Cook - Sesisej

**Department**: Child, Youth, and Family Services

**Location**: 7420 Veyaness Rd, Saanichton

**Days/Hours of Work**: Monday - Friday 7:30am to 3:30pm (37.5 hours) (Full Time)

**Union**: Exempt

Beacon is hiring for a brand-new **nature based** child care center that will create 84 licensed childcare spaces, including full-time infant toddler care, full-time and part-time group care (ages three to five) and a unique evening after-school program.

The name of the center **SESISEJ** (SAW-she-such), which translates to** **Little Fores**t**, which was gifted to School District 63 by the WSÁNE Elders.

The **SESISEJ** Childcare Centre, is centered on “the WSÁNE ways of knowing and being" and will assists children in establishing a sense of community, place and belonging while supporting their growth and learning needs. Follow this **link** for more information on this exciting new center.

Our team is the heart of our community’s well-being and Beacon’s success. We offer a competitive salary, comprehensive benefits package, and a rewarding, stimulating career environment where your skills, knowledge, and work make a difference every day.

**JOB SUMMARY**:
Reporting to the Facility Site Supervisor, the Cook is responsible for preparing and delivering nutritionally balanced meals for children attending the new SESISEJ child care centre.

**DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES**:

- Provide nutritionally balanced morning meal lunch and snacks based on meeting the unique nutritional needs of children attending SESISEJ
- Assists in creating a 4-week rotational menu using the current Canadian Food Guide
- Purchase and organize food in a timely and well accounted for manner
- Follows sanitation guidelines, schedules and procedures.
- Oversee clean up while maintaining health standards in public kitchen,
- Performs all and any combination of following duties to maintain kitchen work areas, including but not limited to: kitchen equipment, kitchen space, appliances, cupboards as well as utensils in clean and orderly fashion: Sweeps floors, washes worktables, cupboards, walls, refrigerators, stove and freezers daily and maintains/defrosts fridge/freezers as required.
- Loads/cleans dirty dishes from morning meal and lunch into commercial sanitizer and returns clean contents of sanitizer to its location upon completion of cleaning cycle.
- Checks and documents the temperatures of freezers and fridges twice daily, ensuring that they are meeting the required temperatures. Reports to Manager if temperatures are not and follows guidelines if temperatures are not being met.
- Checks and records internal temperatures of prepared food before being served.
- Maintains safe hot handling food temperatures.
- Keeps track of food and labels food. Uses the first in, first out system.
- Provides weekly grocery needs to SESISEJ Facility Site Supervisor.
- Follows Beacon policies, philosophies and procedures.
- Is aware of and maintains Child Care Licensing and Community Kitchen Regulations.
- Is aware of and maintains Food Premises Regulations.
- Is aware of and maintains Safe Work practices.

**QUALIFICATIONS and EXPERIENCE**
- Experience in Kitchen settings and ability to prepare quality food for children age newborn to ten years.
- Previous experience working with children, families and working within child care settings.
- Valid First Aid certificate, as outlined by BC Child Care Regulations (to be renewed upon expiry).
- Valid Food Safe certificate (to be renewed every 3 years)

**SKILLS and ABILITIES**:

- Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing.
- An energetic, nurturing and sensitive attitude that encourages development.
- Ability to work individually and as a member of a team.
- Ability to maintain professional composure and attitude, particularly in high stress situations.
- Skilled at creating respectful workplace relationships.
- Skilled in the use of MS 365 (Word, Excell, Outlook, Teams)
- Ability to work and communicate effectively as a team member.

**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.