Kitchen Assistant

The job involves working in collaboration with the Cook and other catering team members to ensure the smooth running of all kitchen processes in Akari Care homes. Responsibilities include creating menus, plating, arranging trollies, and ensuring residents receive high-quality care and support. It is essential to be mindful of individual religious and cultural backgrounds in meal choices to offer personalized service. The position requires practical kitchen duties, maintaining smooth mealtime experiences, and matching Akari's values of personal excellence, community spirit, kindness, and compassion.

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 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.

Akari Care is committed to creating an environment where elderly residents are valued, respected, and receive personalized care. As part of its mission, the organization upholds and promotes core values across its operations. Akari Care focuses on providing compassionate care that facilitates a positive impact on the lives of older residents. By joining Akari Care, employees have opportunities for career development, skill enhancement, and supporting vulnerable adults to meet their individual needs within a respectful and inclusive community setting.

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