Kitchen Assistant

NHS; Strood; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

A care home provider is seeking a passionate Kitchen/Catering Assistant to ensure smooth kitchen operations while delivering a high-quality dining experience for residents. Responsibilities include menu creation, plating, and personalizing service to meet individual dietary needs. A Basic Food Hygiene Certificate and prior kitchen experience are essential for this role. Join this caring team, where you’ll make a positive difference in the lives of elderly residents.

Benefits

Pension contribution of 5%

Uniform provided

28 days annual leave

Qualifications

• Experience of working within a similar environment.
• Basic Food Hygiene Certificate must be obtained.
• Warm, approachable, and engaging persona required.

Responsibilities

• Ensure the smooth running of the kitchen and high-quality dining experience.
• Create menus and arrange trollies for service.
• Care for residents, ensuring their needs are met at mealtimes.

Skills

Kitchen and food preparation experience

Basic Food Hygiene Certificate

Caring nature

Flexibility

Ability to work under pressure

Job description

Akari Care is committed to creating an environment where their residents are valued, respected, and offered personalized care. They are seeking a passionate Kitchen/Catering Assistant who can ensure the smooth and efficient running of their care home kitchen and provide a high-quality dining experience for their residents.

Main duties of the job

The Kitchen/Catering Assistant will be responsible for all practical duties in the busy care home kitchen, including creating menus, plating up, arranging trollies, and ensuring each resident's individual needs are catered for. They will be the critical link between the kitchen and the serving areas, and will be jointly responsible for caring for the residents and ensuring mealtimes are an enjoyable experience.

About us

Akari Care is an award-winning provider of residential care for the elderly. They are committed to upholding their values and creating an environment where their residents are valued, respected, and offered the personalized 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

AKSPO

Person Specification

Qualifications

• The successful candidate will have experience working in a similar environment, kitchen and food preparation experience, and a Basic Food Hygiene Certificate. They will also need to demonstrate a caring nature, flexibility, adaptability, and the ability to work well under pressure.

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.