Nothing brings people together like good food.

CareCorp Senior Services are 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 long term care facility, Cartier House

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

Facility address: 1419 Cartier Ave, Coquitlam BC V3K 2C6
Position details: Casual - Create & control your own schedule
Compensation: $29.24 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

Pay: $29.24 per hour

Advantages:

- Flexible schedule
- On-site parking

Application question(s):

- Do you have experience cooking for the senior community?
- As a casual, what days and times are you available to work?

Experience:

- cooking: 1 year (preferred)

Licence/Certification:

- Food Safety Certification (preferred)

Work Location: In person

📌 Cook (Casual) (Coquitlam)
🏢 Carecorp Seniors Services
📍 Coquitlam