Kitchen Assistant - Bank - Care Home

Barchester Healthcare; South Shields; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 24,000; Part 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 allows you to make a real difference in people's lives by ensuring they enjoy nutritious meals in a caring environment. You'll have the opportunity to work flexibly, covering for planned and unplanned absences, and you'll be recognized for your contributions through various awards. This is a rewarding role that can lead to permanent opportunities, offering you the chance to grow within a respected organization that values quality care and staff development.

Benefits

Flexible working hours

Free learning and development opportunities

Competitive pay

Potential for permanent position

Qualifications

• No formal qualifications required, but experience in a similar role is beneficial.
• Must be reliable, considerate, and flexible in work patterns.

Responsibilities

• Assist in providing first-class food and hospitality for residents.
• Produce meals and create a fulfilling dining experience.

Skills

Attention to detail

People skills

Reliability

Flexibility

Education

Experience in a commercial or care setting

Job description

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.

IMPORTANT NOTE
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.