Kitchen Assistant

We have the brilliant opportunity for a Kitchen Assistant to join our Briarwood home in Blaydon, Gateshead!

This is a 15 hour per week role - salary is £24,637.56 pro rata, £9,841.40 per annum (approx.)

This is a Monday - Friday role, contracted at 15 hours per week. You will be required to work 3 hours per day.

This role is not eligible for sponsorship as is does not meet the requirements as set out by the UK Visa and Immigration Service

Briarwood is our assessment unit which supports older adults with a diagnosis of dementia or dementia like symptoms. Our team of experienced Staff Nurses and Support Workers assess individuals with differing diagnoses of dementia such as early onset Alzheimer’s disease, Korsakoff’s dementia and vascular dementia.

About The Job

As our Kitchen Assistant, your role will be to:

• Maintain the kitchen, storage area and dining room, keeping all equipment, work surfaces and floors clean to ensure a high level of cleanliness is kept at all times.
• Process online shops to the service users request to assist the relevant service users with meeting their needs and meal planning.
• Assist the service users, but ordering meals where required and organising food upon delivery to ensure food hygiene standards are met and users have appropriate menu choices available.
• Provide food at particular times, conduct food preparation and ensure prepped meals are delivered throughout the course of each day to ensure fluid/food intake and a balanced nutritious diet.
• Inform the relevant manager of any faulty equipment and follow any subsequent instruction to allow smooth operation.
• Support with maintenance of all food safety records required by regulatory bodies to maintain a high standard of cleanliness and health and safety.
• Support the service user by storing evening meals appropriately and storing deliveries, making sure stock is rotated via used by dates, to ensure accordance with health and safety policies.
• Conduct stock check on dry store stock and inform clinical staff of ordering requirements to ensure service users have enough supplies each time.
  
  

About You

We would love to hear from you if you possess the following:

• Demonstrable experience of basic food preparation
• Demonstrable experience of cleanliness standards in a kitchen/food setting
• Detailed understanding of Food hygiene and standards
• Detailed understanding of relevant Health and Safety policies and procedures
• Awareness of nutrition and how to achieve a balanced diet
• Awareness of common mental health problems that people may face
  
  

What We Offer In Return

We are proud to have been recognised and certified as a Great Place to Work, which speaks volumes on how much we value our staff members. In return for the hard work and dedication from our teams, we offer the following benefits:

• 30 days annual leave plus bank holidays (rising to 32 days at 5 years’ service) pro rata for part-time and the option to purchase or sell days
• Enhanced pension
• Wagestream - ability to release earnings, giving you instant access to your pay
• Smart Clinic Wellbeing Programme including Employee Assistant Programme, GP and priority physiotherapy access and shopping discounts with the opportunity to sign up for a Blue Light Card
• Enhanced life assurance scheme, payment being three times your annual salary
• Plus, many more great benefits on offer
  
  

Here at Everyturn Mental Health we champion equality, diversity and inclusion within the organisation by ensuring our opportunities are open to all and our approach is inclusive. We positively encourage applications from candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion/belief, marital status, or pregnancy/maternity.

We welcome you to be yourself at work and have a range of Colleague Networks for members and allies of the LGBTQ+; Black, Asian and minority ethnic; menopause and neurodivergent communities.