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The role of a Kitchen Assistant at Avery Healthcare involves supporting 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. The successful candidate will be compassionate, enthusiastic, and dedicated, with a focus on food hygiene, health and safety, and resident care.
As a Kitchen Assistant, your responsibilities will include understanding the principles of safe food handling, contributing to team working, advising on the supply and quality of items, and acting with respect and dignity towards residents. You will need to hold a Basic Food Hygiene Certificate, have knowledge of Health and Safety, and demonstrate initiative, flexibility, and a caring attitude.
About us
Package Description:
At Avery Healthcare we believe in caring for those who care for our residents; we recognise and celebrate our hard-working colleagues,supportingyour career development witha variety of apprenticeships, and provide you with access to a range of leisure and retail discounts.
We are nowseekingacompassionate,enthusiastic,and dedicatedindividual to join ourfriendly, award-winning team asKitchen Assistant.
ABOUT THE ROLE
Your focus as Kitchen Assistant is tosupportthe 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.
Other responsibilitieswillinclude:
- Understandingthe principles of safe food handling, to ensure all food preparations undertaken in the kitchen is to the highest standards of hygiene.
- Contributingfully to team working, responding positively tocolleagues,and actioning all reasonable work instructions promptly.
- Advisingon the supply and quality of items used to carry out tasks, ensuring thetimelyandappropriate orderingof replacement goods.
- Actingaccordingly towards residents and their visitors, respecting the dignity and individuality of each resident.
ABOUT YOU
To be successful in your application, you will live our values of caring,supportive,honest, respectful, and accountable in all that you do.
Our ideal candidatemust:
- Hold Basic Food Hygiene Certificate anddemonstrateshigh standardsof personal hygiene.
- Have theknowledge of Health and Safety, particularly Moving and Handling techniques, Fire Safety and COSHH assessments.
- Be an efficient worker, capable ofa high levelof sustained physical effort and able to respond to a demandingworkload.
- Demonstrate initiative and display a positive and flexible aptitude to team working.
- Exhibit a caring and understanding attitude towards the residents.
ABOUT AVERY
As one of the largestproviders of luxury elderly care homes in the UK,we believe that the lateryearsof our residents' lives should be as enriching as any other.Our vision of creating meaningful livestogether is reached by the exceptional care and experience we proudly offer throughout our growing portfolio of over 100 care homes whilst establishing ourselves as the preferred choice forresidents and employees.
Please note this role will require:
- A DBS Disclosure check, the cost of which will be met by Avery Healthcare.
- Proof of eligibility to work in the UK.
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