Kitchen Assistant - Bank

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 is 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.  

ABOUT YOU  

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 demonstrates high standards of personal hygiene. 
• Have the 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. 

ABOUT AVERY  

Please note this role will require: 

• A DBS Disclosure check, the cost of which will be met by Avery Healthcare. 
• Proof of eligibility to work in the UK.