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Kitchen Assistant - Care Home

NHS

Wisbech

On-site

GBP 10,000 - 40,000

Full time

8 days ago

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Job summary

Join a forward-thinking care home as a Kitchen Assistant, where your role is vital in providing exceptional food and hospitality. You'll help produce nutritious meals and enhance the dining experience for residents, ensuring their wellbeing and enjoyment of daily life. This position offers the chance to connect with residents, develop your skills, and contribute to a caring environment. With no formal qualifications required, your reliability and caring nature are what truly matter. Be part of a team that makes a difference in the lives of those in care, while enjoying a fulfilling role in a supportive setting.

Qualifications

  • No formal qualifications required, but experience in food preparation is beneficial.
  • Must be reliable and have a caring attitude towards residents.

Responsibilities

  • Assist in meal preparation and create a fulfilling dining experience.
  • Maintain high standards in the kitchen and during food preparation.

Skills

Food Preparation
Hospitality
Teamwork
Reliability
Caring Attitude

Education

Experience in a commercial or care setting

Job description

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.

Main duties of the job

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 us

Barchester Healthcare is a leading provider of care and support services in the UK, operating over 200 quality care homes across the country. They are committed to providing exceptional care and support to their residents, helping them to live fulfilling and independent 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.

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.

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