Child Care Cook

Job summary

The cook is responsible for preparing and serving nutritious meals while maintaining kitchen safety and sanitization standards. Additionally, the role involves assisting teachers in classrooms and performing light cleaning and laundry duties.

Job details

Center: Leaside, ON Job Type: Full-Time Additional information: Our meals are catered at Leaside, so no cooking is required. The kitchen is located in the basement, and our centre has stairs. Kitchen staff must be comfortable carrying lunch bins up and down the stairs to serve our 8 classrooms. The role also includes light cleaning and weekly laundry duties. No evenings or weekends! Build your career in the early childhood education field and become a valued member of our team at BrightPath Kids! As a proud member of the Busy Bees global childcare community, we offer exceptional opportunities for your career to thrive. Join our diverse community of over 5,000 dedicated employees, and experience competitive pay and benefits, including a childcare discount. With our rapid growth, now is the perfect time to apply and shape an extraordinary future with us. Unleash your potential and join BrightPath! What will you be doing? As a Cook, you will prepare nutritious meals for breakfast, lunch, and snacks for the children in our care. When you are not preparing food, serving meals, or cleaning, you will work in the classrooms to assist our teachers. Responsibilities include: • Organizing orders for food as needed. • Serving meals from a catered service provided daily. • Ensuring safety and sanitization in the kitchen environment as per Public Health requirements. • Understanding dietary restrictions in centre for individual children. • Washing dishes after meals. • Other duties as assigned. Top Reasons to join BrightPath Kids: • We offer a 40% child care discount to ALL Full-time employees & 10% to Part-time so that your family can take advantage of our great learning environment! • We will support your long-term career goals by offering opportunities for professional development. • Full-time staff are eligible to participate in a retirement plan (RRSP) which offers a company match – this is free money! • Full-time and Part-time staff receive 6 days of sick time per calendar year. • Full-time staff are given 10 paid statutory holidays off. • Full-time staff are paid for at least 10 vacation days per calendar year. • Full-time staff are offered health insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance and life insurance. Requirements: • Food Handling Certification preferred • Meet province requirement for childcare employment • Current Standard First Aid and Infant Child CPR • Effective time management skills • Experience cooking for large groups would be an asset If this sounds like a good fit, we want to meet you! Please submit your application today.

What you’ll do

The cook is responsible for preparing and serving nutritious meals while maintaining kitchen safety and sanitization standards. Additionally, the role involves assisting teachers in classrooms and performing light cleaning and laundry duties.

Requirements

Candidates must meet provincial childcare employment requirements and hold current Standard First Aid and Infant Child CPR certifications. Food Handling Certification is preferred, and experience cooking for large groups is considered an asset.

Benefits

• Childcare discount
• Retirement plan
• Company match
• Sick time
• Paid statutory holidays
• Paid vacation days
• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Life insurance
• Professional development

Listed skills

• Time management · Preferred
• First Aid · Preferred
• Cleaning · Preferred
• Cooking · Preferred

Other relevant skills

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• Food handling
• Sanitization
• Time management
• Cooking
• Cleaning
• Laundry
• First aid
• Infant CPR
• Child care
• Dietary restriction management
• Child Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR)
• Meal Service
• First Aid
• Food Safety And Sanitation
• Time Management

Job areas

• Education
• Food & Beverage
• Social Services
• Child Care Professional
• Cook
• Cooks
• Cooks, Restaurant

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