Kitchen Assistant

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At Avery Healthcare, we support the people who care for our residents. We celebrate and support our teams every step of the way and aim to help you grow in a caring, supportive environment.

As a Kitchen Assistant you will make a positive impact on residents’ lives each day, delivering high‑quality food and maintaining a clean, safe environment.

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.

• 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 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, including 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 towards team working.
• Exhibit a caring and understanding attitude towards the residents.

At Avery we are one of the UK’s largest providers of luxury elderly care homes. We believe the later years of life should be as enriching as any other and we are passionate about creating meaningful experiences for our residents and team alike.

• A DBS Disclosure check, the cost of which will be met 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This advert may be withdrawn prior to the advertised deadline depending on the volume of applications received and business needs.