About This Role
Working as a Catering Assistant, you will contribute to providing high-quality catering and dining support services within Beddell House Care Home. This involves ensuring residents receive nutritious, well-presented meals and refreshments in a safe, clean, and welcoming environment, while maintaining high standards of food hygiene, cleanliness, health and safety, and resident care.
Responsibilities
- Conduct routine equipment checks, report faults promptly, and remove any unsafe or defective equipment from service immediately
- Undertake the preparation, delivery, and service of food and beverages, ensuring high standards of quality and presentation
- Assist in the day-to-day operation of kitchen and dining facilities, maintaining a clean, safe, and welcoming environment
- Support residents during mealtimes, promoting dignity, independence, choice, and a positive dining experience
- Ensure residents' dietary, nutritional, cultural, religious, and medical requirements are met, including modified texture diets where required
- Observe and report concerns relating to residents' food intake, hydration, appetite, or wellbeing to the appropriate member of staff
- Ensure food is stored, handled, prepared, and served in accordance with food safety legislation and organisational procedures
- Maintain high standards of food hygiene, cleanliness, and infection prevention and control throughout all catering areas
- Assist with the preparation, setting up, clearing, and cleaning of dining areas before and after meal services
- Check orders and deliveries, rotate and put away stock, check stock expiry dates, and dispose of out-of-date food appropriately
- Follow opening and closing procedures in the kitchen
- Complete and maintain food safety, cleaning, stock, and temperature monitoring records as required
- Work collaboratively with colleagues to support residents' health, wellbeing, and individual needs
- Operate within Organisational Policies and Procedures (including Health & Safety, Safeguarding, Infection Control, and HR Policies), and comply with all legal requirements in relation to food safety and hygiene, including Environmental Health and HSE
- Participate in mandatory training and ongoing professional development relevant to the role
- Treat residents, visitors, colleagues, and external professionals with dignity, respect, and professionalism at all times
Important Details
- Employment type: full-time or part-time
About the Company
Sherburn House Charity is one of the oldest charitable organisations in the North East, dedicated to supporting older people through the provision of high-quality care and housing in Durham. With a history spanning over 800 years, it continues to serve the community by offering a wide range of accommodation and support options. Beddell House is a high-quality 55-room residential care home in Durham, and the charity also provides 30 rental properties for people over the age of 55.
