Cook 1/dietary Aide

**Competition Number**
- 2025-822-010

**Job Type**
- Part-time Permanent

**Hours**
- 0.63 FTE

**Classification**
- COOK1/DIETA

**Department**
- Nutrition and Environmental Services

**Salary**
- Cook 1 - $30.1598 to $30.8549 per hour

Dietary Aide - $26.3044 to $27.7278 per hour

As per CUPE LOCAL 822 Collective Agreement

**Closing Date**
- Wednesday, February 19, 2025

**Description**

Do you thrive on variety and diversity of tasks and have great attention to details and instruction? If so, then this is combined role for you This position offers tasks in an assortment of areas including the preparation, service and distribution of regular and special diets and the handling of food in accordance with sanitary regulations for patients, visitors and staff. The dietary aide/cook regularly interacts with patients through tray delivery and removal to nursing stations and patient’s rooms, assists in the cafeteria building rapport with internal and external visitors, and completes catering duties and ware washing responsibilities as a valued member of the nutrition and environmental services team.

**Why Work with LWDH? In this position, there are many benefits to joining our team**:

- Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan enrolment, one of Canada’s largest defined benefit pension plans that includes inflation protections, survivor benefits, buyback options, and early retirement
- Pay in lieu of vacation and benefits provided
- A third party partnered, self-directed and initiated benefits package through Health Care Providers (HCP) Group Insurance is provided that includes customizable health and dental plans, life insurance, long-term disability benefits (LTD), and accidental death, disease and dismemberment (ADD&D) based on package eligibility
- Access to staff physiotherapy, onsite gym, Employee Assistance Program, staff wellness initiatives, and much more

**Qualifications**
- Secondary school diploma or equivalent
- Minimum Assistant Cook Certification
- Minimum one year experience in institutional or commercial food handling and food preparation
- Ability to perform routine tasks (including but not limited to pot washing, dishes, sweeping, mopping, cleaning, food prep)
- Ability to work in accordance with safe food handling practices
- Effective verbal and written communication skills
- Must be physically able to stand, reach, bend and lift
- Knowledge of WHMIS
- Knowledge of therapeutic diets preferred
- Reliable attendance record
- We thank all applicants for their interest but advise that only those selected for further consideration will be contacted. First consideration will be given to current internal employees of LWDH._
- Qualified applicants may be considered for other comparable positions or within the same classification other than this posted position. _
- LWDH is committed to the principles of equity, diversity, and inclusion and belongingness in our operations, throughout our workplace, and seeks to employ individuals who are committed to and value these principles._
- We believe in and promote the rights of all persons with disabilities as outlined in the Ontario Human Rights Code and the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA 2005) and its related Accessibility Standards Regulations. To meet this responsibility, LWDH will make appropriate accommodations, including alternative formats available. Please inform Human Resources of any accommodation(s) at any point throughout the recruitment and selection process to ensure your equal participation._
- For more information or to request an accommodation please contact the Human Resources Department at 807-468-9861 ext. 2393_