Kitchen Assistant
Job Description
Job summary
This is a permanent role as a Kitchen Assistant at Akari Care in Gateshead. The role involves supporting the smooth and efficient running of the care home kitchen, including menu creation, plating up, and ensuring a personalized service for residents.
Main duties of the job
The Kitchen Assistant will work closely with the Cook and catering team to ensure the kitchen processes run smoothly. This includes creating menus, plating up, arranging trolleys, and providing a personalized service to residents, considering their individual religious and cultural needs. The role is critical in connecting the kitchen to the serving areas and ensuring mealtimes are an enjoyable experience for residents.
About us
Akari Care is an award-winning care home provider committed to creating an environment where residents are valued, respected, and offered personalized care. The organization is seeking a Kitchen Assistant who shares their values and is passionate about making a positive difference in the lives of older people.
Job responsibilities
Package Description:
** 30 Hours per week - Includes alternate weekends**
If you are passionate about caring for the elderly and want to build a long-term career in one of our award-winning homes, then look no further than Akari Care. Our aim is to create an environment where our residents are valued, respected, and are offered the personalised care they deserve.
Akari Care is committed to upholding values that we created and share. It is, therefore, vitally important that any new colleague embraces and actively promotes our values across the organisation.
We now seek an additional Kitchen / Catering Assistant who is passionate about, and thrives on, making a real and positive difference to the lives of older people.
Working in collaboration and unison with the Cook and the wider catering team you will be responsible for ensuring the smooth, efficient running of all kitchen processes. These will include creating menus, plating up, arranging trollies, and ensuring each of our residents feel directly supported and looked after with the highest quality of support and care.
Whilst you will be involved in all the practical duties you would expect in a busy care home kitchen it is vitally important to continuously ensure that you are mindful and conscious to individual religious and cultural backgrounds and how this might impact on meal choices, alongside making sure that all our residents feel they have a personalised service.
As the critical link between the kitchen and the serving areas you will be conjointly responsible for caring for our residents. The key focus for us is ensuring mealtimes run smoothly and are an enjoyable experience at Akari Care, where all of our residents individual needs are catered for.
By showing us you can match our values with the right desire for personal excellence, community spirit and a kind, caring and compassionate nature, we, in return, can offer you a career developing your knowledge, skills and abilities to support vulnerable adults with the care their individual needs require.
Whats in it for you:
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A competitive salary
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Pension contribution of 5%
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Recognition schemes and rewarding referral schemes
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Uniform provided and DBS check costs paid
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28 days annual leave (based on full-time hours, including Bank Holidays)
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Flexible working patterns
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Fully funded training and development
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Support with personal development plans
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The opportunity to grow and develop both personally and professionally
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An engaging community environment where everyone is respected and included
What we require from you:
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Experience of working within similar environment
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Kitchen and food preparation experience required
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Basic Food Hygiene Certificate
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A caring nature to give everyone a personal approach
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Flexible and adaptable to changes at short notice
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Work well under pressure without negative impact to those around you
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Warm, approachable, and engaging persona
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Respect everyone, treating others as you would expect to be treated
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Resilient and adaptable to differing needs of colleagues and residents
AKSPO
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- The ideal candidate will have experience working in a similar environment, kitchen and food preparation experience, and a basic food hygiene certificate. They should also have a caring nature, be flexible and adaptable, and have a warm and engaging persona.
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.
Employer details
Employer name
Akari Care Limited
Address
Akari Care
Gateshead
NE9 6RL
