Kitchen Assistant - Bank - Care Home

Job summary

ABOUT THE ROLEThis is a casual, part-time role offering flexible working. As a Bank Kitchen Assistant at a Barchester care home, you'll help to provide the first-class food and hospitality that enable us to give our residents exceptional all-round care and support.

A healthy, nutritious diet is vital to ensuring our residents' wellbeing and helping them enjoy daily life with us, which is why the role of Bank Kitchen Assistant is so important. Providing cover for any planned or unplanned absences, you'll help to produce meals and create a fulfilling dining experience for every resident.

You'll be an asset to your colleagues and your impact will reach beyond the kitchen too. There'll be plenty of opportunities for you to get to know our residents and enhance their hospitality experience. ABOUT YOUWhen you join us as a Bank Kitchen Assistant, you'll play a crucial role in the success of your care home.

That's why we're looking for someone who's committed to maintaining the highest standards in the kitchen and during the food preparation process. You should be reliable, considerate and caring in your approach, and flexible when it comes to your work patterns.

Main duties of the job As a Bank Kitchen Assistant at Barchester Healthcare, you will play a crucial part in providing first-class food and hospitality, essential to deliver exceptional care and support to residents.

This temporary role offers flexible, part-time hours, where you support in producing meals and enhancing the hospitality experience for residents, particularly during planned or unplanned staff absences. You will be key in maintaining high kitchen standards and ensuring a nutritious diet for residents' wellbeing.

Attributes such as reliability, consideration, compassion, and flexibility in work patterns are desirable. This role may also lead to a permanent position along with numerous free learning opportunities.

About us

Barchester Healthcare is renowned for being one of the UK's leading healthcare providers, focusing on delivering excellent care and support in their care homes. A position with Barchester offers flexibility, competitive pay, and countless development opportunities.

They recognize the value of high-standard catering provided to residents, even facilitating annual hospitality awards to acknowledge exceptional service.

The organisation is dedicated to ensuring that the quality of care provided meets the high standards one would expect for their own loved ones, making it a rewarding and enriching place to work.

Job description

Job

responsibilities

ABOUT

THE ROLE

This is a casual, part-time role offering flexible working. As a Bank Kitchen Assistant at a Barchester care home, you'll help to provide the first-class food and hospitality that enable us to give our residents exceptional all-round care and support.

A healthy, nutritious diet is vital to ensuring our residents' wellbeing and helping them enjoy daily life with us, which is why the role of Bank Kitchen Assistant is so important. Providing cover for any planned or unplanned absences, you'll help to produce meals and create a fulfilling dining experience for every resident.

You'll be an asset to your colleagues and your impact will reach beyond the kitchen too. There'll be plenty of opportunities for you to get to know our residents and enhance their hospitality experience.

ABOUT YOU

When you join us as a Bank Kitchen Assistant, you'll play a crucial role in the success of your care home. That's why we're looking for someone who's committed to maintaining the highest standards in the kitchen and during the food preparation process.

You should be reliable, considerate and caring in your approach, and flexible when it comes to your work patterns. Formal qualifications aren't necessary, although any similar experience gained in a commercial or care setting would be useful.

REWARDS PACKAGE As well as competitive pay, you can look forward to a role that offers true flexibility and plenty of free learning and development opportunities. As one of the UK's leading healthcare providers, we take catering seriously and even run a fiercely-contested annual Barchester Hospitality Awards.

If you do well in this role it could lead to a permanent one. As this is a Bank position to provide cover as and when we need it, such as for annual leave or sick leave, the hours and days you work will vary.

If you'd like to use your attention to detail and people skills in an organisation that provides the quality care you'd expect for your loved ones, this is a rewarding place to be.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential No formal qualifications are required, but previous experience in a similar commercial or care setting is beneficial.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.