Kitchen Assistant

Working 23 hours across five days, you can join the catering team at Gregory House as a Kitchen Assistant where unlike most kitchen environments, you will not be under heavy pressure and stress.  

Reporting to the Head Chef, you will support with preparing meals, maintaining a clean and safe working environment, and assist with deliveries. 

It’s a calm and pleasurable working environment, where you’ll be able to manage your workload and develop your career. There’s also a great social aspect to this role where you can interact with people outside the kitchen regularly. 

As a Kitchen Assistant, you will be:

• Serving service users, staff and visitors with food and beverages
• Maintaining storage procedures and stock rotation
• Ensuring that all areas, equipment and furniture are cleaned and stored correctly
• Responsible for the departments cleaning chemicals and equipment

To be successful in this role, you'll need:

• Knowledge of COSHH and HACCP
• Experience of working within similar role

Location: Furness Road, Workington, Cumbria, CA14 3PD 

You will be working at Gregory House, a 24 bed service for adults with mild and moderate-to-severe Learning Disability/Autism with Mental Health needs, providing care and support to allow people to be as independent as possible with the long-term aim of people moving onto a more independent living setting. 

Working as part of a team, you will provide an enhanced level of support to allow people with continuing challenging behaviour and high support needs to be cared for in the least restrictive setting possible, but within a service which is robust and structured enough to meet their ongoing needs and risks. 

You will help people lead good and meaningful everyday lives, where they have choice and control, accessing mainstream services and facilities, engaging in work and training, in leisure opportunities, hobbies and areas of personal interest.

What you will get:

• Annual salary of £25,058 (Pro Rata)
  
• The equivalent of 33 days annual leave (Pro rata) inc. Bank Holidays – plus your birthday off!
  
• Free meals and parking
• Wellbeing support and activities to help you maintain a great work-life balance
  
• Career development and training to help you achieve your career goals
  
• Pension contribution to secure your future
  
• Life Assurance for added peace of mind
  
• Enhanced Maternity Package so you can truly enjoy this special time

About your next employer:

You will be working for an established, stable and agile company with over 8,000 employees and a unique approach to the delivery of care. With a network of over 90 services across England and Wales covering Mental Health, Neurological, Learning Disabilities & Autism, Children & Education, there is opportunity for you to grow and move. 

Elysium Healthcare is part of Ramsay Health Care with a global network that extends across 10 countries and employs over 86,000 people globally. 

Elysium Healthcare follows safer recruitment of staff for all appointments and is a Disability Confident employer, committed to inclusive and accessible recruitment. It is a requirement that all staff understand it is each person’s individual responsibility to promote and safeguard the welfare of service users. All candidates will be subject to a DBS disclosure.