Kitchen Assistant - Bank

Overview

We are looking for a warm, enthusiastic, and dedicated Kitchen Assistant to join our award-winning team at Horse Fair Care Home in Staffordshire.

In this role you will support the catering function in food preparation, maintain a clean environment, and ensure safe production of beverages and meals for our residents.

If this sounds like the place for you, we would love to hear from you!

Responsibilities

Your focus as Kitchen Assistant is to support the catering function in food preparation and maintaining a clean environment for the safe production of beverages and meals, ensuring a high quality and comprehensive service is delivered to residents.

• Understanding the principles of safe food handling, ensuring all food preparations are undertaken to the highest standards of hygiene.
• Contributing fully to team working, responding positively to colleagues, and acting on all reasonable work instructions promptly.
• Advising on the supply and quality of items used to carry out tasks, ensuring the timely and appropriate ordering of replacement goods.
• Acting accordingly towards residents and visitors, respecting the dignity and individuality of each resident.

Qualifications

• Basic Food Hygiene Certificate.
• Knowledge of Health and Safety, including Moving and Handling techniques, Fire Safety and COSHH assessments.
• Demonstrated high standard of personal hygiene.
• Efficient worker, capable of a high level of sustained physical effort and responsive to a demanding workload.
• Demonstrated initiative, positive and flexible attitude to team working, and caring and understanding attitude towards residents.

Requirements

• DBS Disclosure check (the cost of which will be met by Avery Healthcare).
• Proof of eligibility to work in the UK.
• Actively live our values of caring, supportive, honest, respectful, and accountable in all that you do.

Disclosures 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 to check for any previous criminal convictions.