Deliver food services as an Institutional Cook, combining meal preparation with sanitation, quality inspections, and secure kitchen procedures. This relief position supports operational needs without guaranteed hours and requires mandatory shift work.

Working under the Kitchen Manager, you will prepare approved meals for persons in custody, staff, patients, and visitors. You will inspect incoming supplies, maintain food preparation areas, protect equipment and materials, and ensure kitchen workers follow safety, sanitation, and hygiene standards. Experience in a secure setting is an asset.

Key Responsibilities:

- Inspect food supplies entering the production area
- Ensure equipment and preparation areas remain clean
- Store food requiring special temperature controls safely




- Conduct food, cleanliness, and security quality checks
- Ensure kitchen workers follow safety and hygiene standards

Requirements:

- Red Seal Journeyman Certificate and four years’ cooking experience
- Completed Food Handler's Course
- Secure-environment experience considered an asset
- First Aid and CPR certification considered an asset
- Ability to stand, walk, and lift heavy objects

Bring institutional cooking, food inspection, sanitation, and kitchen oversight experience to this relief Cook assignment.

📌 Institutional Cook Food Services (Canada)
🏢 The Government of Nova Scotia
📍 Canada