Kitchen Assistant

Akari Care Limited

The closing date is 15 February 2025

Job summary

Akari Care is seeking a passionate Kitchen Assistant to join their team in South Gosforth. This is a permanent role within an award-winning care home, where the successful candidate will play a vital role in ensuring the smooth and efficient running of the kitchen, while providing personalized care and support to the residents.

Main duties of the job

As a Kitchen Assistant at Akari Care, you will be responsible for a range of duties, including creating menus, plating up, arranging trollies, and ensuring each resident's individual needs are met. You will work closely with the Cook and the wider catering team to maintain high standards of food preparation and service, while being mindful of the residents' cultural and religious backgrounds. The key focus is ensuring mealtimes are an enjoyable experience for all residents, where their individual needs are catered for.

About us

Akari Care is an award-winning provider of residential care for the elderly, committed to creating an environment where residents are valued, respected, and offered personalized care. The organization is dedicated to upholding its core values and ensuring all new colleagues embrace and actively promote these values across the organization.

Date posted

17 December 2024

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

Depending on experience Salary expectations will be discussed at interview stage.

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

1176143400

Job locations

Akari Care

South Gosforth

NE3 1SY


Job description

Job responsibilities

Package Description:

If you are passionate about caring for the elderly and want to build a long-term career in one of our award-winning homes, then look no further than Akari Care. Our aim is to create an environment where our residents are valued, respected, and are offered the personalised care they deserve.

Akari Care is committed to upholding values that we created and share. It is, therefore, vitally important that any new colleague embraces and actively promotes our values across the organisation.

We now seek an additional Kitchen / Catering Assistant who is passionate about, and thrives on, making a real and positive difference to the lives of older people.

Working in collaboration and unison with the Cook and the wider catering team you will be responsible for ensuring the smooth, efficient running of all kitchen processes. These will include creating menus, plating up, arranging trollies, and ensuring each of our residents feel directly supported and looked after with the highest quality of support and care.

Whilst you will be involved in all the practical duties you would expect in a busy care home kitchen it is vitally important to continuously ensure that you are mindful and conscious to individual religious and cultural backgrounds and how this might impact on meal choices, alongside making sure that all our residents feel they have a personalised service.

As the critical link between the kitchen and the serving areas you will be conjointly responsible for caring for our residents. The key focus for us is ensuring mealtimes run smoothly and are an enjoyable experience at Akari Care, where all of our residents individual needs are catered for.

By showing us you can match our values with the right desire for personal excellence, community spirit and a kind, caring and compassionate nature, we, in return, can offer you a career developing your knowledge, skills and abilities to support vulnerable adults with the care their individual needs require.

Whats in it for you:

  • A competitive salary

  • Pension contribution of 5%

  • Recognition schemes and rewarding referral schemes

  • Uniform provided and DBS check costs paid

  • 28 days annual leave (based on full-time hours, including Bank Holidays)

  • Flexible working patterns

  • Fully funded training and development

  • Support with personal development plans

  • The opportunity to grow and develop both personally and professionally

  • An engaging community environment where everyone is respected and included

What we require from you:

  • Experience of working within similar environment

  • Kitchen and food preparation experience required

  • Basic Food Hygiene Certificate

  • A caring nature to give everyone a personal approach

  • Flexible and adaptable to changes at short notice

  • Work well under pressure without negative impact to those around you

  • Warm, approachable, and engaging persona

  • Respect everyone, treating others as you would expect to be treated

  • Resilient and adaptable to differing needs of colleagues and residents

AKSPO

Job description

Job responsibilities

Package Description:

If you are passionate about caring for the elderly and want to build a long-term career in one of our award-winning homes, then look no further than Akari Care. Our aim is to create an environment where our residents are valued, respected, and are offered the personalised care they deserve.

Akari Care is committed to upholding values that we created and share. It is, therefore, vitally important that any new colleague embraces and actively promotes our values across the organisation.

We now seek an additional Kitchen / Catering Assistant who is passionate about, and thrives on, making a real and positive difference to the lives of older people.

Working in collaboration and unison with the Cook and the wider catering team you will be responsible for ensuring the smooth, efficient running of all kitchen processes. These will include creating menus, plating up, arranging trollies, and ensuring each of our residents feel directly supported and looked after with the highest quality of support and care.

Whilst you will be involved in all the practical duties you would expect in a busy care home kitchen it is vitally important to continuously ensure that you are mindful and conscious to individual religious and cultural backgrounds and how this might impact on meal choices, alongside making sure that all our residents feel they have a personalised service.

As the critical link between the kitchen and the serving areas you will be conjointly responsible for caring for our residents. The key focus for us is ensuring mealtimes run smoothly and are an enjoyable experience at Akari Care, where all of our residents individual needs are catered for.

By showing us you can match our values with the right desire for personal excellence, community spirit and a kind, caring and compassionate nature, we, in return, can offer you a career developing your knowledge, skills and abilities to support vulnerable adults with the care their individual needs require.

Whats in it for you:

  • A competitive salary

  • Pension contribution of 5%

  • Recognition schemes and rewarding referral schemes

  • Uniform provided and DBS check costs paid

  • 28 days annual leave (based on full-time hours, including Bank Holidays)

  • Flexible working patterns

  • Fully funded training and development

  • Support with personal development plans

  • The opportunity to grow and develop both personally and professionally

  • An engaging community environment where everyone is respected and included

What we require from you:

  • Experience of working within similar environment

  • Kitchen and food preparation experience required

  • Basic Food Hygiene Certificate

  • A caring nature to give everyone a personal approach

  • Flexible and adaptable to changes at short notice

  • Work well under pressure without negative impact to those around you

  • Warm, approachable, and engaging persona

  • Respect everyone, treating others as you would expect to be treated

  • Resilient and adaptable to differing needs of colleagues and residents

AKSPO

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • You will need to have experience working in a similar environment, kitchen and food preparation experience, and a Basic Food Hygiene Certificate. Additionally, you should possess a caring nature, be flexible and adaptable, and work well under pressure without negatively impacting those around you.
Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • You will need to have experience working in a similar environment, kitchen and food preparation experience, and a Basic Food Hygiene Certificate. Additionally, you should possess a caring nature, be flexible and adaptable, and work well under pressure without negatively impacting those around you.

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

Akari Care Limited

Address

Akari Care

South Gosforth

NE3 1SY


Employer's website

https://www.akaricare.co.uk (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Akari Care Limited

Address

Akari Care

South Gosforth

NE3 1SY


Employer's website

https://www.akaricare.co.uk (Opens in a new tab)

For questions about the job, contact:

Recruitment Team

Akari Care

recruitment@akaricare.co.uk

Date posted

17 December 2024

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

Depending on experience Salary expectations will be discussed at interview stage.

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

1176143400

Job locations

Akari Care

South Gosforth

NE3 1SY


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