Kitchen Assistant - Care Home

NHS; Tadcaster; On-site; GBP 10,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job description

This role as a Kitchen Assistant in a Barchester care home is crucial to providing exceptional care and support to residents. You'll be responsible for helping to produce high-quality, nutritious meals and creating a fulfilling dining experience for the residents. Your attention to detail and people skills will be vital in this rewarding role.

Main duties of the job

As a Kitchen Assistant at a Barchester care home, you'll help to provide the first-class food and hospitality that enable the home to give residents exceptional all-round care and support. A healthy, nutritious diet is vital to ensuring residents' wellbeing and helping them enjoy daily life, which is why the role of Kitchen Assistant is so important. You'll help to produce meals and create a fulfilling dining experience for every resident. You'll be an asset to your colleagues and your impact will reach beyond the kitchen too. There'll be plenty of opportunities for you to get to know the residents, enhance their hospitality experience and develop your skills.

About us

Barchester Healthcare is a leading provider of residential, nursing and dementia care for older people across the UK. With over 200 care homes, they are committed to delivering high-quality, person-centred care that enables residents to live fulfilled and meaningful lives.

Job responsibilities

ABOUT THE ROLE As a Kitchen Assistant at a Barchester care home, you'll help to provide the first-class food and hospitality that enable us to give our residents exceptional all-round care and support. A healthy, nutritious diet is vital to ensuring our residents' wellbeing and helping them enjoy daily life with us, which is why the role of Kitchen Assistant is so important. You'll help to produce meals and create a fulfilling dining experience for every resident. You'll be an asset to your colleagues and your impact will reach beyond the kitchen too. There'll be plenty of opportunities for you to get to know our residents, enhance their hospitality experience and develop your skills.

ABOUT YOU When you join us as a Kitchen Assistant, you'll play a crucial role in the success of your care home. That's why we're looking for someone who's committed to maintaining the highest standards in the kitchen and during the food preparation process. You should be reliable, considerate and caring in your approach. Formal qualifications aren't necessary, although any similar experience gained in a commercial or care setting would be useful.

Rewards Package

In return for your dedication, you'll receive a competitive rate of pay plus our sector-leading benefits and rewards package including:

• Free training and development for all roles
• Access to wellbeing and support tools
• A range of retail discounts and savings
• Unlimited referrals with our 'Refer a Friend' bonus scheme
• 'Employee of the Month' rewards and Long Service Awards

And so much more!

If you'd like to use your attention to detail and people skills in an organisation that provides the quality care you'd expect for your loved ones, this is a rewarding place to be.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Formal qualifications aren't necessary, although any similar experience gained in a commercial or care setting would be useful.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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.