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Job Title: Kitchen Assistant
Location: Richmond Village Bede, Hospital Lane, CV12 0PB
Salary range: £12.90 per hour & Excellent Benefits
Contract: Part Time 22hrs
Shift Pattern: Hrs between 8am - 8pm to include weekends
About Us
We make health happen. Here at Bupa, we support those when they need it the most. Richmond Villages are our retirement village provider. They deliver person-centred care, supporting independence and honouring choice to help our residents live their best lives.
About the Role
As a Kitchen Assistant, you’ll assist our Chefs in ensuring all catering areas are cleaned, maintained, and safe.
What You’ll Do:
- Preparing simple meals and ancillary items for service under the direction of the Chef
- Washing dishes by hand or loading the dishwasher, you’ll store clean items neatly and safely to minimize breakages
- Sweeping and mopping kitchen floors to ensure they’re free from grease or spillage at all times
- Washing work tables, walls, kitchen equipment, and appliances, adhering to cleaning schedules
- Operating kitchen equipment and transferring this safely between storage and work areas
- Ensuring the kitchen is kept tidy and left secure, rubbish is removed, and all supplies are put away in the correct place
- Adhering to company Food Safety and Health and Safety policies at all times, maintaining all records outlined in the HACCP policy
Key Skills / Qualifications
You have an understanding of Health and Safety and knowledge of maintaining a clean, safe, and hygienic environment. An up-to-date CIEH Level 2 Food Hygiene Certificate (or equivalent) and previous experience of working in a catering department or kitchen would be advantageous. Ideally, you have some knowledge of working in a care environment and stock control along with an ability to prepare simple meals. Organised and adaptable, you have the ability to work well within a team and under your own initiative.
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Benefits
Our benefits are designed to make health happen for our people. Viva is our global wellbeing programme and includes all aspects of our health – from mental and physical, to financial, social, and environmental wellbeing. We support flexible working and have a range of family-friendly benefits.
- My Healthcare: Quick, easy access to support, advice, and treatment for a variety of health-related issues, including remote GP, physiotherapy, and mental health support – all available from one phone number 24/7.
- Annual allowance: Which you can redeem against a menu of Bupa healthcare products, all to the approximate value of £350
- Sick pay scheme: To our frontline teams, as an addition to statutory sick pay, to help provide some reassurance and financial support during longer absences.
- Free meal with every shift
- Holidays: 20 days + Bank Holidays
- Long Service: For every milestone at Bupa we will reward you with ecards, extra holidays, and money!
- Interest-free annual travel Loan: To enable the purchase of public transport annual season tickets.
- Wagestream: Have early access up to 40% of your earned wages within minutes.
- Bupa pension plans: Find out more on our career site
- Parental Leave: We have schemes for adoption, birth parents, and co-parents – Find out more on our career site
- Menopause Plan: Specifically designed to empower women to seek advice, choose their treatment, and take control of their health.
- Access to discounts: At a wide variety of gyms and fitness facilities across the UK
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Why Bupa?
We’re a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. Our people are all driven by the same purpose – helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We make health happen by being brave, caring, and responsible in everything we do.
We encourage all of our people to “Be you at Bupa”, we champion diversity, and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve. That’s why we especially encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.
Bupa is a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer. This means we aim to offer an interview/assessment to every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the role. We’ll make sure you are treated fairly and offer reasonable adjustments as part of our recruitment process to anyone that needs them.
Time Type: Part time
Job Area: Care Home - Facilities & Home Support
Locations: Richmond Bede Village
Be at the heart of helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We employ more than 80,000 people globally who are making this a reality. If you've got the belief, the drive, and the talent to help us in our ambition then we’d like to hear from you.
Wherever you work, one thing stands out about Bupa people. Our customers are our passion – they’re at the heart of our positively different culture of care.
At Bupa, you’ll be challenged, you’ll be encouraged to innovate, and collaborate with colleagues who are committed to delivering exceptional experiences. We trust, respect, and consider everyone, knowing your difference will make the difference.
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