Server - Dining Assistant - 0.339 FTE - working 26.25 hours bi-weekly

Job Title: Dining Assistant

Job Location: Bergen Gardens (1475 Molson)

Reporting Manager: Home Environment Director

Job Summary:

Reporting to the Home Environment Director, the Dining Assistant will be responsible for caring for the nutritional needs of our elders by serving meals in a courteous and prompt manner. The Dining Assistant ensures that food is served following approved food handling techniques to ensure optimum nutritional quality and assists in maintaining adequate inventories and ensuring proper quality.

WHO WE ARE:

Bergen Gardens, located in North Kildonan, is a unique Seniors Community where those who live, visit and work here experience a culture of creativity, choice, and well-being. Using a citizenship person-directed philosophy, we are taking the focus away from personal care homes as biomedical solutions to a relationship approach where both Care Partners (staff) and citizens can build community together.

Bergen Gardens offers a friendly and positive work environment. We believe that when people are surrounded with opportunities to maintain connections with pets, nature, and people of all ages, they will continue to thrive and grow as a person.

Some of the perks that are included in working at Bergen Gardens include competitive wages, a health care spending account, group health benefits, long-term disability, life insurance, and a group DPSP/RRSP matching program. We want work to be a source of pride and personal fulfillment for our staff as they contribute to our joint success

WHAT YOU'LL DO:

• Care for the nutritional needs of our elders by serving meals in a courteous and prompt manner. Make recommendations to the Home Environment Manager or Home Environment Director for changes to the menu based on customer feedback.
• Ensure that food is served following approved food handling techniques to ensure optimum nutritional quality, flavor, appearance, and proper temperature.
• Make efficient and proper use of food, dietary supplies, dishes, and cutlery to control costs and assists in maintaining adequate inventories and ensure proper quality.
• Ensure that proper storage procedures are followed for food purchases and other supplies when deliveries come to the home. Communicate any problems with the order to the Home Environment Manager or Home Environment Director.
• Advise the Home Environment Manager or Home Environment Director of the need for new equipment and/or utensils and food purchase changes.
• Serve food for special events in the home as required.
• Report the need for repairs in the kitchen promptly to the Maintenance Technician.
• Endeavour to be fiscally responsible with the ingredients and equipment that are in the workspace to ensure that funds can be spent sensibly.
• May be serving beverages, meals, or desserts in the dining room or in the Café area.
• Ensure that beverages are made for each meal and assist in ensuring that food is plated and ready to serve.
• Other duties as assigned.

What You Need to Be Successful:

• Completion or currently working towards Grade 12 high school diploma or equivalent.
• Minimum 3 years of relevant experience.
• Currently hold a Food Handling Certificate.
• Ability to demonstrate empathy, concern, and interest in providing quality care and service to elders.
• Ability to communicate with well-developed written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to fluently read, write, and speak English.
• Ability to speak another language is considered an asset.
• Ability to interrelate well with others and establish positive relationships with elders, their families, other staff members, volunteers, and the public.
• Ability to adapt quickly in a progressive change-oriented environment.
• Maintains interest in learning more about person-directed care.
• Ability to manage the associated physical, emotional, and psychological demands of the work involved.
• Has an excellent understanding of computers and/or POS systems needed in the everyday work of a dining attendant
• Has a demonstrated working knowledge of basic math skills. Previous cash-handling experience would be considered an asset.

Are you excited about new ways of engaging and caring for seniors? If so, you could be a great fit for Bergen Gardens.

Preferred

• Food Handling Certificate
• Grade 12 or GED
• Smart Choices Certificate