Kitchen Assistant

Working as a Kitchen Assistant at Akari Care, you will have the opportunity to build a long-term career in an award-winning environment. Our mission is to ensure that residents feel valued, respected, and receive personalized care. In this role, you will collaborate closely with the Cook and the catering team to ensure that the kitchen runs smoothly and efficiently. You will be involved in menu creation, plating, arranging trollies, and supporting residents with high-quality care. It is essential to be sensitive to individual religious and cultural dietary needs, ensuring that each resident receives personalized service. You are the critical link between the kitchen and serving areas, and you will help ensure mealtimes are smooth and enjoyable. Join us in upholding our values of personal excellence, community spirit, kindness, and compassion, and in return, you will receive opportunities for career development and skills enhancement to support vulnerable adults.

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 dedicated to providing exceptional care to the elderly within their award-winning homes. Our organizational values emphasize creating an environment where residents feel valued, respected, and receive personalized care tailored to their needs. At Akari Care, we prioritize hiring team members who embody and promote these values, ensuring high standards across the organization. As part of Akari Care, you will collaborate with a team committed to making a tangible positive impact on the lives of older adults. We offer the opportunity for career growth and skill development, recognizing contributions through competitive salaries and supportive work culture. Employees benefit from flexible work patterns and a focus on personal development plans within a respectful and inclusive community. Uniforms and training are provided, along with a range of benefits aimed at fostering a rewarding and fulfilling work experience within our community-focused care homes.

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