About this role
Job summary ABOUT THE ROLE 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 YOU When 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 rela
Main duties of the job As a Bank Kitchen Assistant at Barchester care home, your role involves providing first-class food and hospitality, which is crucial in delivering exceptional care and support to residents. You'll cover planned or unplanned absences, aiding in meal production to create fulfilling dining experiences. Getting to know residents to enhance their hospitality experience is encouraged. Skills essential to the role include reliability, consideration, and a caring approach. Flexibility with work patterns is necessary, although formal qualifications aren't required; experience in a similar commercial or care setting is beneficial. Barchester offers competitive pay, flexibility, free learning, development opportunities, and the chance to take part in their annual Hospitality Awards. Success in this role may lead to permanent employment opportunities.
About us Barchester Healthcare is one of the UK's leading healthcare providers, specializing in delivering quality care and hospitality services within care homes and hospitals. Their mission is to provide exceptional care ensuring residents lead purpose-driven lives full of moments to cherish. They boast a team dedicated to nurturing a warm, supportive environment, ensuring dietary and nutritional needs are met, and assuring overall well-being. The company values continuous learning and development for their team members, reflected in their various training programs and internal competitions like the annual Barchester Hospitality Awards. Barchester values flexibility and innovation, thereby advocating a rewarding career environment.
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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; however, 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
Denmead
PO7 6XP
Employer's website https://www.barchester.com/ (Opens in a new tab)