Kitchen Assistant - Bank, Fleet

Your focus as Kitchen Assistant is to support the catering function in food preparation and maintain a clean environment for 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 are at 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 towards residents and visitors with respect for the dignity and individuality of each resident.

To be successful in this role 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, 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 a positive and flexible aptitude to team working.
• Exhibit a caring and understanding attitude towards residents.

• Basic Food Hygiene Certificate.
• Knowledge of Health and Safety, including Moving and Handling, Fire Safety and COSHH.
• High personal hygiene standards.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and will require a Disclosure and Barring Service check. A DBS Disclosure check will be made at the expense of Avery Healthcare. Proof of eligibility to work in the UK is also required.

This advert may be withdrawn prior to the advertised deadline depending on the volume of applications received and business needs.