Company: Hawthorns Retirement
Location: Clevedon, North Somerset, BS21, United Kingdom
Job Type: Permanent
Up to £11.45 per hour depending on experience
Job Description
Package Description:
At The Hawthorns, we believe in supporting those who support our residents; we recognize and celebrate our hard-working colleagues, champion your career development, offer a range of apprenticeships, and provide access to a variety of leisure and retail discounts.
We are now seeking a compassionate, enthusiastic, and dedicated individual to join our friendly, award-winning team as a Kitchen Assistant.
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 are 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 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 team working.
* Exhibit a caring and understanding attitude towards the residents.
ABOUT THE HAWTHORNS
The Hawthorns is a unique retirement model that offers retirement properties to rent for couples or individuals who seek a rich, independent lifestyle, at beautiful locations across the country. The Hawthorns retirement villages are vibrant and companionable places; we eat together, we have fun together, and we live together. Our vision of ‘creating meaningful lives together’ is reached by the exceptional service and experience we proudly offer throughout our portfolio of four luxurious retirement homes whilst establishing ourselves as the preferred choice for residents and employees.
Please note this role will require:
* A DBS Disclosure check, the cost of which will be met by the business.
* Proof of eligibility to work in the UK.
This advert may be withdrawn prior to the advertised deadline depending on the volume of applications received and business needs.
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