Kitchen Assistant - Care Home

Barchester Healthcare Homes Limited; Bourne; On-site; GBP 10,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading care home provider in the UK is seeking a Kitchen Assistant to help provide exceptional food and hospitality for their residents. In this important role, you'll assist in meal production and enhance the dining experience while developing your skills. Ideal candidates are reliable and caring, eager to contribute to a positive environment in the care home. This position offers a competitive pay rate and an extensive rewards package including free training, wellbeing support, and employee recognition programs.

Benefits

Free training and development

Access to wellbeing and support tools

Retail discounts

Refer a Friend bonus

Employee recognition rewards

Qualifications

• Experience in a kitchen or similar role is beneficial.
• Formal qualifications are not necessary, but reliability and care are crucial.
• Ability to maintain high standards in food preparation.

Responsibilities

• Help produce meals and create a fulfilling dining experience.
• Support your colleagues and enhance residents' hospitality.

Skills

Attention to detail

Reliability

Caring approach

Job description

ABOUT THE ROLE

As a 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 Kitchen Assistant is so important. 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, enhance their hospitality experience and develop your skills.

ABOUT YOU

When you join us as a 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. Formal qualifications aren't necessary, although any similar experience gained in a commercial or care setting would be useful.

REWARDS PACKAGE

In return for your dedication, you'll receive a competitive rate of pay plus our sector-leading benefits and rewards package including:

• Free training and development for all roles
• Access to wellbeing and support tools
• A range of retail discounts and savings
• Unlimited referrals with our Refer a Friend' bonus scheme
• Employee of the Month' rewards and Long Service Awards'

And so much more!

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.