About this role
Job summary ABOUT THE ROLE This 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 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
Main duties of the job As a Bank Kitchen Assistant at a Barchester care home, you will play a key role in helping to provide first-class food and hospitality to our residents. This casual, part-time role offers the flexibility to cover both planned and unplanned absences, such as annual leave or sick leave. The position allows you to support the kitchen by helping to produce nutritious meals that contribute significantly to the wellbeing of residents. You will become an asset to your colleagues, with opportunities to enhance the hospitality experience of residents while forging relationships with them. Your role is crucial to the smooth operation of the care home and relies on maintaining high standards during food preparation. Being reliable, considerate, and flexible with work patterns is essential, although formal qualifications aren't necessary. Experience in a commercial or care setting would be beneficial, but the key is a commitment to quality service and resident care.
About us Barchester Healthcare is one of the UK's leading healthcare providers, with a focus on providing top-notch care and support in all its locations. The organisation places a high priority on the quality of food and hospitality, understanding the impact it has on residents' wellbeing. This is demonstrated by their annual Barchester Hospitality Awards, which strive to recognise outstanding service within their care homes. They offer competitive pay and numerous opportunities for learning and development. While this role is for a Bank Kitchen Assistant, employees may have the opportunity to transition to permanent positions based on their performance. Barchester values staff who show dedication, flexibility, and an ability to enhance the life's quality of their residents through exceptional service and care.
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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
No formal qualifications are necessary, although 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
Oxted
RH8 9BD
Employer's website https://www.barchester.com/ (Opens in a new tab)