Kitchen Assistant

**Kitchen Assistant**
We are One Housing and we create places for people to call home and support them to live well. With a breadth of services and expertise to help people whatever their housing, care, or support needs. Our Care team is friendly and we love what we do. We are passionateabout the high-quality support we provide. We offer our colleagues a friendly, collaborative workplace and the chance to build a rewarding career with a not-for-profit organisation that is proud to make a genuine difference to peoples’ lives, each and everyday.
**Join our Care team in Fairfield Park as a Kitchen Assistant**
Baycroft, Fairfield Park, is a beautifully designed 75-bed care home with a relaxed and calm atmosphere. Focusing on their resident’s happiness, the staff are extremely caring and skilled to ensure the best possible care is provided.
We’re an organisation with strong values. We keep our promises; we do a great job; we value diversity; we work together; and we look for ways to improve. These are what make us such a great team, working together as one to achieve our vision.
**The role**
We have a fantastic opportunity for someone to join us in the position of Kitchen Assistant. We are on the hunt for an enthusiastic, committed and passionate Kitchen Assistant to join our first-class catering team in Fairfield Park. As our Kitchen Assistant,you will be essential for the overall efficiency and standards of our back of house function committed to providing a fine dining experience to our residents. Your responsibilities include:

- Providing an efficient and effective restaurant service that fully meets the needs of our residents, along with the high standards expected within the Home.
- Assisting with fresh food items, plating and delivering to our residents during food service times.
- Ensuring all crockery and equipment is cleaned and stored appropriately and that overall cleanliness of the kitchen is maintained at all times.
- Ensuring Health & Safety standards are maintained at all times

**What you will need to succeed**
- Have previous catering or hospitality experience - desirable
- Be able to comfortably work as part of a team.
- Work to deadlines whilst maintaining the highest quality of output.
- Have a keen eye for detail.
- Be flexible

**The offer**
- **Salary: **£9.90 per hour
- **Your holidays are important to us. **Take up to 29 days annual leave inclusive of bank holidays
- **Lean travel. **Spread the cost of your commute with a season ticket loans and our Cycle2Work scheme, open to all colleagues
- **Get paid to do good. **We offer you two days off on full pay each year to volunteer in our
- **Well done **With our colleague recognition programme you will know when you’ve done a #greatjob
- **Learning never stops.** One Academy, our innovative, in-house learning and development offering is designed to help you take your career to the next level.
- **We’re here for you.** Our employee assistance programme offers counselling and support for you and your family 24/7.
- **Stay book-smart. **Take up to five paid days off per year to study toward a relevant qualification.
- **Experience new things.** We offer you a career break after 3 years’ continuous

**About us**
As an organisation with a strong social purpose, One Housing works in some of the most diverse communities in the UK and our workforce reflects that. As of December 2021, One Housing merged with the Riverside Group, creating one of the country's largest housingassociations, with more than 75,000 homes. This follows a shared recognition that we are better and stronger together; and that when we combine, we will be able to do more for our customers and the communities we serve.
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