# Kitchen Assistant /Domestic at The Somme Nursing Home in… > Source: https://confidential.careers/job-detail/kitchen-assistant-domestic-the-somme-nursing-home-belfast # Kitchen Assistant /Domestic The Somme Nursing Home ** Belfast, United Kingdom ** Full Time ** Operations Jobs ** United Kingdom ** New [Apply Now](https://confidential.careers/go/13601411) ** Save ## Job Description **Organisation:** The Somme Nursing Home **Post:**Kitchen Assistant/Domestic **Hours:**9.30am 6.30pm (3 days/week) **Reports to:** Domestic Senior Supervisor/Senior Cook Supervisor **Salary:** £13.00 per Hour dependent on qualification **Location:** The Somme Nursing Home, 121 Circular Road Belfast BT4 2NA **Contract Type**: Permanent The Somme Nursing home is a charity providing treatment and quality care for service and ex-service persons since 1914. It is registered as a general category nursing home with the Regulation & Quality Improvement Authority. A home that is light and spacious with 50 ground floor single en-suite beds. A home that is conveniently located on the Circular Road, a semi-rural setting off the Holywood Road, a quiet, leafy residential area creating an atmosphere of tranquillity. Our Philosophy of Care incorporates the provision of a high-quality care delivery to our residents, which is tailored to individual need and embraces the core values of the promotion of dignity, choice, and preservation of citizens rights, independence, self-determination, and privacy. We strive to create a homely environment, where love, compassion and understanding of the unique needs of the ex-service resident is paramount to our delivery of care. We encourage the involvement of both resident and the family to provide a holistically unique service in which residents needs are met. **ABOUT THE ROLE** Working as part of a domestic & kitchen team to ensure that spaces within the Nursing Home are kept neat, tidy, and sanitary, as well as, assisting in kitchen duties connected with the preparation, cooking and presentation of meals. **Job Description** **Domestic Cleaning** - To assist in providing a clean, healthy, and hygienic environment for residents and staff that complies with Health & Safety and COSHH standards. - Be responsible for ensuring the home looks, feels and smells nice for our residents as well as visitors to the home. - To achieve a high standard of cleanliness in order to maintain a clean, pleasant and safe environment and to reduce the risk of infection - Clean and conduct domestic duties as required by the work schedules produced by the Senior Domestic/Laundry/Kitchen Supervisor - Organise day to day cleaning duties to best suit the needs of the home. This includes cleaning of beds, mopping, damp dusting, cleaning of internal glass, walls, vacuuming, scrubbing (manual & machine), steam cleaning and buffing - Perform deep and special cleans in accordance with training given and method statements provided by Senior Supervisor - Changing of curtains and cleaning of blinds - Ensure that all bedrooms, bathrooms, and communal areas are properly cleaned and maintained throughout the building. - Work as part of the Domestic/Laundry/Kitchen team and respond to requests from Nursing Staff, and Management team of the Home in relations to relation to work priorities, local protocols and procedures - Adapt to unforeseen demands and tasks as appropriate to the environment and the grade - Working in accordance with all COSHH, Health and Safety and Manual Handling Policies as issued by the Trust **Kitchen Assisting** - Assisting Cook with preparation and serving meals - Ensuring all crockery, utensils and cooking equipment are washed and ready for use of each meal - Preparation of tables in dining room and trolleys for carrying food each mealtime - Ensure food is appropriately managed with regard to checking on arrival for quantity, quality and use by date - Ensure food is stored appropriately and stock rotation carried out. Inform Cook of any problems - Ensure all stock ordered is consistent with planned menus that reflect choice and preference - Ensure appropriate waste disposal of used foods and bags/bins emptied daily - Ensure all health and safety and environmental health standards are achieved and maintained - Report and record in the appropriate manner any information considered to be important to the Nurse manager or Business Support Manager - Ensure that the Cook-in-charge is kept informed of any changes or problems that occur during his/her absence. - Ensure that a good standard of hygiene and cleanliness & record keeping is maintained throughout the kitchen, to meet the required standards of practice prescribed by Environmental Health Agencies - Ensure that all machines are used correctly, cleaned, and stored. Any faults or damage is to be reported immediately. - Maintaining cleaning schedules for the kitchen, equipment, and associated areas. **Laundry** - Be responsible for the overall cleanliness of the Home and ensure that the laundry of residents is to the highest standard, including well-presented ironed clothes and bedding. Ensure that residents laundry is collected and correctly labelled to minimise lost items of clothing. Work with the Homemakers to ensure personal clothing of residents is put away in a neat and tidy manner - Ensure that all cleaning and laundry equipment is correctly and appropriately used and kept in a safe condition. Report any defects to the Maintenance team. To comply with COSHH and Health & Safety regulations, ensuring the correct use of personal protective equipment and follow the proper use of colour code systems within the home - As directed by Senior Domestic Supervisor to ensure that daily/weekly housekeeping tasks are completed as required and regular deep cleans are programmed to ensure the presentation of the Home is always at its best - Be sensitive to the privacy and individual needs of the residents and ensure all necessary documentation is completed daily. - Maintain standards of infection control within the laundry area and generally within the home and to assist residents to maintain their own infection control needs. - Operate the washing machine/driers and other equipment to launder household clothes, linen and residents personal clothing. Work within HSAW guidelines in operating all cleaning machinery, whilst maintaining skills in their usage and safe storage Understand stock control and stock rotation and ensure ordering of agreed stock is completed within budget and in a timely manner. - At all times maintain courtesy, respect and dignity to colleagues, residents and their visitors - Carry out other duties as may be assigned from time to time by Senior Domestic Supervisor **Criteria / Person Specification** - Previous domestic and kitchen experience within a commercial or business setting - Knowledge of cleaning procedures. - An ability to undertake a full range of cleaning duties using electrical equipment - Good verbal and written communication skills - An ability to work unsupervised and on own initiative - You will be required to have had or be willing to have the COVID19 vaccination for this position. - Must have a good command of written and spoken English and a valid work permit - Ability to communicate with the elderly - Ability to work set hours, flexible to meet the needs of the organization - Good General Health (medically fit) - The ability to treat people with dignity - Good listening and observational skills - Some awareness of the challenges faced by people who need care and support - Number skills. **Essential Skills** - Previous catering experience is preferred. **A satisfactory enhanced AccessNI check will be required for this post** If successful, please be aware that we do have a policy on the recruitment of ex-offenders. As per the Access NI Code of Practice, The Somme Nursing Home also has a policy on the secure handling, use, storage, and retention of disclosure information. Copies of these documents along with the Access NI Code of Practice are available upon request by contacting the HR Department. **Benefits** - Pension scheme - Comprehensive induction and paid training programme - Enhanced rates for bank holidays - Meals while on duty - Free Uniform - Onsite parking **Pay and Terms and Conditions** **Salary** per annum (pro-rata for part-time) **Hours** Bank, Part time Full Time **Medical** Appointment will be subject to a successful pre-employment health assessment. **Holidays** 28 days each year holidays pro rata **Pension** The post holder can participate in NEST pension scheme **Probationary Period** You will serve a probationary period of normally six months **Immediate vacancy applications will be considered as received until the position is filled.** Canvassing, either directly or indirectly, will be an absolute disqualification. We will review this Job Description and it may include any other duties and responsibilities we determine in consultation with the jobholder. We do not intend it to be rigid and inflexible but rather to provide guidelines within which the jobholder works. WHJS1_NI Posted August 11, 2026