Kitchen Assistant - Bank - Care Home

NHS; Ashford; On-site; GBP 10,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking healthcare provider as a Bank Kitchen Assistant, where your role is vital in delivering exceptional food and hospitality to residents. This position offers flexibility and the chance to enhance your skills in a supportive environment. You'll be instrumental in ensuring that residents enjoy nutritious meals, contributing to their overall well-being. With opportunities for development and the potential for a permanent role, this is a rewarding chance to make a difference in the lives of others. If you have a caring nature and a commitment to quality, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Benefits

Flexible working hours

Free learning and development opportunities

Participation in Barchester Hospitality Awards

Qualifications

• No formal qualifications required, but experience in a similar role is beneficial.
• Commitment to maintaining high standards in food preparation.

Responsibilities

• Provide cover for planned or unplanned absences in the kitchen.
• Help produce meals and create a fulfilling dining experience.

Skills

Attention to detail

People skills

Flexibility

Education

Experience in a commercial or care setting

Job description

Job Summary

As a Bank Kitchen Assistant at a Barchester care home, you'll help to provide the first-class food and hospitality that enable us to give our residents exceptional all-round care and support. A healthy, nutritious diet is vital to ensuring our residents' wellbeing and helping them enjoy daily life with us, which is why the role of Bank Kitchen Assistant is so important.

Main Duties of the Job

Providing cover for any planned or unplanned absences, you'll help to produce meals and create a fulfilling dining experience for every resident. You'll be an asset to your colleagues and your impact will reach beyond the kitchen too. There'll be plenty of opportunities for you to get to know our residents and enhance their hospitality experience.

About Us

Barchester Healthcare is one of the UK's leading healthcare providers, operating over 200 care homes and retirement living villages across the country. They are committed to providing high-quality care and supporting their staff to develop and progress in their careers.

Date Posted: 29 March 2025

Pay Scheme: Other

Salary: £13.34 an hour

Contract: Bank

Working Pattern: Flexible working

Reference Number: 1269715078

Job Locations:

Barchester Healthcare, Ashford, TN24 0LX

Job Responsibilities

ABOUT THE ROLE

As a Bank Kitchen Assistant at a Barchester care home, you'll help to provide the first-class food and hospitality that enable us to give our residents exceptional all-round care and support. A healthy, nutritious diet is vital to ensuring our residents' wellbeing and helping them enjoy daily life with us, which is why the role of Bank Kitchen Assistant is so important. Providing cover for any planned or unplanned absences, you'll help to produce meals and create a fulfilling dining experience for every resident. You'll be an asset to your colleagues and your impact will reach beyond the kitchen too. There'll be plenty of opportunities for you to get to know our residents and enhance their hospitality experience.

ABOUT YOU

When you join us as a Bank Kitchen Assistant, you'll play a crucial role in the success of your care home. That's why we're looking for someone who's committed to maintaining the highest standards in the kitchen and during the food preparation process. You should be reliable, considerate and caring in your approach, and flexible when it comes to your work patterns. Formal qualifications aren't necessary, although any similar experience gained in a commercial or care setting would be useful.

REWARDS PACKAGE

As well as competitive pay, you can look forward to a role that offers true flexibility and plenty of free learning and development opportunities. As one of the UK's leading healthcare providers, we take catering seriously and even run a fiercely-contested annual Barchester Hospitality Awards. If you do well in this role it could lead to a permanent one.

As this is a Bank position to provide cover as and when we need it, such as for annual leave or sick leave, the hours and days you work will vary.

If you'd like to use your attention to detail and people skills in an organisation that provides the quality care you'd expect for your loved ones, this is a rewarding place to be.

Person Specification Qualifications Essential

• Formal qualifications aren't necessary, although any similar experience gained in a commercial or care setting would be useful.

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

Employer Name: Barchester Healthcare

Address: Barchester Healthcare, Ashford, TN24 0LX

Employer's Website: https://www.barchester.com/