About the Role
Southbridge Care Homes provides exceptional acquisition, management, and redevelopment services for long-term care homes and retirement communities across Ontario. Our mission is to maintain a best-in-class portfolio that consistently delivers excellence in care and services while ensuring economic sustainability.
Responsibilities
- Prepares and serves food for residents, including complex meal preparation like dinners, sauces, and desserts.
- Reviews menus and prepares equipment and supplies for food preparation.
- Prepares food and nourishments following standardized recipes and production sheets.
- Provides for prescribed diets, including variations in texture.
- Ensures meals are served on time, at appropriate temperatures, and in portion-controlled quantities.
- Makes necessary menu changes in the absence of the Dietary Manager and records them.
- Monitors food supplies, kitchen equipment operation, and alerts the Manager of any issues.
- Recommends corrective actions for operational problems.
- Directs Dietary Aides in basic food preparation and serving activities.
- Assumes responsibility for routine departmental operations in the absence of the Dietary Manager.
- Maintains required records, including menu changes and temperature checks.
- Cooperates with other departments to meet resident needs.
Requirements
- Chef training or culinary management certificate or diploma meeting OLTCH Act requirements.
- Certificate of qualification as a Cook meeting OLTCH Act requirements.
- Post-secondary diploma in food and nutrition management or a post-secondary degree in food and nutrition.
- Demonstrated experience in institutional, health care, restaurant, or hospitality cooking.
- Ability to work safely, following established safety practices and procedures.
- Ability to read and write English, and understand moderately complex verbal and written instructions in English.
- Proven ability to provide direction and lead others within a busy environment.
- A negative vulnerable sector check completed within 6 months of start date.
- Completion of a 2 Step TB Skin test within the last 12 months of start date.
Skills
- “Red Seal” certification preferred
- Experience in institutional large quantity cooking preferred
Location
- Etobicoke, ON
Work Type
- Temporary Part-Time
Experience Level
- Demonstrated and proven experience in institutional, health care, restaurant, or hospitality cooking
Education Level
- Chef training or culinary management certificate or diploma
- Certificate of qualification as a Cook
- Post-secondary diploma in food and nutrition management
- Post-secondary degree in food and nutrition
Salary/Compensations
- starting at $25.95
About the Company
- Southbridge Care Homes provides exceptional acquisition, management, and redevelopment services for long-term care homes and retirement communities across Ontario.
- Our mission is to maintain a best-in-class portfolio that consistently delivers excellence in care and services while ensuring economic sustainability.
Equal Opportunity
- Southbridge welcomes those applicants with disability related needs and those whom a need for accommodation in the recruitment process. Please provide notice of your need for accommodation to the hiring manager upon scheduling of an interview.
- At Southbridge, we care about your privacy and strive to protect Applicant Data throughout the recruitment process. To that end, information that we gather from applicants via job postings, is used solely for the purposes of recruiting and hiring.
