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Kitchen Steward at Metropolitan Hospital
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Nairobi 🇰🇪 Kenya
Posted 4 days ago (1 Sep 2026) Deadline: 7 Sep 2026 Updated 1 day ago
Job Description
The Kitchen Steward ensures a clean, hygienic kitchen environment in a hospital setting while supporting food preparation and service. Responsibilities include maintaining food safety standards, managing stock, and adhering to health and safety protocols.
Qualifications & Requirements
- • Professional Certificate in catering, food service or a related field
- • Minimum 1 year experience in kitchen or food‑service operations
- • Knowledge of food safety and hygiene standards
- • Ability to follow health and safety procedures
Required Skills
Responsibilities
- • Maintain high standards of cleanliness, hygiene and sanitation in all kitchen and food‑service areas
- • Support food preparation tasks such as washing, peeling, chopping, portioning and serving meals according to patient dietary requirements
- • Ensure proper food handling, storage, labeling, dating and stock rotation to prevent contamination and waste
- • Manage kitchen waste and keep the work environment organized and hygienic
- • Clean and maintain kitchen equipment, utensils and service items, reporting any faults to the supervisor
- • Assist with inventory control of cleaning supplies, kitchen tools and equipment
- • Follow food safety, infection control, fire, electrical and occupational health procedures
- • Work collaboratively with chefs and kitchen staff to complete tasks efficiently and safely
- • Perform any additional duties assigned by the catering supervisor