CareCorp Senior Services is a trusted company who provide superior healthcare, food and support services to long-term care and assisted living facilities across BC.
We are looking for a Cook to join our amazing kitchen team in one of our beautiful assisted living and long-term care facilities.
Previous experience cooking for the senior community is preferred but not required!
Location: Cerwydden Seniors Community - 3243 Cowichan Lake Rd, Duncan BC V9L 4B8
Position Details: Casual work, our scheduler will work with you closely to match your lifestyle.
Compensation: $29.24 per hour
Responsibilities
- Prepares assigned food items by following established menus, recipes, and quantity quotas, determining ingredients and quantities required and assembling ingredients and equipment required for cooking.
- Plans preparation and cooking schedule.
- Cooks and seasons assigned food and therapeutic diet items such as soups, sauces, salads, starches, meats, fish, poultry, vegetables, and desserts by methods/procedures such as roasting, frying, grilling steaming, poaching boiling, baking: tests food items for palatability and temperature and adjusts accordingly.
- Carves food items such as meat and poultry and controls portioning of food items to ensure recipe yield meets assigned quantity quotas.
- Maintains established food rotations in storage, to minimize spoilage and waste.
- Assigns tasks to designated Food Service Workers.
- Performs other related duties as assigned. The ideal candidate will have
- Food Safe certificate.
- Graduation from a recognized 12-month program in cooking or an equivalent combination education, training, and experience.
- One-year previous experience in a long-term care kitchen environment (preferred)
- WHIMS certificate
- Cultural education and experience are preferred
Job Type: Casual
Pay: $29.24 per hour
Application question(s):
- This position is located in Duncan, are you able to commute to the location?
- What is your availability as a casual?
Experience:
- Cooking: 1 year (preferred)
Licence/Certification:
- Food Handler Certification (preferred)
Work Location: In person
