Kitchen Assistant

Overview

The role of a Kitchen Assistant at Avery Healthcare 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. The role requires a focus on food hygiene, teamwork, and a caring and understanding attitude towards the residents.

As a Kitchen Assistant, your 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. You will be required to hold a Basic Food Hygiene Certificate and demonstrate high standards of personal hygiene, as well as have knowledge of Health and Safety, particularly Moving and Handling techniques, Fire Safety, and COSHH assessments.

You should be an efficient worker, capable of a high level of sustained physical effort and able to respond to a demanding workload, while also demonstrating initiative and a positive and flexible aptitude to team working.

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 their residents and team members, offering exceptional care across a growing network of over 100 homes and building a supportive and inspiring environment where employees feel valued and empowered.

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At Avery Healthcare, we are all about supporting the people who care for our residents. We know how hard our teams work, and were here to celebrate and support you every step of the way. When you join us, you ll be making a positive impact on residents  lives every day — your compassion and dedication truly make a difference.

We re committed to helping you grow in a caring, supportive environment, with opportunities to learn and develop throughout your career. And as part of our close-knit team, you ll experience a culture that values respect, compassion, and a shared commitment to exceptional care. We re now looking for a warm, enthusiastic, and dedicated individual to join our award-winning team as a Kitchen Assistant.

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

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

Join us and see why Avery is the preferred choice for residents and team members alike.

Package

Description:

At Avery Healthcare, we are all about supporting the people who care for our residents. We know how hard our teams work, and we re here to celebrate and support you every step of the way. When you join us, you ll be making a positive impact on residents  lives every day — your compassion and dedication truly make a difference.

We re committed to helping you grow in a caring, supportive environment, with opportunities to learn and develop throughout your…