Kitchen Assistant

Kitchen Assistant at Attendo Majakka Hakalahti kitchen – We are here for you! At Attendo, we are on a journey to become a home. This means we want to be, above all, a home for the elderly, disabled, and those in mental health and substance abuse rehabilitation. In recent years, we have succeeded in management, customer experience, and encounters by growing both relative and resident satisfaction as well as staff satisfaction to historic highs. Every resident deserves to be met as themselves and live a full life. As an Attendo employee, you are an important part of this mission. The significance of food for the well-being and comfort of our care home residents is immense. As a kitchen assistant, you ensure that residents enjoy high-quality and tasty home-cooked food daily. Your task is to assist the kitchen staff in food preparation under their guidance. This is a casual/on-call position. What will you be doing? - Assisting in food preparation under the guidance of kitchen staff - Dishwashing - Waste management - Making self-monitoring entries and reacting to deviations - Packaging - Keeping the kitchen clean - Kitchen laundry maintenance - Assisting kitchen tasks: baking, desserts, salad, evening snacks - Unloading shipments What do we require from you? - Work experience in similar tasks is an advantage - Hygiene passport - Fluent Finnish language skills, at least B1 level (our working language and documentation are in Finnish) - Vaccination protection as referred to in Section 48 of the Communicable Diseases Act to protect customers and patients throughout the employment relationship What do we offer you? - We walk beside you: Your supervisor is not far away but present in everyday life – supporting you. You are an important part of a multidisciplinary team. - We support your development: Development opportunities are real. We have a wide range of training and encourage employees to study and advance their careers. - Meaningful work in an environment where you can create homemade food for residents, affecting their daily life and health. Employment benefits include: - Free coffee/tea at work and meal benefits - Staff benefit program offering discounts from various service providers - Comprehensive occupational health care at Mehiläinen - Training opportunities for career development Terms of employment and remuneration follow the collective agreement for the private social services sector. Please note that we are a smoke-free workplace. Application deadline is 30.08.2026, but we fill the position as soon as a suitable candidate is found. Applications in Finnish only via the recruitment system.