Kitchen Assistant inBrentwood Arches Care Home inBrentwood Arches Care Home PUBLISHED WED 6 NOV 2024

PERMANENT GOOD SALARY

Avery Healthcare Group Ltd. rU0DtSVz

Contribute to the well-being of residents by providing high-quality meals and beverages, enhancing their daily lives.

Work in a supportive and caring environment, which emphasizes teamwork and collaboration with dedicated colleagues.

Opportunities for career development, including access to apprenticeships and training programs to enhance skills.

Enjoy various benefits, such as leisure and retail discounts, which improve your overall job satisfaction.

Gain valuable experience in food safety and hygiene, which are essential skills in the culinary and healthcare sectors.

Engage with residents in meaningful ways, respecting their dignity and individuality while fostering a warm atmosphere.

Join a reputable organization recognized for its commitment to quality care and employee welfare, enhancing job security.

The Kitchen Assistant role at Avery Healthcare's Brentwood Arches Care Home involves supporting food preparation and maintaining cleanliness in the kitchen to ensure safe and high-quality meal service for residents. Responsibilities include understanding safe food handling practices, collaborating effectively with the team, managing supplies, and interacting respectfully with residents and their visitors. Ideal candidates should hold a Basic Food Hygiene Certificate, have knowledge of health and safety regulations, be capable of handling a physically demanding workload, and demonstrate a caring attitude. The position requires a DBS Disclosure check and proof of eligibility to work in the UK. Avery Healthcare emphasises career development and employee support, offering various apprenticeships and discounts.

This role as a Kitchen Assistant at Avery Healthcare's Brentwood Arches Care Home in London will involve 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.

As a Kitchen Assistant, your focus will be 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. Other responsibilities will include understanding the principles of safe food handling, contributing to team working, advising on supply and quality of items, and acting with care and understanding towards the residents.

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 byoffering a variety of apprenticeships, and provide you with access to a range of leisure and retail discounts.
We are nowseekingacompassionate,enthusiastic, and dedicatedindividualto join our friendly, award-winning team as Kitchen Assistant.
ABOUT THE ROLE
Your focus as Kitchen Assistant is tosupport 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.
Other responsibilitieswillinclude:

Understanding the 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, youwill 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 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 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 lives together 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.
This advert may be withdrawn prior to the advertised deadline depending on the volume of applications received and business needs.

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