Kitchen Assistant

Base Pay Range

Package Description

Shift details: 2 shifts of 10 hours per week, every other weekend

Avery Healthcare is dedicated to supporting the people who care for our residents. We celebrate and support our teams throughout their careers, fostering a culture of respect, compassion, and exceptional care. We are now looking for a warm, enthusiastic, and dedicated Kitchen Assistant to join our award‑winning team. If this sounds like the place for you, we’d love to hear from you!

Your focus as Kitchen Assistant is to support the catering function in food preparation and to maintain 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 meet 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 aptitude for 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.

• 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.