Bank Kitchen Assistant

1. We are looking for a Kitchen Assistant who can manage the provision of a catering service within the home with particular emphasis on the planning, preparing, cooking and serving of meals.
2. You'll Monitor and adapt food production ensuring that there is a minimum of wasted food and ensure all food stocks are managed and rotated as appropriate.
3. The role holder will be numerate, literate and qualified to NVQ3/C&G standard with an advanced food catering certificate.

Main Purpose

Manages the provision of a catering service within the home with particular emphasis on the planning, preparing, cooking and serving of meals ensuring all activities and operations comply with operational standards and statutory regulations.

Key Accountabilities

Quality

• Ensures the effective and efficient planning, preparation and delivery of all aspects of food preparation and cooking, taking account of dietary and nutritional requirements within the home.
• Actively involved in the preparation, cooking and serving of food and beverages as well as supervising and motivating the catering team and ensuring operational standards comply with the company’s ‘Assured Safe Catering policies’ and guidelines and statutory regulations.
• Responsible for monitoring the home’s catering budget within Priory standards, taking account of cost per cover calculations, as well as ensuring best value and quality of ingredients in consultation with the Home Manager.
• Researches, develops and creates varied and interesting menus which take account of healthy eating guidelines and any dietary requirements of the particular resident group.
• Ensures that stock ordering and rotation is organised in an efficient and cost-effective manner.

Innovation

• To ensure that wherever possible the people who use are service are provided with variety and choice, with full regard for dietary, nutritional and religious requirements.
• Able to adapt to the changing needs of the people who use the service and able to keep up to date with the medication side effects that the people who use our service may experience so that their diets can be amended accordingly.

Value

• Monitors and adapts food production ensuring that there is a minimum of wasted food.
• Ensure all food stocks are managed and rotated as appropriate. 

Knowledge & Skills

• The role holder will be numerate, literate and qualified to NVQ3/C&G standard with an advanced food catering certificate.

Experience

• At least 3 years experience of preparing, and cooking meals gained within a large professional kitchen environment.

Autonomy & Impact

• Works to agreed short-term objectives where the impact of judgements will be immediately obvious.

Intelligent Problem Solving

• Problem solving is based on acquired knowledge and experience; however, the nature of food preparation and staff supervision will occasionally require some adaptive thinking.

Responsibility

Staff

• Supervisory responsibility for up to five staff.

Budgets & equipment

• Responsible for checking and authorising payment of invoices before submission to the Home
• Manager for sign-off. Responsible for the proper use and maintenance of catering equipment, and for ensuring the effective storage and rotation of stock and equipment.

Informatics

• Shared responsibility for maintaining appropriate records and data as required under the company’s Assured Safe Catering policies and guidelines.