• Job Description

  Req#: W0033-25-0566?language=en&page=485&sort=publicationDateDesc

  Job summary

  This role is for a Kitchen Assistant at Akari Care, a company that provides award-winning care for the elderly. The job involves ensuring the smooth and efficient running of the kitchen, including creating menus, plating up, and arranging trolleys to provide a personalized and high-quality service to the residents. The role requires a caring nature, experience in a similar environment, and a basic food hygiene certificate.

  Main duties of the job

  The Kitchen Assistant will be responsible for the smooth and efficient running of all kitchen processes, working closely with the Cook and the wider catering team. This includes creating menus, plating up, arranging trolleys, and ensuring each resident feels directly supported and looked after with the highest quality of care. The role requires a mindfulness and consciousness of individual religious and cultural backgrounds, and the ability to ensure that all residents feel they have a personalized service. The Kitchen Assistant will be the critical link between the kitchen and the serving areas, and will be jointly responsible for caring for the residents and ensuring that mealtimes are an enjoyable experience.

  About us

  Akari Care is committed to upholding values that they have created and share. They aim to create an environment where residents are valued, respected, and offered the personalized care they deserve. The company is seeking a Kitchen Assistant who is passionate about making a real and positive difference to the lives of older people.

  Details

  Date posted

  26 July 2025

  Pay scheme

  Other

  Salary

  £12.26 an hour

  Contract

  Permanent

  Working pattern

  Full-time

  Reference number

  1336914454

  Job locations

  Akari Care

  Gateshead

  NE8 1QU

  
  

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  Package Description:

  ** 16 Hours per week over 2 days - does include alternate weekend work **If you are passionate about caring for the elderly and want to build a long-term career in one of our award-winning homes, then look no further than Akari Care. Our aim is to create an environment where our residents are valued, respected, and are offered the personalised care they deserve.

  Akari Care is committed to upholding values that we created and share. It is, therefore, vitally important that any new colleague embraces and actively promotes our values across the organisation.

  We now seek an additional Kitchen / Catering Assistant who is passionate about, and thrives on, making a real and positive difference to the lives of older people.

  Working in collaboration and unison with the Cook and the wider catering team you will be responsible for ensuring the smooth, efficient running of all kitchen processes. These will include creating menus, plating up, arranging trollies, and ensuring each of our residents feel directly supported and looked after with the highest quality of support and care.

  Whilst you will be involved in all the practical duties you would expect in a busy care home kitchen it is vitally important to continuously ensure that you are mindful and conscious to individual religious and cultural backgrounds and how this might impact on meal choices, alongside making sure that all our residents feel they have a personalised service.

  As the critical link between the kitchen and the serving areas you will be conjointly responsible for caring for our residents. The key focus for us is ensuring mealtimes run smoothly and are an enjoyable experience at Akari Care, where all of our residents individual needs are catered for.

  By showing us you can match our values with the right desire for personal excellence, community spirit and a kind, caring and compassionate nature, we, in return, can offer you a career developing your knowledge, skills and abilities to support vulnerable adults with the care their individual needs require.

  Whats in it for you:

  • A competitive salary

  • Pension contribution of 5%

  • Recognition schemes and rewarding referral schemes

  • Uniform provided and DBS check costs paid

  • 28 days annual leave (based on full-time hours, including Bank Holidays)

  • Flexible working patterns

  • Fully funded training and development

  • Support with personal development plans

  • The opportunity to grow and develop both personally and professionally

  • An engaging community environment where everyone is respected and included

  What we require from you:

  • Experience of working within similar environment

  • Kitchen and food preparation experience required

  • Basic Food Hygiene Certificate

  • A caring nature to give everyone a personal approach

  • Flexible and adaptable to changes at short notice

  • Work well under pressure without negative impact to those around you

  • Warm, approachable, and engaging persona

  • Respect everyone, treating others as you would expect to be treated

  • Resilient and adaptable to differing needs of colleagues and residents

  AKSPO

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  Package Description:

  ** 16 Hours per week over 2 days - does include alternate weekend work **If you are passionate about caring for the elderly and want to build a long-term career in one of our award-winning homes, then look no further than Akari Care. Our aim is to create an environment where our residents are valued, respected, and are offered the personalised care they deserve.

  Akari Care is committed to upholding values that we created and share. It is, therefore, vitally important that any new colleague embraces and actively promotes our values across the organisation.

  We now seek an additional Kitchen / Catering Assistant who is passionate about, and thrives on, making a real and positive difference to the lives of older people.

  Working in collaboration and unison with the Cook and the wider catering team you will be responsible for ensuring the smooth, efficient running of all kitchen processes. These will include creating menus, plating up, arranging trollies, and ensuring each of our residents feel directly supported and looked after with the highest quality of support and care.

  Whilst you will be involved in all the practical duties you would expect in a busy care home kitchen it is vitally important to continuously ensure that you are mindful and conscious to individual religious and cultural backgrounds and how this might impact on meal choices, alongside making sure that all our residents feel they have a personalised service.

  As the critical link between the kitchen and the serving areas you will be conjointly responsible for caring for our residents. The key focus for us is ensuring mealtimes run smoothly and are an enjoyable experience at Akari Care, where all of our residents individual needs are catered for.

  By showing us you can match our values with the right desire for personal excellence, community spirit and a kind, caring and compassionate nature, we, in return, can offer you a career developing your knowledge, skills and abilities to support vulnerable adults with the care their individual needs require.

  Whats in it for you:

  • A competitive salary

  • Pension contribution of 5%

  • Recognition schemes and rewarding referral schemes

  • Uniform provided and DBS check costs paid

  • 28 days annual leave (based on full-time hours, including Bank Holidays)

  • Flexible working patterns

  • Fully funded training and development

  • Support with personal development plans

  • The opportunity to grow and develop both personally and professionally

  • An engaging community environment where everyone is respected and included

  What we require from you:

  • Experience of working within similar environment

  • Kitchen and food preparation experience required

  • Basic Food Hygiene Certificate

  • A caring nature to give everyone a personal approach

  • Flexible and adaptable to changes at short notice

  • Work well under pressure without negative impact to those around you

  • Warm, approachable, and engaging persona

  • Respect everyone, treating others as you would expect to be treated

  • Resilient and adaptable to differing needs of colleagues and residents

  AKSPO

  Person Specification

  Qualifications

  Essential

  • Experience of working in a similar environment, kitchen and food preparation experience, and a Basic Food Hygiene Certificate are required. A caring nature, flexibility, adaptability, and a warm and engaging persona are also essential.

  Person Specification

  Qualifications

  Essential

  • Experience of working in a similar environment, kitchen and food preparation experience, and a Basic Food Hygiene Certificate are required. A caring nature, flexibility, adaptability, and a warm and engaging persona are also essential.

  Disclosure and Barring Service Check

  This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

  Employer details

  Employer name

  Akari Care Limited

  Address

  Akari Care

  Gateshead

  NE8 1QU

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://www.akaricare.co.uk (Opens in a new tab)

  Employer details

  Employer name

  Akari Care Limited

  Address

  Akari Care

  Gateshead

  NE8 1QU

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://www.akaricare.co.uk (Opens in a new tab)

• About the company

  National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly-funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). The founding principles were that services should be comprehensive, universal and free at the point of delivery—a health service based on clinical need, not ability to pay. Each service provides a comprehensive range of health services, free at the point of use for people ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom apart from dental treatment and optical care.

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