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 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.
Main duties of the job This role is designed for those seeking casual, flexible part-time work. As a Bank Kitchen Assistant at Barchester care homes, your primary role will be ensuring that residents receive first-class food and hospitality, which is a key component of the all-around care we offer. The emphasis is on maintaining a healthy and nutritious diet, crucial for the residents' overall well-being and enjoyment of life. Your responsibilities will involve covering for planned and unplanned absences, helping to prepare meals, and setting a fulfilling dining experience for each resident. Your role extends beyond kitchen duties, offering you opportunities to interact with residents and enhance their overall hospitality experience. Joining this team, you will be pivotal to the care home's success. We seek individuals committed to maintaining superior kitchen and food preparation standards. Reliability, consideration, and a caring nature, along with work pattern flexibility, are essential. While formal qualifications aren't mandatory, relevant experience in either commercial or care settings is beneficial. The role offers competitive pay, flexibility, and abundant learning opportunities. Barchester, a leading UK healthcare provider, takes pride in its catering services, highlighted by an annual hospitality award. This role may also lead to a permanent position.
About us Barchester Healthcare is one of the prominent UK healthcare providers, recognized for offering top-quality care and services across the nation. With a dedicated team that prides itself on delivering exceptional care and hospitality, Barchester aims to ensure all residents receive the highest possible standard of living and care. The organization values its catering services highly, reflecting their belief in the significant role that food and nutrition play in improving the quality of care. They organize an annual hospitality awards event, highlighting their commitment to excellence in catering within their facilities. This commitment extends to their workforce as well, offering them flexibility, competitive compensation, and opportunities for professional development through various learning platforms. For Barchester, the focus is on comprehensive care that emphasizes both the physical and social well-being of its residents, facilitated by teams dedicated to upholding these values consistently.
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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.
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Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
Formal qualifications are not necessary, although experience in a similar role in either a commercial or care setting would be beneficial.
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
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.barchester.com/ (Opens in a new tab)