Kitchen Assistant

West Kirby, England, United Kingdom

12/9/2024

Job Description

Location: Riversdale Nursing Home, 14-16 Riversdale Road, West Kirby

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

• Quarterly Bonus (48p per hour)
• 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

• Developing healthy and balanced meals in consultation with residents and staff.
• Being aware of people’s religious and cultural backgrounds and how this might impact on their dietary requirements.
• To help prepare trollies for breakfast, lunch and dinner and to ensure that all trollies are collected promptly
• To help prepare meals under the direction of the cook
• To assist the head chef with the baking of cakes for afternoon tea if necessary
• To ensure that the kitchen cleaning rota is adhered to at all times and that the kitchen is hygienically clean and the floor mopped when necessary
• To load the dishwasher and/or wash-up by hand when required
• To ensure all washed items are clean and dry before putting them away
• To assist with the ordering of supplies if requested to do so
• To assist to put away any supplies delivered to the Home promptly
• Ensuring high standards of hygiene and cleanliness are maintained.
• Take responsibility for your own professional development through performance and development reviews and undertake any relevant training
• Seek opportunities for personal and professional growth
• Induct new starters in accordance with We Care Group policy.
• Be responsible for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of those individuals they support
• Ensure equipment supplied is used with care, in accordance with suppliers’ instructions and training.
• Ensure all equipment is in good working order and report any faults immediately. If any machine is felt to be dangerous, withdraw it from service immediately.
• The ability to treat people with dignity
• Good listening and observational skills
• Some awareness of the challenges faced by people who need care and support
  
  

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.

Skills Needed

Hospitality

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.

Desired Criteria

Required Criteria

• Right to live and work in the UK
  
  

Closing DateTuesday 31st December, 2024

Contract Typeparttime

Salary£12.00 Hourly