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.
Main duties of the job The role of Bank Kitchen Assistant at Barchester Healthcare is a casual and part-time position that offers flexible working hours. As a Bank Kitchen Assistant, your main responsibility will be to assist in providing first-class food and hospitality for residents in a care home setting, ensuring their overall well-being and enhancing their daily lives. You will provide cover for planned and unplanned absences, help produce meals, and contribute to creating a fulfilling dining experience for residents. This role requires you to be reliable, considerate, and caring, with a commitment to high standards in food preparation, although formal qualifications are not necessary. Experience in a similar setting is beneficial. Barchester Healthcare values its employees, offering competitive pay, learning and development opportunities, and potential for a permanent position. The role is flexible, with hours and days that vary based on the organization's needs, such as covering for annual or sick leave.
About us Barchester Healthcare is one of the UKs leading care providers, offering a range of services including residential care, nursing care, and dementia care across the country. The organization is committed to delivering quality care that matches the high standards expected for one's loved ones. Barchester believes that a nutritious diet is essential for the residents' well-being, thus paying special attention to food and hospitality services. Employees are an integral part of Barchester, with opportunities for career development and recognition through initiatives such as the Barchester Hospitality Awards. Flexible roles like Bank Kitchen Assistant are vital in ensuring consistent and exceptional care, allowing the organization to maintain its reputation for high-quality service. Barchester also invests in its staff by providing numerous learning and development opportunities and competitive compensation. If you are looking for a rewarding role within a respected care-focused organization, Barchester could be the right fit.
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
No formal qualifications are necessary. Similar experience gained 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
Salisbury
SP5 2EJ
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.barchester.com/ (Opens in a new tab)