Description
We are seeking a warm, enthusiastic, and dedicated individual to join our award-winning team as a Kitchen Assistant at Elstree View Care Home in Borehamwood, Hertfordshire.
As a Kitchen Assistant, you will 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.
Key responsibilities include:
- 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 teamwork, 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 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 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 aptitude to teamwork.
- Exhibit a caring and understanding attitude towards residents.
The 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.
The salary for this position is £12.75 per hour, and the contract is bank-based with flexible working patterns.