment

Kitchen and food preparation experience required

Basic Food Hygiene Certificate

A caring nature to give everyone a personal approach

Flexible and adaptable to changes at short notice

Work well under pressure without negative impact to those around you

Warm, approachable, and engaging persona

Respect everyone, treating others as you would expect to be treated

Resilient and adaptable to differing needs of colleagues and residents

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Person Specification

Qualifications

• Experience of working within a similar environment, kitchen and food preparation experience, and a Basic Food Hygiene Certificate are required. The candidate should also have a caring nature, be flexible and adaptable, work well under pressure, and have a warm, approachable, and engaging persona.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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.