Kitchen Assistant
About this role
Job Advertisement: Kitchen Assistant
Position: Kitchen Assistant
Location: Springwood Corner Care Home, 53 Ascot Road, Gravesend, Kent, United Kingdom
Pay Rate: £12.75 per hour
Contract Type: Part Time
Closing Date: 7 October 2026
About Us
At Supportive Bridge Staffing Agency, we proudly partner with premier care providers to place high-calibre culinary and support professionals into dynamic environments where they can truly excel. We are excited to represent Avery Healthcare in their search for a warm, enthusiastic, and dedicated Kitchen Assistant to join the award-winning team at Springwood Corner Care Home in Gravesend.
The Role
Are you an efficient and hardworking individual looking for a rewarding role where your support directly contributes to the daily happiness and health of elderly residents? As a Kitchen Assistant, your primary focus will be to support the catering function in food preparation and maintain an immaculate, safe kitchen environment for the production of high-quality meals and beverages.
Key Responsibilities:
Understanding 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 for tasks, ensuring the timely and appropriate ordering of replacement goods.
Acting courteously and respectfully toward residents and their visitors, always 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:
Hold a Basic Food Hygiene Certificate and demonstrate high standards of personal hygiene.
Good knowledge of Health and Safety, particularly regarding 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.
Strong initiative, a positive and flexible aptitude for teamwork, and a caring, understanding attitude toward 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).