Kitchen Assistant Bank

Franklin House are looking for a flexible Bank Kitchen Assistants to join their team!

This role is a bank contract, and the ideal candidate will need to be flexible to pick up shifts covering sickness and annual leave. The hourly rate for this position is £10.42 per hour.

Location: West Drayton, Greater London, UB7 7PW

You

You’re a hard-working individual with experience working in a busy kitchen. Ideally, you’ve already got some experience in a care home setting. You’re also a caring person who understands how important mealtimes are to older, vulnerable people. You’re a good team player who takes pride in your job and is happy to go the extra mile. You know the importance of food hygiene and health and safety rules. Above all, you want to be a valued member of a friendly team. You’re keen to progress in your catering career and do your bit to improve the nutrition of older people.

Your role

Reporting to the Head Chef, you’ll make sure all kitchen equipment and areas are properly cleaned. As part of our hard-working team, you’ll also help prepare tasty, nutritious meals that our residents and guests will enjoy. For example, you’ll take pressure off the chefs by cooking breakfast in the mornings. At main mealtimes, you’ll add those much-loved finishing touches like custard or gravy. You’ll be responsible for safe, hygienic food storage and for making sure kitchen equipment and cleaning materials are kept in their correct places. In return, we’ll give you lots of support, training and opportunities to progress in your career.

As a Kitchen Assistant at Care UK, you can look forward to:

• Competitive pay – we pay more than the average
• Flexible hours, including a choice of day, night or weekend shifts
• Bank holiday enhancements
• Fast-track career options, e.g. to chef
• Quality training to develop your skills
• Stakeholder pension
• Childcare vouchers
• Free uniform
• Thousands of online and in-store discounts

About Care UK

We run over 120 homes and day clubs across the UK. We provide residential, nursing, dementia and end-of-life care for older people. As one of the UK’s leading care home providers, our goal is to help every employee fulfil his or her potential – with first-class training and support.

At Franklin House care home in West Drayton, expect quality care in comfortable surroundings.

This website has lots of information to give you a sense of what life is like at Franklin House. You can find out more about the home, daily life here. Take a look at what our residents’ families think of our care home.

We have a warm and friendly team who enjoy getting to know each resident’s needs and their hobbies and interests. It means we can tailor our care to each individual. For example, all of the activities we offer at the care home are based around residents’ lifelong hobbies as well as other things they tell us they like doing.

Franklin House residents can get involved in a range of activities from art classes to reading clubs and enjoy performances from the musicians and professional entertainers who regularly come to visit. We also enjoy going on regular outings with our residents to the cinema, nearby parks around West Drayton, as well as attractions further into London or around the home counties. Find out more about daily life at Franklin House here.