About this role
Job summary As a Bank Kitchen Assistant at a Barchester care home, you will play an essential role in providing excellent food and hospitality services to support the well-being and daily enjoyment of residents. This casual, part-time position is highly flexible, designed to cover planned or unplanned absences. Your role will involve assisting in the meal preparation and ensuring a fulfilling dining experience for residents. A commitment to high kitchen standards and a reliable, caring approach are crucial. While formal qualifications aren't essential, prior experience in a similar setting can be beneficial. Opportunities for learning and professional development are available, and exemplary performance may lead to a permanent role.
Main duties of the job ABOUT THE ROLE: This is a casual, part-time role offering flexible working hours. As 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. ABOUT YOU: When you join us as a Bank Kitchen Assistant, you'll play a crucial role in the success of your care home. We're looking for someone committed to maintaining the highest standards in the kitchen and during the food preparation process. Formal qualifications aren't necessary, although any similar experience gained in a commercial or care setting would be useful.
About us Barchester Healthcare is one of the UK's leading healthcare providers, committed to delivering the quality care you'd expect for your loved ones. Catering is taken seriously within the organization, as evidenced by the fiercely-contested annual Barchester Hospitality Awards. The company offers competitive pay along with a flexible work environment and numerous opportunities for free learning and development. These programs ensure that employees continue to grow in their roles and reach their professional aspirations. Barchester values its kitchen staff as crucial to their mission of providing exceptional care and support to residents, making this a rewarding place of employment.
Job description Job responsibilities
ABOUT THE ROLEThis is a casual, part-time role offering flexible working. As 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
While formal qualifications are not required, having similar experience in a commercial or care setting would be useful.
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
Maidstone
ME17 3LW
Employer's website https://www.barchester.com/ (Opens in a new tab)