Kitchen Assistant - Bank

Overview

This temporary Kitchen Assistant role at Carrstone House Care Home in Downham Market involves supporting the catering function in food preparation and maintaining a clean environment for the safe production of beverages and meals. The successful candidate will have a caring and understanding attitude towards the residents and demonstrate strong teamwork and hygiene skills.

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 the supply and quality of items, and acting accordingly towards residents and their visitors.

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

Package

Description:

At Avery Healthcare, we support the people who care for our residents. We celebrate and support you every step of the way. When you join us, you ll make a positive impact on residents  lives every day. You ll have opportunities to grow in a caring, supportive environment with development throughout your career. We are looking for a warm, enthusiastic, and dedicated individual to join our award-winning team as a Kitchen Assistant - Bank at Carrstone House Care Home in Downham Market.

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

ABOUT THE ROLE

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.

Other responsibilities will include:

• Understanding the principles of safe food handling, to ensure all food preparations undertaken in the kitchen are to the highest standards of hygiene.
• Contributing fully to teamwork, responding positively to colleagues, and actioning 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 their visitors, respecting the dignity and individuality of each resident.

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 candidate must:

• Hold 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 a positive and flexible aptitude for team working.
• Exhibit a caring and understanding attitude towards the residents.

At Avery, we are not just one of the UK s largest providers of luxury elderly care homes; we are a place where people love to work. We believe the later years of life should be enriching, and we are passionate about creating meaningful experiences for our residents and our team. With a vision of "creating meaningful lives together," we offer exceptional care across a growing network of over 100 homes, building a supportive and inspiring environment where employees feel valued and empowered every day.

Package

Description:

At Avery Healthcare, we support the people who care for our residents. We celebrate and support you every step of the way. When you join us, you ll make a positive impact on residents  lives every day. You ll have opportunities to grow in a caring, supportive environment with development throughout your career. We are looking for a warm, enthusiastic,…