Kitchen Assistant - Bank - Care Home

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

Job summary

An established industry player in healthcare seeks a dedicated Bank Kitchen Assistant to enhance the dining experience of residents in a care home. This role is essential for ensuring that residents receive nutritious meals and exceptional hospitality. You will be responsible for meal preparation, providing flexibility in coverage for absences, and maintaining high standards in food preparation. If you are reliable, caring, and have a passion for improving the lives of others, this opportunity is perfect for you. Join a supportive team where your contributions will make a significant impact on the wellbeing of residents.

Qualifications

• No formal qualifications are necessary, but experience in a similar role is helpful.
• Must be reliable, caring, and flexible in work patterns.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Reliability

Consideration

Caring approach

Flexibility

Education

Experience in commercial or care setting

Job description

As a Bank Kitchen Assistant at a Barchester care home, you'll help to provide the first-class food and hospitality that enable the organization to give residents exceptional all-round care and support. A healthy, nutritious diet is vital to ensuring the residents' wellbeing and helping them enjoy daily life, which is why this role is so important. You'll be an asset to your colleagues and your impact will reach beyond the kitchen.

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 should be reliable, considerate and caring in your approach, and flexible when it comes to your work patterns.

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.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• 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.