Kitchen Assistant - BANK

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 processes include creating menus, plating up, arranging trollies, and ensuring each of our residents feels directly supported and looked after with the highest quality of support and care. You are expected to be mindful of individual religious and cultural backgrounds and how this might impact meal choices, while ensuring residents receive personalized service. As the critical link between the kitchen and serving areas, you will be conjointly responsible for caring for our residents. Successful candidates must match the values of Akari Care with personal excellence, community spirit, and a kind, caring and compassionate nature.

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's mission is to deliver personalized care for the elderly in their award-winning homes. Creating an environment where every resident is valued and respected and received the individualized care they deserve is paramount to Akari Care. The organization upholds specific values and expects every new colleague to not only embrace but actively promote these values across the organization. Residents are at the heart of everything at Akari Care, and employees work collaboratively to ensure a supportive, personalized experience for all residents. The company invests in training and development opportunities, aiming to cultivate a work environment where both personal and professional growth is encouraged.

Qualifications

Essential: - Experience in a similar environment, Kitchen and food preparation experience, Basic Food Hygiene Certificate, A caring nature.