Kitchen Assistant

Sight Scotland Veterans; Paisley; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 22,000; Full time

Job summary

Sight Scotland Veterans at the Hawkhead Centre is seeking a Kitchen Assistant to support our Centre Services Manager and Chef in preparing nutritious meals and maintaining a safe, clean kitchen environment.

You will assist with food preparation, meal service and washing up, while ensuring Food Hygiene and Health & Safety standards are followed. A friendly, supportive team welcomes you to help veterans with sight loss enjoy varied meals.

Responsibilities

• Assist in the preparation of high-quality food as directed by the chef.
• Assist with meal service.
• Assist with clearing and washing up.
• Maintain a clean, safe working environment per schedules set by the Centre manager/Senior.
• Ensure Food Hygiene and Health & Safety recommendations are complied with.
• Advise the Chef/Senior/Deputy Centre manager of any equipment or fittings malfunction or maintenance needs.

Skills

Food hygiene awareness

Job description

At the Hawkhead centre, we provide innovative services to veterans who have various degrees of Sight Loss.This job exists to support the Centre Services Manager/Senior and Chef to provide a safe working environment and plan a varied and nutritious diet for veterans who attend.You will work be working in a fun and friendly environment.

What does a day in this role look like?

• To assist in the preparation of high-quality food as directed by the chef
• To assist with meal service
• To assist with clearing and washing up.
• To maintain a clean, safe working environment as directed by the Centre manager/Senior and by working to cleaning schedules
• To ensure Food Hygiene and Health & Safety recommendations are complied with.
• To advise the of any concerns in relation to Food Hygiene and Health & Safety
• To advise the Chef/Senior/Deputy Centre manager of any malfunction of equipment or fittings that require maintenance or cannot be kept to standard through normal cleaning procedures.

About us

For more than 230 years we've been supporting and empowering people with sight loss to live fulfilling lives. We’re proud of what we’ve achieved, but we want to do more. We will build on our rich history to create an organisation which is prepared for the future, and ready to respond to the needs of people impacted by vision loss.

Our vision is bold

We want to be at the leading edge of positive societal change by:

• Investing our funds in the support that makes the biggest difference
• Putting our community at the heart of what we do
• Campaigning for change
• Accelerating prevention and treatment of eye conditions
• Fostering a collaborative culture of innovation and learning

We're determined that no-one should face sight loss alone. We're committed to improving, diversifying and growing our services to make sure we can reach many more people with sight loss - when and where they need us.

Our organisational values - Transform, Unite and Thrive - underpin all the work we do at Sight Scotland and Sight Scotland Veterans.