Duncan, British Columbia (BC) CareCorp Seniors Services
CareCorp Senior Services is a trusted company who provide superior healthcare, food and support services to long-term care and assisted living facilities across BC.

We are looking for a Cook to join our amazing kitchen team in one of our beautiful assisted living and long-term care facilities.

Previous experience cooking for the senior community is preferred but not required!

Location: Cerwydden Seniors Community - 3243 Cowichan Lake Rd, Duncan BC V9L 4B8

Position Details: Whether you are looking for Full time, Part time, Casual work, our scheduler will work with you closely to match your lifestyle.

Compensation: $26.51 per hour

Responsibilities
Prepares assigned food items by following established menus, recipes, and quantity quotas, determining ingredients and quantities required and assembling ingredients and equipment required for cooking.
Plans preparation and cooking schedule.
Cooks and seasons assigned food and therapeutic diet items such as soups, sauces, salads, starches, meats, fish, poultry, vegetables, and desserts by methods/procedures such as roasting, frying, grilling steaming, poaching boiling, baking: tests food items for palatability and temperature and adjusts accordingly.
Carves food items such as meat and poultry and controls portioning of food items to ensure recipe yield meets assigned quantity quotas.
Maintains established food rotations in storage, to minimize spoilage and waste.
Assigns tasks to designated Food Service Workers.
Performs other related duties as assigned. The ideal candidate will have
Food Safe certificate.
Graduation from a recognized 12-month program in cooking or an equivalent combination education, training, and experience.
One-year previous experience in a long-term care kitchen environment (preferred)
WHIMS certificate
Cultural education and experience are preferred

The successful applicant for this job posting must provide satisfactory proof, or have such proof on file, that they have received the COVID-19 vaccination and any required COVID-19 booster vaccination. This requirement shall be waived if the applicant has not received the vaccination due to any legislated protected human rights grounds. In such a case, and upon presentation of sufficient proof, CareCorp shall make reasonable attempts to accommodate the applicant to carry out their role where possible recognizing that the health and safety of other employees and residents will be a priority.

Job Type: Casual

Salary: $26.51 per hour

Schedule:
8 hour shift
Day shift
Monday to Friday
Weekends as needed

Application question(s):
How soon can you start?
What is your availability for work?

Experience:
Cooking: 1 year (preferred)

Language:
English (preferred)

Licence/Certification:
Food Handler Certification (preferred)

Work Location: In person