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Job Description

Prep Cook – Retirement Home 

25-40 Hours per week

Position Summary:
The Prep Cook assists with the preparation and service of meals for residents in a retirement-home setting. This role involves preparing ingredients, following standardized recipes and menus, accommodating special dietary needs, maintaining a clean and sanitary kitchen, and supporting cooks and dietary staff during meal service.

Key Responsibilities:

• Prepare ingredients by washing, peeling, chopping, slicing, portioning, and measuring foods
• Assist with preparing meals, soups, salads, sandwiches, desserts, and snacks according to established menus and recipes
• Follow resident-specific dietary requirements, including texture-modified, low-sodium, diabetic-friendly, allergy-sensitive, and other prescribed diets
• Portion and plate meals according to dietary instructions and established serving sizes
• Assist kitchen staff with breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snack preparation
• Follow proper food-handling, storage, temperature-control, and sanitation procedures
• Label, date, rotate, and properly store food using FIFO procedures
• Maintain clean and sanitized food-preparation areas, equipment, utensils, refrigerators, and workstations
• Assist with receiving and organizing food deliveries and monitoring inventory when required
• Follow infection-prevention, workplace-safety, and facility policies
• Communicate respectfully with residents and work collaboratively with cooks, dietary aides, servers, nursing staff, and management
• Report food-safety concerns, equipment issues, shortages, or resident dietary concerns to the appropriate supervisor
• Experience in a retirement home, long-term-care facility, hospital, or healthcare kitchen is particularly valuable