Kitchen Assistant

We Care Group

We Care Group are a family owned company. Founded on the tradition of healthcare excellence, we bring a combination of the highest quality health care services and experienced, compassionate and dedicated staff to all of our nursing and care homes

We offer a warm, supportive and uplifting environment, where our residents are able to maintain their own individuality and feel at home. We take pride in being both small enough to care and large enough to be able to care. After all, we believe in ‘caring for our loved ones, like they cared for us!’

Job Overview

As a Kitchen Assistant you’ll prepare, cook and serve good nutritional and satisfying meals for residents, including preferences, special diets and foods as needed. You need to do this in a timely manner.

Benefits

• Blue Light Card
• NVQ’s available (eligible for student discount card)
• Cover the cost of the DBS (£40)
• Uniform provided (company branded tunic x 2)
• Company Events (such as Care Awards)
• Buddy System (receive £200 upon your buddy successfully completing their probation period)
• Employee of the month (£100)
• On site parking

About The Role

Responsibilities and Duties of the Job

• Support the chef to deliver a varied and nutritional menu in line with dietary needs
• Adhering to completing all mandatory paperwork including: adhering to COSHH and company guidelines, policies and procedures
• Support the chef with ordering from preferred suppliers
• Regularly monitor stock control and to inform the Chef / Manager of any discrepancies.
• To ensure proper stock rotation of foodstuffs to minimise wastage, and to dispose of promptly any foodstuff found to be past "sell-by" dates for any reason.
• To help prepare beverages and food
• To maintain a high standard of hygiene and cleanliness in the kitchen and food storage areas at all times, in accordance with the appropriate Food Hygiene Regulations
• Ensuring deep cleaning of the kitchen is adhered to on a regular basis
• To assist in the monitoring and recording of refrigerator, chiller and freezer temperatures
• Actively participating in discussions, with the kitchen team, to improve the service
• Ensure all the dishes are washed, dried and put away promptly

Our Value-Based Personal Qualities

Working Together

• Involve our residents, family, external agencies & colleagues.
• Speak up when things go wrong.

Respect and Dignity

• Understand person-centered care and can demonstrate treating people as individuals and respecting choices.
• Promoting independence and encouraging appropriate risk-taking.

Everybody Counts

• Ensuring no one is discriminated against or excluded.
• Understand human rights and impact on care delivery.
• Facilitating people to ‘speak up’ about concerns and acting upon them.

Commitment to Quality of Care

• Striving for quality in everything we do recognising and understanding what quality in care means for people within our homes.
• Being accepting about criticism and focusing on improvement.
• Being open to new opportunities for learning and identifying the limits of skills and knowledge.

Compassion

• Treating people with kindness.
• Understanding the importance of empathy in all areas of employment.
• Understanding the values of others and always providing a caring service.

Improving Lives

• Focus on how things could be done better and sharing ideas.
• Understanding of wellbeing and what is important to our residents.
• Improving outcomes for people.
• Ensuring appropriate services are provided for our residents.

Please note that the duties and requirements in this job description may change as the needs of our services users and homes change. They may also change to align with future policies.

Required Criteria

• Right to live and work in the UK

Skills Needed

Exceptional Customer Service Skills, Chefing Skills, HACCP/Food Safety Management Skills

About The Company

We treat all of our residents as individuals. We care about their unique needs as well as their likes and dislikes, hobbies and past times. We make sure every one of our residents is provided with a completely personalised care plan; giving them dignity, choice and independence in a home from home environment.

Our reputation is built on more than 15 years of experience in care and we work hard to make sure that all of our homes provide a safe, homely and happy setting for residents – we want our homes to be their homes. This also means that all of our 30 homes are completely unique, designed to meet the individual needs of our residents and make the most of the home environment and its surroundings.

Each home has a dedicated team delivering round-the-clock care to meet the varying and often complex needs of our residents. We continually invest in our homes and this, as well as our rigorous quality and safety standards, enables us to ensure our homes meet our exceptionally high standards and deliver the best support and care to residents.

Company Culture

As a family run business, we treat our people like they deserve to be treated; with dignity, compassion and respect. The principles of equality and inclusion are at the heart of everything we do and we are committed to creating a workplace community where everyone is treated fairly and which is representative of the people that we support.

We work hard to create a caring and welcoming environment for our residents based on our core values of privacy, independence, dignity and choice. We do the same for our people; nurturing their talents and celebrating their uniqueness to create a diverse, inclusive workplace where there are opportunities for everyone to grow and thrive.

We want our people to be themselves; bringing their best self to work so that they can provide the best care. That’s why we have a dedicated training course in equality and inclusion for our teams and operate a fair and open recruitment process. We also offer competitive rates of pay, flexible working hours, free uniforms and a range of benefits.

And we want you to be part of our future, helping us to grow as a family and put our residents and team members at the heart of everything we do.

Company Benefits

We Care Group is a family of people passionate about delivering the very best care. As well as caring for our residents, we care for our teams.

We invest in their learning and development, support them in their career progression and put their health and wellbeing at the heart of our approach. And we want our people to love what they do. So in addition to ongoing training and support, we offer savings on everyday expenditure to all our home teams through the online platform, Staff Treats; the leading employee benefits and discounts provider in the UK.

Each month team members will have access to discounts at over 3,000 brands such as Vue, Apple, M&S, Zara and Starbucks plus savings in dining, movies, vacations, technology and groceries as well as e-vouchers and cashback.

All team members have the opportunity to receive monthly and annual performance-related bonuses and we also provide free uniform and DBS checks. But we don’t stop there. We think our people are the best at what they do and we celebrate this through our monthly recognition scheme and our annual celebratory recognition event.

Vacation, Paid time off, Retirement plan and/or pension, Flexible schedule, Employee development programs, Free parking, Referral bonus, Open office, Company retreats, Competitive salary, Long service recognition, Perks Card, Wellbeing Scheme, Shopping Cashback, Social Opportunities, Employee of the Month, Employee Recognition Scheme

Salary

£12.00 per hour