COOK

Home: Craiglee Nursing Home

Location: 102 Craiglee Dr, Scarborough, ON M1N 2M7

Pay an hour: $24.33

Position: Cook

Weekly Hours: 15 hours

Shift: 6:00am - 2:00pm

Status: Temporary Vacancy with an end date Feb. 28th, 2027

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.

Reports to: Food Service Manager

The Cook reviews menus The cook reviews menus, prepares food following standardized recipes and production sheets in the Home.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Reviewing menus, preparing food following standardized recipes and production sheets.
• In the absence of the Food Services Manager assists with their responsibilities.
• Monitor quality and quantity of food supplies and recommend corrective action when need be regarding quality.
• Coaches Dietary Aides in basic food preparation procedures and in serving activities; assumes responsibility for routine departmental operations in the absence of the Food Services Manager, including staff replacements and service calls for malfunctioning equipment.
• Maintains all required records and cooperates with other departments to meet resident needs.

Qualifications

Must meet one of the three (3) following qualification scenarios:

• Chef training or culinary management certificate/diploma from a program that meets the requirements of the Ontario Long Term Care Act; or
• Certificate of qualification as a Cook issued by an authority meeting the requirements of the Ontario Long Term Care Act, or
• Post-secondary diploma in food and nutrition management or a post-secondary degree in food and nutrition

Additional qualifications include:

• Red Seal Cook Trade Certification preferred.
• Experience in institutional large quantity cooking preferred.
• Excellent communication skills, written and verbal.
• Proven ability to provide direction and lead others within a busy environment.
• Must provide a current Safe Food Handling Certificate issued by the TBDHU.
• Must possess/able to obtain a current Vulnerable Sector Criminal Record Check.

We would like to thank all applicants for your interest in working as part of our team! Only those applicants selected to move forward in the recruitment process will be contacted.

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.

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