Kitchen Assistant - Bank

This is a temporary Kitchen Assistant role at Avery Healthcare's Cliftonville Care Home in Northampton. The focus will be on supporting the catering function in food preparation and maintaining a clean environment to deliver a high-quality service to residents.

As a Kitchen Assistant, you will support the catering function in food preparation and maintain 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 undertaken in the kitchen meet the highest standards of hygiene.
• Contributing fully to team working, 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 timely and appropriate ordering of replacement goods.
• Acting respectfully towards residents and their visitors, respecting the dignity and individuality of each resident.

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

To be successful in your application, you will live our values of caring, supportive, honest, respectful, and accountable in all that you do.

• Hold a 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.

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

Shift details:
Mon – Sun.

This advert may be withdrawn prior to the advertised deadline depending on the volume of applications received and business needs.

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 (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.