Company:
CareCorp Seniors Services
Details:
Position Summary
With the direction of the CareCorp Support Services Manager or designate the CareCorp Cook prepares assigned food items by methods/procedures such as roasting, frying, grilling steaming, poaching, boiling and baking. This position works in a fast-paced environment to promote a harmonious, high performance work culture that employs engaged and committed employees.
Key Duties & 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 and bulk rethermalization; 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 in order to minimize spoilage and waste.
- Assigns tasks to designated Food Service Workers.
- Performs other related duties as assigned.
Working Conditions
- Extensive walking and standing with some lifting and working in awkward positions required
- Exposure to heat from kitchen area
- Exposure to noise, cleaning agents, and wet floors
- Some stress related to time pressures, deadlines and reliance on outside services for reqular delivery of food items
- Occasional irregular and extended hours and the requirement to be on-call
- Lifting alone, maximum 50 lbs., (5 -- 25 lbs usual)
- Pushing/pulling, using wheeled equipment such as carts, trolleys with contents that weigh a maximum of 100 lbs.
Qualifications & Experience:
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
- Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing.
- Ability to deal with others effectively.
- Physical ability to carry out the duties of the position.
- Ability to organize work.
- Ability to support a respectful workplace environment.
- Ability to operate related equipment.
Qualifications and Competencies
- Graduation from a recognized 12 month program in cooking or an equivalent combination education, training and experience. Prefer one year previous experience.
- Food Safe certificate
- WHIMS certificate