Kitchen Assistant

Akari Care is seeking a passionate and caring Kitchen Assistant to join their team in Strood. This is a permanent position, offering a competitive salary of £12.76 per hour. The successful candidate will play a vital role in ensuring the smooth and efficient running of the care home's kitchen, providing high-quality meals and personalized care to the residents. As a Kitchen Assistant at Akari Care, you will be responsible for a variety of tasks, including menu creation, food preparation, plating, and ensuring that all kitchen processes run smoothly. You will work closely with the Cook and the wider catering team to provide a personalized and enjoyable dining experience for the residents. It is essential that you are mindful of individual religious and cultural backgrounds, and can cater to the diverse needs of the residents. The key focus will be on ensuring that mealtimes are a positive and enjoyable experience for all. By demonstrating your alignment with Akari Care's values, as well as your desire for personal excellence, community spirit, and a caring nature, you will have the opportunity to develop your skills and knowledge in supporting vulnerable adults. Akari Care is an award-winning provider of care homes, committed to creating an environment where residents are valued, respected, and offered the personalized care they deserve. The organization is dedicated to upholding its core values and ensuring that all new colleagues embrace and actively promote these values across the organization. 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. What is in it for you: A competitive salary Pension contribution of 5% Recognition schemes and rewarding referral schemes. Uniform provided and DBS check costs paid. 28 days annual leave (based on full-time hours, including Bank Holidays) Flexible working patterns Fully funded training and development Support with personal development plans. The opportunity to gain experience and develop both personally and professionally. An engaging community environment where everyone is respected and included What we require from you: Experience of working within similar environment Kitchen and food preparation experience required. Basic Food Hygiene Certificate A caring nature to give everyone a personal approach. Flexible and adaptable to changes at short notice. Work well under pressure without negative impact to those around you. Warm, approachable, and engaging persona Respect everyone, treating others as you would expect to be treated. Resilient and adaptable to differing needs of colleagues and residents. 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.