Cook

We want you to join our team at **Points West Living Drayton Valley** A place you can hang your hat and call home. We value the power of diversity and inclusion Connecting Care is a merging of service groups into one cohesive company. We provide care, hospitality, and operational services in seniors’ residences, as well as develop seniors’ communities.

**The Opportunity**:
The **Cook** role will be serving the town** of Drayton Valley.** This role is responsible for ensuring top resident care is priority, with an elevated level of focus in time management and hospitality.

**Foundational knowledge and experience to grow from**:

- You stay cool as a cucumber
- A patient team player, motivator, mentor, and professional role model
- Able to coordinate various business activities within the vision, objectives and guiding philosophy of Connecting Care
- A strong personal commitment to Person Directed Care approaches. Current familiarity with the Eden Alternative Philosophy and the Domains of Well-Being is preferred
- Strives to attain excellence in Resident, family member and employee care partner satisfaction
- Friendly with a sense of humor and the utmost respect for all persons
- Knowledge of supportive living services, assessment and care planning
- Attains and maintains ongoing compliance with appropriate local, provincial and federal regulatory standards
- Demonstrates strength in building partnerships with Residents, family members, employee care partners, volunteers, external care partners and the community at large to ensure the vibrancy of our community
- Flexible, willingness to prioritize and re-adjust routines, open to change for the benefit of the community
- Strong time management skills
- Supporting the Food Services Supervisor in supervising/managing the activities of the food services team and facilitating effective two-way communication
- Excellent problem solving and conflict resolution skills, and ability to calmly deal effectively with difficult or crisis situations
- Ongoing monitoring and continuous quality improvement
- Demonstrates an awareness of accident and injury prevention and adheres to safe work practices. Is mindful of the psychological health and safety of our employee care partners
- Auditing and collecting ongoing resident/family feedback. Including but not limited to the Resident Food Services committee
- Ensuring adequate & competent care partners are available to provide the food services that are required within the Community
- Supporting the Food Services Supervisor in coordinating & overseeing care partner planning and service time scheduling as per budget guidelines, including overtime and time off approval and vacation requests
- Assisting in identifying and addressing unmet needs within the Community
- Attending and actively participating on various committees/meetings providing advice/ input
- Performs other services/tasks/duties related to employee care partner role as assigned

**Skills and key deliverables that will take you further**:

- Grade 12 Diploma or recognized equivalent is required
- Formal Food Service training (Red Seal from an approved Food Service School) and/or experience in the Food Service Industry would be an asset
- Supervision/leadership/educator/facilitation/resolution/investigation experience required
- Food Safe Certificate
- First Aid and CPR

**Why join our team?**
- A competitive wage
- Opportunity for professional growth
- Benefits program
- RRSP program with employer matching
- Looking for a happy corporate culture? The term staff is not used here, we are Employee Care Partners