Job Title: Kitchen Assistant
Location: Thetford
Salary: £9.90/h
Job Type: Permanent, Full Time/Part time, dependant on preference.
Black Swan Care Group has been involved in the Care Sector since its founding in 1991. We now own 20 separate care homes in East Anglia with plans to open one more soon.
The role
We have opportunities for a kitchen assistant who is a hard-working, conscientious individual to join our busy kitchen team in one of our residential care facilities – The Beeches – for Elderly people and those living with Dementia.
Candidates must be prepared to undertake all the relevant tasks to provide meals including Breakfast, Lunch, afternoon break and Supper, not to mention the extras and special event catering. As a result, this post offers a variety of duties with the reward of satisfied residents and staff!
Ideal Candidate
- It would be beneficial to have previous kitchen experience but not essential.
Main Duties and Responsibilities
- Washing, peeling and preparing food ingredients
- Using equipment such as mixers, special knives and cutters
- Reviewing kitchen inventory and determining what items are needed
- Unloading fresh supplies and organising the stockroom
- Checking sell-by dates and rotating food stock
- Cleaning kitchen appliances, ovens, dishes and pans
- Observing cooking times and correct temperatures
Benefits
- £250 Bonus on completion of probation.
- Paid annual leave 28 days per year. (Based on hours / pro rata)
- DBS costs paid for by the company.
- Paid breaks.
- Full paid induction and training programme.
- *Free meals.
- Excellent on-going training from day one and throughout your career.
- Continuous training, mandatory and specialised.
- Progression with internal promotions available, across the group.
- Enhanced pay for working Christmas and Boxing Day & Bank Holidays.
- Pension scheme.
- Blue light card.
- Refer a friend bonus scheme. (£200 per placement)
- Excellent apprenticeship scheme.
- Employee Careline with our confidential telephone counselling, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
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Candidates with the experience or relevant job titles of Restaurant Chef, Breakfast Chef, Experienced Chef, Kitchen Chef, Catering, Food Catering, Catering Chef, Chef Assistant, Food Preparation, Cook, Assistant Chef, Cook Assistant, Kitchen Assistant, Kitchen Manager, Food Hygiene, Kitchen Supervisor, head Chef will also be considered for this role.
