Ancillary Assistant

**Housekeeper/Kitchen Assistant - Newton Hall - 34 hours per week**

**What is it like to work for Springcare?**

Here is what Ola says, “it is always busy but great to see people enjoy their food. You also get a chance to cook when you feel confident to do so.

We are looking for an enthusiastic and committed team member to join our kitchen team and housekeeping team.

We are a family run group of Residential and Nursing homes in Shropshire, Cheshire and The Wirral and we want you to join our Springcare family. We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer, who strives to provide a healthy and respectful work culture.

**About you**:
You will be positive, enthusiastic, and professional and be willing to go above and beyond to ensure our residents receive high quality service. We need someone who is self-motivated and has excellent communication skills.

**Responsibilities**:

- Assisting with the preparation and serving of hot and cold meals.
- Assisting the head cook to ensure that food is prepared in accordance with food hygiene regulations.
- Helping to keep the kitchen area and equipment clean and to the standard for food hygiene.
- Under guidance of head cook, maintaining accurate records of food supplies and freezer/fridge temperatures
- Being aware of varied preferences and dietary requirements of individual residents
- General cleaning and tidying of communal areas and our residents' bedrooms
- Hoovering, cleaning bathrooms and carrying out deep cleans.
- Laundry of resident's clothes, bedding and other items.
- Assisting the kitchen team
- Maintaining housekeeping products

**What Springcare can offer to you**:

- Permanent full and part time day contracts - with access to our work placed pension scheme
- Early pay using Wage Stream App - you can withdraw up to 50% of your earnings in advance of your pay.
- Access to Blue Light Card - where you can make savings across hundreds of national retailers
- Full support with ongoing fully funded training for nationally recognised qualifications with career progression opportunities.
- Refer a friend £££ scheme for each friend that you recommend (T&C apply)
- Access to counselling and wellbeing support.
- Family friendly policies
- Smooth robust recruitment process through our portal.

Successful applicants would require two written references, a standard/enhanced DBS (Disclosure Barring Service) (depending on role) and evidence of a right to work in the UK check.

Springcare are committed to safe and fair recruitment, safeguarding, and protecting those we care for and serve. We make sure all our staff are vetted, selected, trained, and supervised fairly and to a high standard so that they can provide safe, effective, and compassionate care.

Pay: £12.00 per hour

Expected hours: 34 per week

**Benefits**:

- Employee discount
- On-site parking

Schedule:

- Day shift
- Weekend availability

Work Location: In person

Reference ID: NH ancillary