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SalaryCatering Assistant
Eastbourne
Salary: Up to £12.64 per hour
Hours: 20 hours including 2 x's 8 hr shifts every other weekend 2x's 8 hr shifts every other Thursday and Friday
About Us:
Shinewater Court is located in Eastbourne and offers accommodation and support to adults with a range of disabilities including cerebral palsy, muscular dystrophy, spina bifida and disabilities resulting from accidents or stroke.
We are a passionate and committed team, delivering a high standard of care and rehabilitation. Our Support Workers and wider Team thrive on working together to enable our service users to be as independent as possible and achieve their rehabilitation goals.
We will train you to provide personalised support to our adult residents. You will follow individual support plans to meet the needs and aspirations of each person. The focus is developing independent living skills: personal hygiene, meal preparation, exercise, leisure activities, socialising – the daily routine of regular life.
You’ll get huge job satisfaction from seeing the people you are supporting do more for themselves and live the life they want to live. If you’re interested in building a career, we’re here to support you all the way on your own journey.
The role:
To assist in the daily preparation of cooked nutritious meals for service users ensuring food is of a high quality.
Your main duties would include:
- Assisting in the planning and preparation a varied choice of menus, ensuring properly balanced and nutritious meals are provided, taking into account any special dietary requirements and service user preferences.
- Assisting in ensuring that the storage, preparation and cooking of all food is carried out using the highest standards of hygiene.
- Being responsible for the storage and use of cleaning items in accordance with COSHH.
Your benefits would include:
- A competitive salary of up to £12.64 per hour
- 33 days annual leave including bank holidays (This entitlement is pro-rata)
- Group life assurance
- Access to our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
- Eye voucher scheme
- Long service and staff awards
- Company Pension
- Nationwide staff discounts including eating out and shopping
- Excellent training
- Blue Light Card: provides those in the NHS, emergency services, social care sector and armed forces with discounts online and in-store.
To join our friendly team, click the Apply Now button
Please note: we will be shortlisting and interviewing candidates on a rolling basis until the role is filled therefore, we recommend applying as soon as possible.
*All successful candidates are subject to compliance checks including 3 years of checkable references and DBS/PVG checks*
Brainkind are a Disability Confident Employer. As users of the disability confident scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the vacancy. Brainkind is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive organisation. It’s a place where we recognise, celebrate and live our values which includes offering a range of inclusive employment policies and staff engagement forums to support employees from all backgrounds.
