Kitchen Assistant - Bank
About this role
Job Advertisement: Kitchen Assistant - Bank
Position: Kitchen Assistant - Bank
Location: Southbourne Beach Care Home, 42 Belle Vue Road, Bournemouth, Dorset, United Kingdom
Shift Details: 06:30 AM to 06:30 PM
Pay Rate: £12.75 per hour
Contract Type: Bank
Closing Date: 8 October 2026
About Us
At Supportive Bridge Staffing Agency, we proudly partner with premier care providers to place dedicated support and culinary professionals into dynamic environments where they can truly excel. We are excited to represent Avery Healthcare in their search for a warm, enthusiastic, and reliable Kitchen Assistant - Bank to join the award-winning team at Southbourne Beach Care Home in Bournemouth.
The Role
Are you passionate about food preparation, kitchen hygiene, and delivering a wonderful dining experience? As a Kitchen Assistant, your primary focus will be supporting the catering function in food preparation and maintaining a clean environment for the safe production of meals and beverages, ensuring a high quality and comprehensive service is delivered to residents.
Key Responsibilities:
Understanding and applying the principles of safe food handling to ensure all food preparation undertaken in the kitchen meets the highest standards of hygiene.
Contributing fully to teamwork, responding positively to colleagues, and actioning all reasonable work instructions promptly.
Advising on the supply and quality of items used to carry out tasks, ensuring the timely and appropriate ordering of replacement goods.
Acting courteously and respectfully toward residents and visitors, honoring the dignity and individuality of each resident.
About You
We are looking for individuals who live by Avery's core values: caring, supportive, honest, respectful, and accountable.
Requirements:
Must hold a Basic Food Hygiene Certificate and demonstrate high standards of personal hygiene.
Good knowledge of Health and Safety, particularly Moving and Handling techniques, Fire Safety, and COSHH assessments.
An efficient worker capable of a high level of sustained physical effort and able to respond to a demanding workload.
Initiative, positivity, and a flexible aptitude for teamwork.
A caring and understanding attitude towards residents.
Requirements for Employment: Proof of eligibility to work in the UK and a DBS Disclosure check (the cost of which is fully covered by Avery Healthcare).