Kitchen Assistant

The role of Kitchen Assistant at Avery Healthcare in Northampton 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.

We are seeking a warm, enthusiastic, and dedicated Kitchen Assistant to join our award-winning team. The successful candidate will work to support the catering function, maintain high hygiene standards, and demonstrate a caring and understanding attitude towards residents.

• Understand the principles of safe food handling and ensure all food preparations meet high standards of hygiene.
• Contribute to team working, respond positively to colleagues, and action 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 toward residents and their visitors with respect for dignity and individuality.
• Shift details: 07:00–19:00 with alternative weekend shifts.

Avery Healthcare is one of the UK's largest providers of luxury elderly care homes, with a vision of "creating meaningful lives together." They are passionate about creating meaningful experiences for residents and employees, offering care across a growing network of over 100 homes and building a supportive and inspiring environment where team members feel valued and empowered every day.

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.

• Hold Basic Food Hygiene Certificate and demonstrate high standards of personal hygiene.
• Knowledge of Health and Safety, particularly Moving and Handling techniques, Fire Safety, and COSHH assessments.
• Be an efficient worker, capable of sustained physical effort and able to respond to a demanding workload.
• Demonstrate initiative and a positive, flexible attitude toward teamwork.
• Exhibit a caring and understanding attitude toward 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 life in later years should be enriching, and we are passionate about creating meaningful experiences for residents and our team. With our vision of "creating meaningful lives together," we offer exceptional care across our network of over 100 homes, building a supportive and inspiring environment where employees feel valued and empowered every day.

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

Note:

This advert may be withdrawn prior to the advertised deadline depending on the volume of applications received and business needs.

• Hold a Basic Food Hygiene Certificate and demonstrate high standards of personal hygiene.
• Knowledge of Health and Safety, particularly Moving and Handling techniques, Fire Safety, and COSHH assessments.
• Be an efficient worker capable of sustained physical effort and able to respond to a demanding workload.
• Demonstrate initiative and a positive, flexible aptitude to teamwork.
• Exhibit a caring and understanding attitude toward residents.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and it will be necessary to submit for Disclosure to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.