Casual Cook

4 weeks ago

Brentwood Bay, Canada Beacon Community Services Full time

Join Beacon Community Services as a Casual Cook, a great opportunity to work with a collaborative team to provide exceptional food and dining experiences to residents. Bring your passion for cooking to bring joy to our residents with home-cooked meals. This casual position will provide vacation and sick leave coverage with the opportunity to work at several of our sites, including Brentwood House and Sluggett House in Brentwood Bay, and Parry Place Assisted Living in Victoria.

**Benefits Include**:

- Making a difference in people's lives every day
- Competitive wage
- Flexible schedule

**Days/Hours of Work**: Will be variable

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Reporting to the Manager, the Cook prepares home-cooked meals to be served family-style in a bright, attractive dining room. They will contribute to the home-like, reassuring environment that encourages residents' participation. This casual position will have the flexibility to work between three sites to provide coverage for vacations and sick leave. Brentwood and Slugget House have recently been unionized and will be covered by a BCNU collective agreement, once that agreement has been ratified.

**DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES**:

- Prepares and uses a dietician-approved 4-week cycle menu which includes 2-3 meals and 2 snacks daily, meeting Canada’s Food Guide to Healthy Eating requirements
- Serves family-style meals and strives to make meals appealing and mealtimes enjoyable
- Maintains kitchen, dining room, living room, common areas and food storage areas in a tidy, hygienic and safe manner.
- Monitors food storage and stand times and temperatures according to licensing and food-safe requirements. Maintains sanitation of food preparation areas.
- Contributes to the development of, and ongoing changes to the Resident Care Plan, including attending and providing input into planning meetings and family conferences. Encourages and works with other team members to facilitate resident participation in activities of daily living.
- Participates in continuous quality improvement and program evaluation activities, education sessions, team conferences, meetings and committees.
- Uses designated protocols to ensure unusual or serious incidents are managed and reported promptly.
- Orders all food supplies and related products as needed.
- Provides for individualized resident needs as per resident’s nutritional care plan such as; texture modifications, fluid consistency modifications, food allergies and restrictions, and therapeutic diets.
- Maintains adequate supply of tools and equipment for food preparation, service and dining.
- Encourages and works with other team members to facilitate resident participation in activities of daily living.
- Documents and updates all relevant information according to site procedures.
- Assists in the orientation and continuing education of new staff, students and other members of the Health Care Team.
- Performs other related duties as required.

**EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE**:

- Grade 12 Education or equivalent
- 2 years of kitchen experience
- Cooking or food services certificate
- Preference will be given to applicants with previous experience cooking in Long Term Care or Assisted Living
- FOODSAFE Certificate
- First Aid with CPR Certificate

**SKILLS AND ABILITIES**:

- Ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing, with residents, families, co-workers, members of the multidisciplinary team and the public
- Ability to organize and prioritize workload
- Ability to operate related equipment
- Physical ability to carry out the duties of the position
- Versatile culinary skills
- Ability to adapt to different menus and dietary requirements

**ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:?**

Beacon Community Services serves vulnerable populations including seniors, people with disabilities and children. Protecting these people and our teams on whom they rely on is critical to us. Accordingly:?
- All successful applicants must consent to a Solicitor General’s Criminal Record Check.?
- All successful applicants are required to disclose their COVID-19 vaccination status upon hire. Vaccination is a requirement in some of our facilities. Depending on future public health developments, Beacon may implement a vaccination requirement as a condition of ongoing employment for all our workplaces.

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