The Food Service Worker is a key member of the SHOAL Centre’s hospitality team, supporting an active senior community through highquality meal service and a welcoming dining experience. Reporting to the Manager of the SHOAL Centre, this role provides lunch and dinner food service to Assisted Living residents, and the community in a dining room setting. This role supports catered special events, and helps ensure that residents, activity centre participants, and community visitors enjoy a warm, safe, and engaging environment.

**Days/Hours of Work:**Variable shifts.

**Union:**BCGEU Stand Alone

PRIMARY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Maintain a safe and supportive work environment for volunteers, members, residents, and community members
• Setting up dining areas, delivering and putting away supplies, taking meal orders and serving food and beverages
• Deliver catering to and from events within the SHOAL Centre as required
• Accept payment for meals and/or initial Dinner and/or Lunch meal cards
• Perform limited food preparation and make tea and coffee
• Wash dishes using a commercial dishwasher and/or by hand
• Perform cleaning duties such as sweeping and mopping floors, cleaning sinks and counters, cleaning the kitchen and storage areas and removing garbage
• Maintain cleanliness and order in the walk-in cooler and freezer. Check the temperature and alert the Manager if not in the proper range
• Store and check supply, and perform inventory control, including rotation and expiry checks
• Perform other related duties as assigned

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Grade 12 diploma or equivalent experience
• Experience in a customer service environment
• Experience within a seniors' facility or experience in a related setting is an asset
• First Aid and CPR certification an asset
• WHMIS Certificate (Completion upon Hiring
• Serving it Right (completion upon hiring)
• Food Safe Certification (completion upon hiring and renewed every 3 years)

SKILLS AND ABILITIES:

• Ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing
• Ability to organize work and implement on time
• Strong customer service skills
• Ability to work independently and as a member of a team

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

Beacon Community Services serves vulnerable populations, including seniors, people with disabilities and children. Protecting these people and our teams on whom they rely is critical to us. Accordingly:

• All successful applicants must consent to a Solicitor General’s Criminal Record Check.
• All successful applicants are required to disclose their COVID-19 vaccination status upon hire. Depending on future public health developments, Beacon may implement a vaccination requirement as a condition of ongoing employment for all our workplaces.

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