Kitchen Assistant Oak Springs Care Home

Kitchen Assistant. Oak Springs Care Home

• 24 hours per week
• 3 x 8 hour shifts per week including weekend working
• £11.49 per hour

Join us at Oak Springs our luxury purposebuilt residential care home in Wavertree. Here at Oak Springs we provide the highest standard of residential respite and dementia care for older people.

Our beautiful 74bedded home is spread across 3 floors and our lively team supports the vibrant community of residents to enjoy everything from music rooms and a beauty salon to peaceful lounge and courtyard areas. We embrace sensory enlightenment encourage individuality and focus on enhancing quality of life rather than just preserving it.

As a Kitchen Assistant at our home your role may involve:

• Undertaking any necessary training
• Support kitchen staff with basic food preparation
• Cleaning and maintaining cooking equipment such as pots pans and food mixer etc
• Washing dirty dishes such as cutlery pots chopping boards pans or loading dishes into a dishwasher
• Cleaning the kitchen at the end of the day to ensure it’s ready for the next day by sterilising the countertops stove oven grills and sinks

Sandstone employees enjoy a range of benefits:

• Free uniform. Free Meals*. Free DBS.
• Discounts on the high street* with retailers like Asda Costa and Argos
• ReferaFriend and get a £250 bonus
• Flexible pay* choose when you are paid and management tips too
• Free wellbeing programme helping you look after your physical and mental health
• Employee recognition scheme we recognise and reward great work
• Pension scheme helping you plan for your retirement
• Inhouse training ongoing facetoface training tailored to you
• Career opportunities The chance to ‘make your mark’ and play a key role

*Overtime is paid for working over full time hours. However overtime enhancement will not feature on your contract of employment and can be withdrawn at any time as managers decision is final. Free meals are given if working over an 8 hour shift and are subject to terms and conditions. Discounts are accessed using our ‘Reward Me’ app. Flexible pay is available via ‘WAGESTREAM’.

What are we looking for

• Experience in a similar role is desirable but not essential

Sandstone Care Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer:

We welcome and encourage applications from all backgrounds. We embrace diversity within each service as we think it is important that the Social Care Workforce represents the people it serves. We welcome applications from people from backgrounds including disabled candidates Black Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates LGBTQ as well as nonbinary candidates and those with experience of mental health.