Kitchen assistant/cook

The Old Rectory Care Home
  • Title Kitchen assistant/cook
  • Setting Care Home / Nursing Home
  • Role Kitchen Assistant / Catering Assistant
  • Salary 7.30 - 15.00 Mon - Sunday 5 days out of 7
  • Hours Full Time
  • Location Shifnal, Shropshire

Job Summary

Date posted: 3 April 2025
  • Job Reference: cook/kitchen assistant

Small 30 room care home with Outstanding rating. 5 star food hygeine rating. We are accredited Gold for Investors in people. Private healthcare scheme after probation period. 

The successful candidate will work alongside the Chef and breakfast assistant, they will also liase with senir carers running the shift. The person will be required to be time effective, efficient, flexible, adaptable, organised. The residents we care for are used to very high standards, food is cooked fresh on a daily basis. The duties will include ensuring the kitchen is kept clean and tidy, assist the chef with prep, assist the breakfast assistant to take trays to the residents rooms, assist in the dining room at breakfast, collect the following days orders, Document fluid and diet charts for residents, document cleaning as part of the better business safer food policies.

The successful candidates hourly rate is £13.00 per hour. Bank holiday rates are enhanced.

 

 

Skills / Qualifications:

  • Skills required are: Level 2 Food safety
  • Care home experience prefered but not essential. The home environment is like a country hotel with wrap around grounds
  • it is family run and has 55 staff at present who become part of a wider Rectory family. The team here are passionate about their role and the part they play within the team and across all teams.