About this role
Job summary Barchester Healthcare is currently seeking a temporary Bank Kitchen Assistant for their care home in Northallerton. This position offers a competitive pay rate of £13.21 per hour and the opportunity to play a significant role in providing high-quality food and hospitality to residents. As a key member of the kitchen team, you will be responsible for preparing meals and enhancing the dining experience of residents. The role offers flexibility with varying hours and days, providing cover for planned or unplanned absences. Successful performance in this role could potentially lead to a permanent position.
Main duties of the job The role of a Bank Kitchen Assistant at a Barchester care home involves supporting the provision of first-class food and hospitality, essential for exceptional resident care and support. The position requires preparing meals and ensuring a fulfilling dining experience for residents, covering both planned and unplanned absences. Applicants should be reliable, considerate, and flexible, committed to maintaining high standards in the kitchen and during food preparation. While formal qualifications are not required, experience in a similar setting is beneficial. The role offers competitive pay, flexibility, and opportunities for learning and development.
About us Barchester Healthcare is a leading healthcare provider in the UK, offering high-quality care in various settings, including care homes. As part of their commitment to excellence, Barchester takes catering seriously, reflecting the importance of nutrition in resident well-being. The organisation offers its staff competitive pay and provides numerous opportunities for career development and growth. Through the Barchester Hospitality Awards, the company fosters a culture of recognition and reward, ensuring that successful employees have the potential to progress to permanent positions. Barchester is dedicated to providing quality care to its residents.
Job description Job responsibilities
ABOUT THE ROLEAs a Bank Kitchen Assistant at a Barchester care home, you'll help to provide the first-class food and hospitality that enable us to give our residents exceptional all-round care and support. A healthy, nutritious diet is vital to ensuring our residents' wellbeing and helping them enjoy daily life with us, which is why the role of Bank Kitchen Assistant is so important. Providing cover for any planned or unplanned absences, you'll help to produce meals and create a fulfilling dining experience for every resident. You'll be an asset to your colleagues and your impact will reach beyond the kitchen too. There'll be plenty of opportunities for you to get to know our residents and enhance their hospitality experience.
ABOUT YOUWhen you join us as a Bank Kitchen Assistant, you'll play a crucial role in the success of your care home. That's why we're looking for someone who's committed to maintaining the highest standards in the kitchen and during the food preparation process. You should be reliable, considerate and caring in your approach, and flexible when it comes to your work patterns. Formal qualifications aren't necessary, although any similar experience gained in a commercial or care setting would be useful.
REWARDS PACKAGEAs well as competitive pay, you can look forward to a role that offers true flexibility and plenty of free learning and development opportunities. As one of the UK's leading healthcare providers, we take catering seriously and even run a fiercely-contested annual Barchester Hospitality Awards. If you do well in this role it could lead to a permanent one.
As this is a Bank position to provide cover as and when we need it, such as for annual leave or sick leave, the hours and days you work will vary.
If you'd like to use your attention to detail and people skills in an organisation that provides the quality care you'd expect for your loved ones, this is a rewarding place to be.
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
Formal qualifications are not necessary for this role, although any similar experience gained in a commercial or care setting would be useful. Applicants should be reliable, considerate, and caring, with a commitment to maintaining the highest standards in the kitchen and during the food preparation process.
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 Barchester Healthcare
Address Barchester Healthcare
Northallerton
DL7 8UE
Employer's website https://www.barchester.com/ (Opens in a new tab)