Local Government Council Opportunity: Kitchen Assistant

Kitchen Assistant Current Vacancies

2006-11-25:

Kitchen assistants are responsible for cleaning the kitchen, carrying out basic food preparation tasks, and ensuring that chefs have everything they need.

Keeping the kitchen clean and following strict hygiene and health and safety rules is an important part of the work.

This involves making sure that equipment, kitchen appliances, work surfaces, floors and walls are kept clean.

Kitchen assistants are also responsible for the washing up.
The work is quite often allocated to a particular kitchen department.

Assistants will use a variety of kitchen equipment such as automatic mixers, chipping machines and specially designed knives and cutters.

Hours of work vary and may include evenings, weekends and public holidays. Part-time, casual or seasonal work may be available.

Kitchen assistants spend most of their time on their feet in the kitchen, which is often hot, steamy and noisy.
There are usually plenty of vacancies for this type of work.

On completion of NVQ - SVQ Level 2 in Food Preparation and Cooking or with equivalent experience, promotion may be possible to trainee or commis chef.

The rate of pay ranges from the minimum hourly rate to up to 7.50 an hour.
Annual income ranges from 7,300 to 16,000. (Permalink)