Kitchen Assistant - Bank

NHS; Gravesend; On-site; GBP 10,000 - 40,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading elderly care service provider is seeking a Kitchen Assistant in Gravesend. This role involves supporting food preparation and maintaining a safe and clean kitchen, ensuring high-quality service for residents. The ideal candidate should hold a Basic Food Hygiene Certificate and possess a caring attitude, with a focus on teamwork and safety in food handling. This position offers a flexible working pattern and is essential for enhancing residents' lives at our luxury care home.

Benefits

Supportive work environment

Opportunities for career development

Qualifications

• Hold a Basic Food Hygiene Certificate and demonstrate high standards of personal hygiene.
• Efficient worker capable of high physical effort and demanding workload.
• Positive and flexible aptitude for team working.

Responsibilities

• Support catering function in food preparation and maintain clean environment.
• Ensure safe food handling practices are followed.
• Advise on supply and quality of items used for tasks.

Skills

Basic Food Hygiene Certificate

Knowledge of Health and Safety

Team working

Caring and understanding attitude

Job description

Job summary

Avery Healthcare is one of the UK's largest providers of luxury elderly care homes, offering exceptional care across a growing network of over 100 homes. They are passionate about creating meaningful experiences for their residents and team members, building a supportive and inspiring environment where employees feel valued and empowered.

Main duties of the job

As a Kitchen Assistant, you will support the catering function in food preparation and maintaining a clean environment for the safe production of beverages and meals, ensuring a high-quality and comprehensive service is delivered to residents. Your responsibilities will include understanding the principles of safe food handling, contributing to team working, advising on the supply and quality of items, and exhibiting a caring and understanding attitude towards the residents.

About us

Avery Healthcare is one of the UK's largest providers of luxury elderly care homes, offering exceptional care across a growing network of over 100 homes. They are passionate about creating meaningful experiences for their residents and team members, building a supportive and inspiring environment where employees feel valued and empowered.

Date posted: 19 December 2025

Pay scheme: Other

Salary: £12.25 an hour

Contract: Bank

Working pattern: Flexible working

Reference number: 1446111388

Job locations

Avery Healthcare

Gravesend

DA12 5AL

Package Description

Shift patterns: 10 hours

At Avery Healthcare, we are all about supporting the people who care for our residents. We know how hard our teams work, and we're here to celebrate and support you every step of the way. When you join us, you'll be making a positive impact on residents lives every day your compassion and dedication truly make a difference. We're committed to helping you grow in a caring, supportive environment, with opportunities to learn and develop throughout your career. And as part of our close-knit team, you'll experience a culture that values respect, compassion, and a shared commitment to exceptional care. We're now looking for a warm, enthusiastic, and dedicated individual to join our award‑winning team as a Kitchen Assistant. If this sounds like the place for you, we'd love to hear from you!

ABOUT THE ROLE

Your focus as Kitchen Assistant is to support the catering function in food preparation and maintaining a clean environment for the safe production of beverages and meals, ensuring a high quality and comprehensive service is delivered to residents.

Other responsibilities will include:

• Understanding the principles of safe food handling, to ensure all food preparations undertaken in the kitchen is to the highest standards of hygiene.
• Contributing fully to team working, responding positively to colleagues, and actioning all reasonable work instructions promptly.
• Advising on the supply and quality of items used to carry out tasks, ensuring the timely and appropriate ordering of replacement goods.
• Acting accordingly towards residents and their visitors, respecting the dignity and individuality of each resident.

ABOUT YOU

To be successful in your application, you will live our values of caring, supportive, honest, respectful, and accountable in all that you do.

Our ideal candidate must:

• Hold Basic Food Hygiene Certificate and demonstrate high standards of personal hygiene.
• Have knowledge of Health and Safety, particularly Moving and Handling techniques, Fire Safety and COSHH assessments.
• Be an efficient worker, capable of a high level of sustained physical effort and able to respond to a demanding workload.
• Demonstrate initiative and display a positive and flexible aptitude to team working.
• Exhibit a caring and understanding attitude towards the residents.

ABOUT AVERY

At Avery, we’re not just one of the UK's largest providers of luxury elderly care homes; we’re a place where people love to work. We believe that the later years of life should be as enriching as any other, and we’re passionate about creating meaningful experiences for our residents and our team alike. With our vision of "creating meaningful lives together," we proudly offer exceptional care across our growing network of over 100 homes, building a supportive and inspiring environment where employees feel valued and empowered every day. Join us and see why Avery is the preferred choice for residents and team members alike.

Requirements

• A DBS Disclosure check, the cost of which will be met by Avery Healthcare.
• Proof of eligibility to work in the UK.

Person Specification – Qualifications (Essential)

To be successful, you will need to hold a Basic Food Hygiene Certificate and demonstrate high standards of personal hygiene. You should also have knowledge of Health and Safety, particularly Moving and Handling techniques, Fire Safety and COSHH assessments. Additionally, you should be an efficient worker, capable of a high level of sustained physical effort and able to respond to a demanding workload, as well as display a positive and flexible aptitude to team working and exhibit a caring and understanding attitude towards the residents.

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.

Employer details

Avery Healthcare Group Ltd.

Avery Healthcare

Gravesend

DA12 5AL

Employer's website

https://www.averyhealthcare.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)