AMENDMENT: Closing date extended due to OPS Careers system outage.
Child and Parent Resource Institute (CPRI) provides trauma-informed and highly specialized services for children and youth of Ontario who experience complex and long-standing combinations of mental health difficulties and/or developmental challenges where these difficulties significantly impact functioning in multiple areas such as home, school and community and appropriate community interventions have not produced the desired response. CPRI provides services that are based on a partnership model with community service providers. Our services include Assessment, Consultation, Treatment, Research and Education in both outpatient and inpatient services. CPRI is looking for a motivated team player with food service expertise to fill the role of On-Call Cook where you will prepare and serve meals to residents.
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We are committed to build a workforce that reflects the communities we serve and to promote a diverse, anti-racist, inclusive, accessible, merit-based, respectful and equitable workplace.
We invite all interested individuals to apply and encourage applications from people with disabilities, Indigenous, Black, and racialized individuals, as well as people from a diversity of ethnic and cultural origins, sexual orientations, gender identities and expressions.
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What can I expect to do in this role?
• Prepare meals for residents including specialized diets
• Preparing food for delivery to residential areas
• Maintain work area in a clean and sanitary manner
• Complete weekly inventory and receive weekly grocery, produce, bread and milk orders
• Ensures that residents are provided with safe, nutritious quality meals in the most effective manner
PLEASE NOTE:• This position is irregularly scheduled, on-call working from 0 to 40 hours per week with no guaranteed minimum number of hours per week. Hours of work will be between Monday to Friday during the days.
• This position will require you to perform a variety of physically demanding, routine, manual tasks relating to the preparation and receiving of food items
• This position will require you to drive a motorized cart
How do I qualify?
Mandatory
• You have a Cook's certificate issued by the Ministry of Labour, Training and Skills Development OR equivalent acceptable experience
Specialized Knowledge and Experience
• You have training and experience in cooking and food services in order to prepare a variety of meals according to recipe and menu requirements
• You have knowledge of diet accommodations (i.e. medical, religious, lifestyle) and catering
• You are able to supervise meal production in the absence of the Manager
• You have knowledge of safe food handling techniques and hazard analysis and critical control points (HACCP) requirements including proper cleaning/sanitizing techniques
• You have knowledge of workplace health and safety standards
Other Essential Skills
• You have communication skills and are able to follow and carry out specific verbal and written instructions
• You have problem-solving skills to conduct inventory of food items, receive orders, and complete temperature checking
• You are able to plan, prepare, and ensure special diets meet clients' dietary requirements
All Ontario Public Service external job advertisements are posted in English and French. To confirm the language requirements of a job, check the "language of position" information at the top of each job ad. For all positions, candidates will be assessed in English, the business language of the Ontario Public Service. For English/French designated bilingual positions, candidates will also be assessed through French-language proficiency testing.
Toutes les offres d'emploi externes de la fonction publique de l'Ontario sont affichées en anglais et en français. Pour connaître les exigences linguistiques, vérifiez les renseignements sur la « langue du poste » figurant dans le haut de chaque offre d'emploi. Pour tous les postes, l'évaluation des candidates et candidats se fera en anglais, la langue usuelle de la fonction publique de l'Ontario. En ce qui concerne les postes désignés bilingues, la maîtrise du français des candidates et candidats sera également évaluée.