SHANNEX

If you take pride in being compassionate, honest, professional, and safe, consider an exciting and rewarding career at Shannex. Our communities offer more than a place to work – they welcome and celebrate Great People who inspire meaningful connections while Leading the Way to Better Living™.
Through a new, innovative partnership with Nova Scotia Health (NSH), we are opening the first transitional care center in our province, in West Bedford. Shannex is the operating partner for the transitional care centre on behalf of Nova Scotia Health. You will have an opportunity to work in a facility with a purpose and design dedicated to providing care to NSH patients in central zone, who no longer require hospital care, but need services before they can safely return to their home and community.
We are searching for a Part time Cook to join our new Transitional Health Centre team based in Bedford, Nova Scotia.
The Cook will prepare meals for clients to meet established expectations of quality and service excellence.
The transitional care model supports NSH patients/families who require additional time, services, and support to transition back to home/community, by providing an alternate space with intentional programming, building design, and resource allocation to increase the probability of returning to their previous living situation.

REQUIREMENTS INCLUDE:

You will be service minded, results oriented, and positive towards change and innovation. You will be a team player who works collaboratively to deliver results and also have the ability to work autonomously. In addition, the selected candidate will have:

• High School diploma or equivalent education
• Journeyman Cooks papers from an accredited institution preferred
• CPR and Emergency First Aid certification
• Basics Food Safety Training/ Food Handlers Course
• Minimum one (1) year experience in volume food preparation in hospitality or healthcare
• Demonstrated experience working and communicating with internal and external customers to meet their needs in a polite, courteous, and cooperative manner
• Previous experience working with seniors in a Retirement Living or Long Term Care environment

ABOUT US

It all began in 1988 when our Founder, Joseph Shannon, purchased a single nursing home in his hometown of Sydney, Cape Breton. For more than three decades, Shannex has grown as a trusted provider of senior accommodations, services and care in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Ontario. Our industry-leading services are inspired by patients and delivered by Parkland Retirement Living and Lifestyle Residences, Shannex Enhanced Care, Faubourg du Mascaret, Care at Home team members and Transitional care who create an exceptional patient experience and a positive, fulfilling work environment where every voice matters.

• Panning and preparing meals according to established standards, procedure, recipes and menus.?
• Assisting with the preparation of catering services for internal and external events.
• Providing input to the Executive Chef and/or Production Kitchen Supervisors into division menu development.
• Preparing special diets and meals to meet appropriate therapeutic menu modifications according to established guidelines.
• Reporting any recipe shortages, discrepancies or quality issues to the Executive Chef or supervisor in a timely manner.
• Freezing overproduction in accordance with the production schedule.
• Packaging food products for shipping according to production sheets.
• Receiving, storing and rotating inventory of all required foods and supplies.
• Cleans and sanitizes cooking station daily; maintains cleanliness of kitchen equipment such as ovens, kettles, mixers and others.