Kitchen Assistant - Bank

NHS; Lichfield; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 24,000; Full time

Job summary

This innovative firm is seeking a dedicated Kitchen Assistant to join their team in Lichfield. In this temporary role, you will play a vital part in supporting the catering function, ensuring high standards of food preparation and hygiene are met for the residents. Your responsibilities will include maintaining a clean environment, understanding safe food handling, and working collaboratively with your team. If you are caring, supportive, and possess a strong work ethic, this position offers an opportunity to make a meaningful impact in the lives of those you serve. Join a leading provider of elderly care and be part of a compassionate team that values every contribution.

Qualifications

• Basic Food Hygiene Certificate required.
• Knowledge of Health and Safety practices is essential.

Responsibilities

• Support catering function in food preparation and maintain cleanliness.
• Understand safe food handling principles and contribute to team efforts.

Skills

Food Hygiene

Teamwork

Health and Safety Knowledge

Initiative

Caring Attitude

Education

Basic Food Hygiene Certificate

Job description

This is a temporary Kitchen Assistant role at Avery Healthcare in Lichfield. The successful candidate will support the catering function in food preparation and maintaining a clean environment, ensuring a high-quality service is delivered to residents.

Main duties of the job

As a Kitchen Assistant, your focus will be 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, contributing to team working, advising on the supply and quality of items, and acting with care and respect towards residents.

About us

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

Job responsibilities

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 are 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 the 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.

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.