Kitchen Assistant - Bank

This is a temporary Kitchen Assistant role at Avery Healthcare's Ashurst Mews Care Home in Moulton. The role 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 service is delivered to residents.

As a Kitchen Assistant, your focus will be to 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. Other responsibilities include understanding the principles of safe food handling, contributing to team working, advising on the supply and quality of items, and acting with respect towards residents and their visitors.

Avery Healthcare is one of the UK's largest providers of luxury elderly care homes, with a vision of “creating meaningful lives together”. They offer exceptional care across over 100 homes, building a supportive and inspiring environment where employees feel valued and empowered every day.

Shift
: 7.30 am – 7.30 pm to cover annual leave and sickness when required, including weekend shifts.

Your focus as Kitchen Assistant is to 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.

• Understand principles of safe food handling to ensure all food preparations meet the highest hygiene standards.
• Contribute fully to team working, respond positively to colleagues, and act on all reasonable work instructions promptly.
• Advise on the supply and quality of items used to carry out tasks, ensuring the timely and appropriate ordering of replacement goods.
• Act respect towards residents and their visitors, respecting the dignity and individuality of each resident.

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

• A DBS Disclosure check (cost covered by Avery Healthcare).
• Proof of eligibility to work in the UK.

This advert may be withdrawn prior to the advertised deadline depending on the volume of applications received and business needs.

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

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 to check for any previous criminal convictions.