Job Description

Hourly rate:

12.21 per hour

Location:

St Lukes, Upper Carr Lane, Calverley

Company:

Mariposa Care Group

Postcode:

LS28 5PL

Qualifications Required:

Ideally, you will have food hygiene certificate and a Level 2 catering qualification or equivalent (or a commitment to undertake further training and development, relevant to the role)


Plus enjoy lots of great benefits when you join the Mariposa family.


Mariposa Care has an opportunity available for a Catering Assistant (Bank) to join the kitchen team in our friendly care home, St Lukes. We're on the lookout for someone to support the Chef with food preparation and storage, ensuring different dietary requirements are met where necessary, assist in maintaining accurate records and maintaining the highest standards of cleanliness and hygiene.


Ideally, you will have worked in a care home kitchen before but if you haven't, you'll still have experience of preparing and serving creative, high quality and nutritious meals in a commercial environment.

Our benefits include:

Recognition of service payments, receiving a total of 500 in your first year UNLIMITED 1,000 'Refer a Friend' payments (that's potentially 1,000 every time you link us up with another great new person to join the team!) Training and qualifications funded by us Annual pay reviews recognising your contribution to making our homes a great place to live and work Private health care options helping reduce the cost of essential bills, such as dental and optical treatment An organisation with an impressive internal promotion record and creating great opportunities for people

Our recruitment process

If you're offered a role with us, it will be conditional on some standard checks, like references and a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. We also need you to have good English and numeracy skills, plus a passion for caring and helping our residents to thrive.


We want every candidate to feel supported and able to perform at their best during the recruitment process. If you need any assistance or would like to request a reasonable adjustment at any stage, just drop us an email at recruitment@mariposacare.com - we'll be happy to help.


At Mariposa Care, we're committed to building a fair and inclusive workplace. We welcome applications from everyone, no matter your age, gender, gender identity or expression, religion, belief, disability, ethnicity, or sexual orientation.


Job titles can vary - this role is also known as cook's assistant, kitchen helper, general kitchen assistant, catering assistant, food preparation assistant, domiciliary assistant, social care.