Cook (Casual)

**Casual Food Services Cook**

**Status**:Casual, On-call (Varied Hours) - must be available to work weekends and holidays

BCGEU Community Subsector Grid 9

This role is designed for our **new state-of-the-art kitchen facility**. You should possess the ability to prepare, cook and serve meals according to established menus. Direct client and volunteers assigned to kitchen duties. Maintain inventory controls and any records that related to menus, recipes, and supplies.

**Duties and Responsibilities**:

- Prepare, cook and serve meals and snacks according to rotating established menus and recipes, by performing duties such as planning food preparation and cooking schedules, cooking, roasting, grilling, baking, testing for palatability and carving
- Modifies and adjusts established menus as necessary
- Directs assigned clients and volunteers as to their kitchen/dining room duties. Ensure that assigned clients and volunteers follow their duty descriptions
- Performs cleaning duties such as cleaning food preparation equipment, sweeping and mopping floors, cleaning sicks and counters, cleaning kitchen and storage areas such as walls, ovens and freezers, and removing garbage.
- Washes, scrubs and rinses pots, pans, dishes and utensils by hand, dishwasher and/or potwasher.
- Maintain inventory controls on food and kitchen supplies. Rotate as necessary
- Monitors functioning of equipment and reports any malfunctions and maintenance and repair requirements to Maintenance Worker
- Receives supplies, checks invoices against orders and good received, stores supplies, and updates inventory records. Refers problems to Food Service Supervisor.
- Completes and maintains any records and documentation that relates to menus, recipes and records of client preferences, allergies and special dietary needs.
- Report any difficulties with clients or volunteers to Food Services Supervisor
- Perform other duties as required

**Skills and Abilities**:

- Able to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing
- Able to deal with others effectively
- Physical ability to carry out the duties of the position
- Ability to operate related equipment
- Ability to organize and prioritize
- Able to work with minimum supervision

**Qualifications and Requirements**:

- Grade 12
- Professional Cook Training Certificate or other qualifications determined to be reasonable and relevant to the level of work
- Food Safe Level 1
- Basic First Aid - CPR
- WHMIS 2015
- Valid BC driver’s license
- Recent related experience of 1 year
- Or an equivalent combination of education, training and experience

**About Kinghaven Peardonville House Society**:
Kinghaven Treatment Centre was established in 1971 as MSA Halfway House. Over the past 45 years it has evolved into one of the country’s premier intensive residential treatment centers having served in excess of 28,000 adult men who present with problematic use of mood-altering substances. Located in the tranquil Fraser Valley of British Columbia, our campus also includes the new George Schmidt Centre, a 31 unit second-stage housing facility.

Peardonville House Treatment Centre was founded in 1987 as an adult women’s treatment facility to serve the ever increasing demand of services for women in addiction. In 1990, at the request of the provincial government, the “Moms and Kids” program was launched to allow women struggling with addiction to bring their under-school-age children to treatment with them and have them share in the residential recovery experience.

**Job Type**: Casual

**Salary**: $24.86-$26.51 per hour

Schedule:

- Day shift
- Holidays
- Weekends as needed

**Experience**:

- relevant: 1 year (preferred)
- Culinary: 2 years (preferred)
- cooking: 2 years (preferred)

Licence/Certification:

- Food Safe, SafeCheck, Food Handler or equivalent (preferred)
- Food Safety Certification (required)
- BC Driver's license (required)
- First Aid - CPR (preferred)

Work Location: In person