Required:
- CIEH Basic Food Hygiene Certificate
- Good communication skills
- Team player
- Satisfactory Police Check and check against the POVA List (where applicable)
Desired:
- Experience of food preparation for the relevant Client group
JOB PURPOSE:
As a Kitchen Assistant, you are responsible (under the supervision of the Chef in Charge) for the preparation, simple cooking, and serving of food. Your duties will include:
Food Preparation:
- Basic preparation and cooking of breakfast and evening meals including the preparation of sandwiches, sweets, and snacks.
- Transporting and serving of food and beverages.
- Undertaking dining room duties including the setting up and clearing away of the dining area.
Communication:
- Participating in Staff and Client meetings as required.
- Training and Development:
- Maintaining and improving professional knowledge and competence.
- Attending mandatory training days/courses, on or off-site, as and when required.
Health and Safety:
- Ensuring statutory Health and Safety standards in the kitchen and dining areas.
- Making sure that chemicals/equipment are used correctly and safety procedures are adhered to at all times.
- Washing up after meals. Ensuring all crockery and equipment is cleaned and stored appropriately, and that the overall cleaning of the kitchen area (and, where appropriate, the dining areas) is carried out effectively.
- Assisting with the checking of equipment and food temperatures as directed.
- Reporting immediately to the Home Manager, or Person in Charge, any illness of an infectious nature or accident incurred by a Client, colleague, self, or another.
- Understanding and ensuring the implementation of the Home’s Health and Safety, Infection Control and Hygiene policies, and Emergency and Fire procedures.
- Reporting to the Home Manager, or the Handyperson, any faulty appliances, damaged furniture, equipment or any potential hazard.
General:
- Contributing to the safeguarding of adults by ensuring you are aware of your role in the Home’s Safeguarding Adult Policy, taking steps to protect Residents from any form of abuse or neglect, and using the appropriate reporting mechanisms to inform the Home’s Management of any concerns.
- Adhering to all new, and changes in Local and Central Government initiatives as and when they are implemented.
- Promoting and ensuring the good reputation of the Home.
- Ensuring that all information of confidential nature gained in the course of duty is not divulged to third parties.
- Notifying the Home Manager, or the Person in Charge, as soon as possible of your inability to report for duty, and also on your return to work from all periods of absence.
- Ensuring the security of the Home is maintained at all times
- Adhering to all Company policies and procedures within the defined timescales.
- Ensuring all equipment is clean and well maintained.
- Carrying out any other tasks that may be reasonably assigned to you.