Kitchen Assistant - Bank

This is a temporary Kitchen Assistant role at Avery Healthcare's Birchmere Mews Care Home in Knowle. The focus is on supporting the catering function in food preparation and maintaining a clean environment for safe production of meals and beverages, ensuring a high-quality service is delivered to residents.

About Avery

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

Main duties of the job

As a Kitchen Assistant, your responsibilities will include understanding food hygiene principles, contributing to teamwork, advising on supply and quality of items, and displaying a caring and understanding attitude towards residents. You should have a Basic Food Hygiene Certificate, knowledge of health and safety, and be an efficient, flexible, and physically capable worker.

Job responsibilities

• Support the catering function in food preparation and maintain a clean environment for the safe production of beverages and meals, ensuring a high-quality and comprehensive service is delivered to residents.
• Understand the principles of safe food handling to ensure all food preparations undertaken in the kitchen meet the highest standards of hygiene.
• Contribute fully to team working, respond positively to colleagues, and action all reasonable work instructions promptly.
• Advise on the supply and quality of items used to carry out tasks, ensuring timely and appropriate ordering of replacement goods.
• Act with consideration towards residents and their visitors, respecting the dignity and individuality of each resident.

About you

• Hold a Basic Food Hygiene Certificate and demonstrate high standards of personal hygiene.
• Have 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 for team working.
• Exhibit a caring and understanding attitude towards residents.

Additional requirements

• A DBS Disclosure check, the cost of which will be met by Avery Healthcare.
• Proof of eligibility to work in the UK.

Please note this role may be withdrawn prior to the advertised deadline depending on the volume of applications received and business needs.

Person Specification Qualifications

• You should hold a Basic Food Hygiene Certificate and demonstrate high standards of personal hygiene. Knowledge of Health and Safety, particularly Moving and Handling, Fire Safety, and COSHH assessments is also required.

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.