This role as a Kitchen Assistant at Avery Healthcare in Northampton offers the opportunity to be part of an award-winning team and make a positive impact on residents' lives every day.
The role involves supporting 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.
Overview
Kitchen Assistant responsibilities include supporting the catering function in food preparation and maintaining a clean environment to ensure protected production of beverages and meals, delivering a high-quality service to residents.
You will understand the principles of safe food handling and contribute to team working, while acting with respect and compassion towards residents.
About the role
Support the catering function in food preparation and maintain a clean environment for safe production of beverages and meals.
Ensure high standards of hygiene in all food preparations.
Contribute to team working and respond positively to colleagues; follow reasonable work instructions promptly.
Advise on supply and quality of items used to carry out tasks; ensure timely and appropriate ordering of replacement goods.
Act with respect for residents and their visitors, upholding the dignity and individuality of each resident.
About us
Avery Healthcare is one of the UK's largest providers of luxury elderly care homes.
They are passionate about creating meaningful experiences for residents and team members, offering exceptional care across a growing network of over 100 homes.
Avery is committed to building a supportive and inspiring environment where employees feel valued and empowered every day.
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 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 team working.
Exhibit a caring and understanding attitude towards the residents.
About Avery
At Avery, we are not just one of the UK's largest providers of luxury elderly care homes — we are a place where people love to work.
We believe the later years of life should be as enriching as any other, and we are passionate about creating meaningful experiences for our residents and our team.
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