Child Care Kitchen Assistant
- Ottawa, ON, Canada
Pay Range: $20.56 per hour · Full-time
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- Pay Range: $20.56 per hour
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Original job description
Center: Barrhaven Centre, ON
Pay Range: $20.56 per hour
Job Type: Full-Time
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.
More about this job
Responsibilities
The Kitchen Assistant is responsible for preparing and serving nutritious meals for children while maintaining kitchen safety and sanitization standards. Additionally, the role involves supporting teachers within the classrooms when not performing kitchen duties.
Requirements
Candidates should possess effective time management skills and meet provincial requirements for childcare employment. Preferred qualifications include Food Handling Certification and experience cooking for large groups, along with current First Aid and CPR certification.
Skills
- Food preparation
- Sanitization
- Time management
- Classroom assistance
- Dietary restriction management
- Dishwashing
- First aid
- Infant CPR
- Child CPR
Benefits
- Childcare discount
- Retirement plan (RRSP)
- Company match
- Sick time
- Paid statutory holidays
- Paid vacation days
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Life insurance
Visa sponsorship
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Categories
- Education
- Food & Beverage
- Social Services
Keywords
- Child Care
- Kitchen Assistant
- Food Handling
- Sanitization
- Public Health
- Early Childhood Education
- First Aid
- CPR
- Meal Preparation
- Dietary Restrictions
- RRSP
- Professional Development