Kitchen Assistant

At The Hawthorns we believe in supporting those who support our residents; we recognise and celebrate our hard-working colleagues, champion your career development and offer a range of apprenticeships, and provide you with access to a range of leisure and retail discounts. 

We are now seeking a compassionate, enthusiastic and dedicated individual to join our friendly, award-winning team as Kitchen Assistant.   

ABOUT THE ROLE 

Your focus as Kitchen Assistant is to support the catering function in food preparation and maintaining a clean environment for the safe production of beverages and meals, ensuring a high quality and comprehensive service is delivered to residents. 

Other responsibilities will include: 

• Understanding the principles of safe food handling, to ensure all food preparations undertaken in the kitchen is to the highest standards of hygiene. 
• Contributing fully to team working, 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 accordingly towards residents and their visitors, respecting the dignity and individuality of each resident. 

ABOUT YOU  

To be successful in your application, you will live our values of caring, supportive, honest, respectful, and accountable in all that you do.  

Our ideal candidate must: 

• Hold Basic Food Hygiene Certificate and demonstrates high standards of personal hygiene. 
• Have the knowledge of Health and Safety, particularly Moving and Handling techniques, Fire Safety and COSHH assessments. 
• Be an efficient worker, capable of a high level of sustained physical effort and able to respond to a demanding workload. 
• Demonstrate initiative and display a positive and flexible aptitude to team working. 
• Exhibit a caring and understanding attitude towards the residents. 

ABOUT THE HAWTHORNS 

The Hawthorns is a unique retirement model that offers retirement properties to rent for couples or individuals who seek a rich, independent lifestyle, at beautiful locations across the country. The Hawthorns retirement villages are vibrant and companionable places; we eat together, we have fun together, and we live together. Our vision of ‘creating meaningful lives together’ is reached by the exceptional service and experience we proudly offer throughout our portfolio of four luxurious retirement homes whilst establishing ourselves as the preferred choice for residents and employees.  

Please note this role will require: 

• A DBS Disclosure check, the cost of which will be met by the business.  
• Proof of eligibility to work in the UK.