This is a temporary role as a Kitchen Assistant at Avery Healthcare in Bexleyheath. The focus of the role 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.
Main duties of the job
As a Kitchen Assistant, you will be responsible for understanding the principles of safe food handling, contributing to team working, advising on supply and quality of items, and acting with compassion and respect towards residents. The ideal candidate will have a Basic Food Hygiene Certificate, knowledge of health and safety, and a positive and flexible attitude to team working.
Job responsibilities
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 is 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.
Additional requirements
Please note this 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.
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.
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