The salary range for this position is CAD $27.56 - $27.56 / hour
Job Summary
We currently have exciting opportunities for Casual – Cook I to join our team at Royal Columbian Hospital located in New Westminster, B.C. We hire great people for outstanding jobs and need your help to expand the ability to deliver prompt and professional service.
Come work with us!
Joining our team offers you opportunities to work in a rapidly growing organization with health professionals who are excellent in their respective fields, career growth and advancement, a competitive compensation package (including four weeks of vacation to start, comprehensive health benefits, and pension plan), and the rewarding opportunity to make a difference every single day in health care.
Fraser Health values diversity in the work force and strives to maintain an environment of Respect, Caring and Trust. Fraser Health’s hiring practices aspire to ensure all individuals are treated in an inclusive, equitable, and culturally safe manner.
Detailed Overview
Under the general supervision of the Head Cook, the Cook I rethermalizes and/or cooks assigned food items for daily and inventory requirements by following established menus, recipes, quantity quotas and food production sheets. Tests and adjusts food items for palatability. Ensures ready food inventory items are accurately packaged, labeled and stored.
Responsibilities
- Cooks or rethermalizes assigned food items by methods such as heating, reheating, boiling, frying, grilling, steaming, baking, whipping and deep fat frying to meet daily and inventory requirements. Evaluates final product for palatability, consistency, temperature and adjusts as necessary.
- Plans daily cooking schedule to minimize time between completion of cooking and serving. Ensures food items are served according to established standards.
- Prepares therapeutic diet items according to production needs.
- Carves meat and poultry to ensure recipe yield and appropriate portion sizes.
- Prepares, portions and pans food items to ensure recipe yield meets assigned quantity quotas.
- Maintains established food rotations in storage to minimize spoilage and waste.
- Ensures leftover food is properly labeled and stored.
- Requisitions and receives stock and supplies from internal stores and fridges as required.
- Ensures ready food is packaged, labeled and portioned correctly by checking accuracy of weights and labels.
- Prepares salad and sandwich items and cold plates.
- Participates in recipe development and menu planning.
- Performs other related duties as assigned.
Qualifications
Education and Experience
Graduation from a recognized program in quantity cooking or an equivalent combination of education, training and experience.
Successful completion of a recognized Food Safe Certificate.
Skills and Abilities
- Ability to deal effectively with others.
- Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing.
- Physical ability to carry out the duties of the position.
- Ability to organize work.
- Ability to operate related equipment.
About Fraser Health
Fraser Health is the heart of health care for over two million people in Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley in British Columbia, Canada, on the traditional, ancestral and unceded lands of the Coast Salish and Nlaka’pamux Nations and is home to 32 First Nations within the Fraser Salish region.
People - those we care for and those who care for them - are at the heart of everything we do. Our hospital and community-based services are delivered by a team of 48,000+ staff, medical staff and volunteers.
We are committed to planetary health and value diversity in the work force. We strive to maintain an environment of respect, caring and trust. Fraser Health’s hiring practices aspire to ensure all individuals are treated in an inclusive, equitable and culturally safe manner.
Together, we are the heart of health care.
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