Child Care Kitchen Assistant

Job summary

The Kitchen Assistant is responsible for preparing and serving nutritious meals for children while maintaining kitchen safety and sanitation standards. Additionally, the role involves assisting teachers in classrooms when not performing kitchen-related duties.

Job details

Center: Traders, ON Pay Range: $17.60 - $18.00 per hour Job Type: Full-Time, Contract until end of April 30th, 2027 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 Kitchen Assistant, 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 Kitchen Assistant is responsible for preparing and serving nutritious meals for children while maintaining kitchen safety and sanitation standards. Additionally, the role involves assisting teachers in classrooms when not performing kitchen-related duties.

Requirements

Candidates should have effective time management skills and meet provincial requirements for childcare employment. Preferred qualifications include food handling certification, current First Aid and Infant Child CPR, and experience cooking for large groups.

Benefits

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

Listed skills

• Time management · Preferred
• First Aid · Preferred
• Food preparation · Preferred
• Cooking · Preferred

Other relevant skills

Identified from the job description. Confirm important requirements above.

• Food preparation
• Sanitization
• Time management
• Cooking
• Classroom assistance
• Dietary restriction management
• Dishwashing
• First aid
• Infant child CPR
• Child Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR)
• Meal Service
• First Aid
• Food Safety And Sanitation
• Time Management

Job areas

• Education
• Food & Beverage
• Social Services
• Kitchen Assistant
• Preschool / Childcare Teacher
• Early Childhood Educators
• Childcare Workers

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