Overview

Job Summary

Under the supervision of the Child Care Programs Manager, the Daycare Cook will oversee all aspects of the daycare’s food services program (breakfast, morning snack, lunch, afternoon snack); ensure quality food preparation; meals and service. The Daycare Cook is responsible for menu planning, grocery shopping, monitoring, and maintaining all kitchen inventories and adhering to industry sanitation practices and standards. The Daycare Cook will collaborate with ECE Staff on healthy eating options for toddlers and implement strategies into the daycare food service program to accommodate early years children.

 Core Competencies

•  Accountability •  Teamwork •  Leadership •  Communication

•       Service Orientation •       Decision Making •       Planning and Organizing •       Ethics and integrity

•      Networking and Relationship Building •      Problem Solving •      Flexibility

 Duties/ Responsibilities                                                                                                                            Job Responsibilities and Work Performed

• Assist design a nutritious breakfast & lunch program for the daycare, ensuring the meals advertised on the monthly Daycare Calendar are included in the menu
• Collaborate and consult with ECE Staff when menu planning for each
• Go grocery shopping, ensuring all ingredients for weekly menus are
• Maintain and track kitchen inventory levels, purchasing and restocking food and supplies, as necessary.
• Assist with cereal and fruit for breakfast program 5 days per

• Prepare lunches for approximately 30 people (children and staff) five days per
• Incorporate traditional foods (meat, fish, berries, roots) in menu and recipes when
• Provide a variety of fresh vegetable and fruit
• Assist with serving hot meals to students and staff (for safety reasons).
• Adhere to food safe practices, ensuring proper preparation, sanitization, and storage after each meal (kitchen, dishes, lunch tables, floors, countertops, leftover food, etc.).
• Establish good routines to ensure safety, cleanliness, and upkeep of work areas, including kitchen and serving areas:
  • Clean and maintain area where meals are prepared and
  • Clean all plates, bowls and utensils using industrial sanitizer and put items away when
  • Wash all pots and pans by
  • Clean all kitchen surfaces, stovetop, and oven after
  • Sweep and mop kitchen floor

Specific Job Skills and Levels

• Knowledge and experience of food service
• Knowledge and experience with budgeting and purchasing (food and supplies for lunch program).
• Manage and maintain the hot lunch program budget and provide necessary reports (accounting of dollars spent, purchases, receipts, etc.).
• Knowledge and experience with menu planning, volume food preparation and modification of recipes.
• Knowledge of inventory control procedures, procurement and storing of food items and
• Knowledge of nutritional and cultural food values for
• Knowledge of healthy food guidelines as set out by First Nation Health
• Knowledge of personal hygiene, food handling, sanitation, and safety precautions; standard Food Safe practices.
• Ability to network with local food producers and businesses to source local affordable
• Good physical health, including the ability to lift up to 40
• Knowledge and experience to operate industrial kitchen equipment

 Qualifications/Requirements                                                 Minimum Academic/Educational Requirements

• Grade 12 and/or combination of related training OR
• Current Food Safe Certification (must provide proof).

Other Certification, Licenses, Designations and/or Training

• Valid Class 5 BC Driver’s License and a reliable, insured

Minimum level of Experience

• 1 year experience working in a food service

Assets

• Must possess high physical energy to handle job
• Knowledge of Okanagan language and

 Working Conditions

• Moderate level of physicality and
• Ability to lift to 40
• Ability to stand for long periods of
• Ability to manage time and have food prepared on
• Exposure to noise and hazards – daycare setting with early years children is unpredictable
• Positive and safe working
• Drug & Alcohol

Preference will be given to qualified Aboriginal applicants as per section 21 of the Human Rights Code.

All Penticton Indian Band employees are encouraged to learn about the culture, language and customs of the Okanagan people and must be willing to continuously upgrade their skills and knowledge and further their formal education.

The Penticton Indian Band offers a competitive compensation and benefits package as well as a great team and respectful work environment. If you are qualified and looking for an exciting and rewarding career, please send a resume and cover letter to the attention of:

Armando O. Lopez, HR Manager Penticton Indian Band

Mail:	841 Westhills Drive Penticton, BC V2A 0E8	Fax:	(250) 493-2882
		Email:	[email protected]
In Person:	PIB Administration Offices – 841 Westhills Drive, Penticton, BC

 

The Penticton Indian Band provides equal employment opportunities to all, regardless of race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, family status, political belief, creed, disability that does not prohibit performance of essential job functions or that cannot be accommodated, or conviction for which a pardon has been granted. However, where two or more applicants have comparable or equivalent skills and qualifications, preference shall be given, in the following order, to persons with specific knowledge of and/or experience with Sn’Pink’tn(Penticton) language (N’syilxcen), culture, history and customs; persons of Aboriginal, Métis or Inuit ancestry; and all others.

 

We thank all those who apply; however, only those candidates selected for interview will be contacted.