Hospitality Worker / Cook’s Helper – Casual

Job title: Hospitality Worker / Cook’s Helper – Casual

Job description: Care to join us?

If you are a caring and skilled individual who enjoys working with seniors, we want to hear from you!

We are looking for a casual hospitality worker / cook’s helper for our Brandt’s Creek Mews long-term senior care community in Kelowna, BC.

Why work for Vantage Living?

100% Employer funded benefit plan available for full and part-time staff who work more than 20 hours/week.
Flexible schedules to support work-life balance.
Locally owned and operated.
Beautiful, modern communities.
A fun and vibrant company culture.

Position Overview as a Cook’s Helper:

Under the direction of the Cook/Chef or Site Leader, assists in preparing ingredients required for meals and catering orders;
Washes, cuts and peels fruits and vegetables. Weighs, measures and arranges various ingredients. Carries out work by following standardized recipes, daily production sheets, café orders & catering requisitions;
Transports food in hot carts to neighbourhoods, sets up steam tables and serves meals;
Cleans all food service equipment in preparation and service areas; washes dishes, pots, pans and utensils used in preparation and service of meals; Segregates and removes garbage, and steam-cleans or hoses garbage containers;
Cleans food service & dining room areas within each neighbourhood. Clears tables, loads/unloads dishwasher. Cleans & sanitizes counter-tops & small appliances in the neighbourhoods and restocks food & beverages ensuring proper inventory rotation methods are employed;
Forms positive relationships with clients & families to enhance the dining experience. Gathers client feedback related to food choices & reports it to the Chef/Cook to continuously improve food quality & service; and
Performs other duties as assigned.

Position Overview as a Hospitality Worker:

Delivers exemplary housekeeping services within client suites, amenity spaces & common/administrative areas;
Schedules cleaning around client needs & requests;
Responds to non-scheduled requests for housekeeping & laundry assistance;
Following established weekly schedules, cleans & sanitizes common areas, offices, and amenity & support spaces;
Under direction of the Building Services Manager performs deep cleaning functions of flooring, carpet, walls, furnishings & window coverings;
Following infection prevention & control protocols, collects and transports soiled linens and personal laundry from each neighbourhood to commercial laundry area;
Washes, dries, sorts & folds flat linens, towels & personal laundry;
Following established inventory ‘top up’ levels, prepares stocked linen carts for each neighbourhood ensuring rotation of clean linen stock; and
Returns clean personal laundry to each neighbourhood.

To Be Considered:

Experience assisting in the preparation of meals in a health care environment an asset;
Familiar with provincial health & safety regulations;
Ability to effectively organize work to respond to the needs of a high stress environment; and
Current Food Safe certificate Level 1 – Basic (or equivalent); and
Previous hotel, senior home or commercial housekeeping experience.

We thank all applicants for their interest. Only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

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