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Cook_Casual
@ Levante Living
Wallaceburg, Ontario
Overview
Levante Living is hiring a casual contract cook for its retirement residences. The cook prepares standardized and prescribed-diet meals, keeps food areas sanitary, and assumes departmental duties in the manager's absence. The posting asks for one year of volume cooking experience and a food handling certificate.
Pay:
$19.90 an hour
Responsibilities:
- Prepare food from menus and standardized recipes, including prescribed diets
- Inspect food preparation and serving areas for safe, sanitary handling
- Complete food and refrigeration temperature and menu change documentation
- Maintain a clean, safe environment using infection control principles
- Assume departmental operations in the Manager of Culinary Services' absence
Requirements summary:
- Minimum one year volume food preparation or catering experience
- Valid Safe Food Handling Certificate
- Sensitivity to the dietary needs of seniors
- Ability to lift heavy, hot items and stand most of a shift
- Effective English verbal and written communication
- Minimum Grade 12; Smart Serve an asset
Tools & skills
Source and dates
Employer career site / ATS feed · jazzhr
- Employer posting date
- 2026-10-06
- First seen by our source
- 2026-10-09
- Source record updated
- 2026-10-16
These dates describe the source record, not a live verification that the employer is still hiring. Check the original posting.
Job details
| Seniority | Entry level |
| Department | Food & beverage |
| Experience | 1+ years |
| Travel | air: none · ground: none |
| Work setting | Care home, Restaurant or kitchen |
| Position | Mostly standing |
| Physical demands | physical high · computer low |
| Languages | English |
| Licences & certifications | Safe Food Handling Certificate, Smart Serve |
| Education | High school (required) |
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Levante Living
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Enhancing the lives of those we serve with dignity, compassion, integrity and excellence.
Full company description
Levante Residences is a trusted partner that cares about the wellbeing of our seniors. We believe that serving seniors is a great privilege and a great responsibility. Our priority is to focus on the needs of each individual with the kind of respect, comfort and socialization that truly make a Levante Residence feel like home.
- LinkedIn followers
- 3,180
- People associated on LinkedIn
- 171
- Reported office locations
- Toronto, ca
- Business categories
- Property Development
- Property Management
- Real Estate
- Other recorded names
- Levante Living
- Profile identifies a recruitment agency
- No
- Reported total investment
- 0
Currency and observation date were not supplied; this is not a current valuation or a funding round.
Levante Residences is a trusted partner that cares about the wellbeing of our seniors. We believe that serving seniors is a great privilege and a great responsibility. Our priority is to focus on the needs of each individual with the kind of respect, comfort and socialization that truly make a Levante Residence feel like home.
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Industry | Hospitality |
| Company size | 1,001-5,000 employees |
| Headquarters | Toronto |
| Organization type | Privately Held |
| Year founded | 2016 |
| Open jobs on Jobsy | 26 |
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Our mission at Levante Living is to provide a supportive and caring experience for our residents,
families, and team members. For us, this is more than a job; it’s a passion. Together, we create a
space at each residence where ongoing enrichment helps both residents and team members
thrive. Levante Living is a rapidly growing retirement living portfolio (23 properties under
management), primarily in secondary markets with a mix of independent and assisted living
suites. We believe in living our values to build a culture rooted in respect and teamwork, and we
remain focused on excellence in team member experience, resident satisfaction, and financial
performance.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
Based on menus, sets up equipment and supplies for food preparation. Prepares food following standardized recipes. Provides for prescribed diets, at appropriate temperatures and in portion controlled quantities;
Inspect food preparation and serving areas to ensure observance of safe, sanitary food handling practices;
Completes all necessary documentation (food and refrigeration temperatures, dishwashing machine temperatures if applicable, menu changes) as assigned;
Complies with all provincial regulations, established food and beverage department policies and procedures and ORCA standards to ensure the department is tour ready;
In the absence of the Manager of Culinary Services assumes responsibility for departmental operations including menu changes as necessary, requisitions and purchases food and other supplies from authorized suppliers;
Maintains a clean, safe environment for residents utilizing infection control principles;
Perform other duties as required.
KEY QUALIFICATIONS:
Minimum one year experience in volume food preparation, catering and special event preparation in the hospitality or Retirement home industry;
Must be sensitive to the dietary needs of seniors;
Must be physically able to lift and transfer heavy, hot items and stand for majority of shift;
Effective verbal and written English communication skills required.
Minimum Grade 12.
Must have a valid Safe Food Handling Certificate, Smart Serve Certificate an asset.
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