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Full Time Cook – Seniors Living Retirement
@ S&R Group of Companies
Kitchener, Ontario
Overview
S&R Group of Companies is hiring a full-time cook for its Seniors Living homes, preparing fresh, nutritious meals for residents. The work covers batch cooking, texture-modified diets, food safety and kitchen equipment care, with regular daytime hours that leave evenings free. Certification in Food Safety Awareness and a Vulnerable Sector Screening are required.
Pay:
$19–$20 an hour
Responsibilities:
- Prepare fresh, nutritious meals from scratch for residents
- Cook in batches and manage multiple stations
- Prepare texture-modified and special diet meals
- Maintain kitchen cleanliness, food safety and food temperature records
- Operate and maintain kitchen equipment and support special events
Requirements summary:
- Food Safety Awareness Course certification, renewed every 5 years
- Vulnerable Sector Screening completed within the past 6 months
- Experience following standardized recipes and safe food practices
Tools & skills
Benefits mentioned
Source and dates
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- Employer posting date
- 2026-09-24
- First seen by our source
- 2026-10-08
- Source record updated
- 2026-10-09
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 |
| Hours per week | 40 (estimated) |
| Schedule | day |
| Travel | air: none · ground: none |
| Work setting | Care home, Restaurant or kitchen |
| Position | Mostly standing |
| Physical demands | physical moderate · computer low |
| Licences & certifications | Food Safety Awareness Course |
| Perks mentioned | Flexible hours, Retirement plan, Free or discounted meals |
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S&R Group of Companies
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Creating Communities that are good for life!
Full company description
Creating communities that are good for life: The S&R Group creates communities that are good for life, developing, owning, and managing retirement communities, long term care homes, and commercial and multi-residential properties. Our success is based on the creation of communities where residents, tenants and employees flourish. The measure of our success is the passion our residents feel for the community and our team members for their work.
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- Reported office locations
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- Business categories
- Communities
- Retirement
- Real Estate
- Nursing & Residential Care Facilities
- Healthcare
- Other recorded names
- S&R Group of Companies
- S&R Group
- Specialties
- Apartment Rentals and Leasing
- Commercial Office and Retail Leasing
- Asset Management
- and Retirement
- Profile identifies a recruitment agency
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- Reported total investment
- 0
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Creating communities that are good for life: The S&R Group creates communities that are good for life, developing, owning, and managing retirement communities, long term care homes, and commercial and multi-residential properties. Our success is based on the creation of communities where residents, tenants and employees flourish. The measure of our success is the passion our residents feel for the community and our…
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Industry | Nursing Homes and Residential Care Facilities |
| Company size | 1,001-5,000 employees |
| Headquarters | Sarnia, Ontario |
| Organization type | Privately Held |
| Year founded | 1963 |
| Specialties | Apartment Rentals and LeasingCommercial Office and Retail LeasingAsset Managementand Retirement |
| Open jobs on Jobsy | 60 |
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Company Description
At S&R Seniors Living, "We LOVE our Residents". Our affection for our residents runs far deeper than a brand or a logo—this philosophy envelops all that we do. Dedicated to our residents, our role is to ensure their good physical and emotional well-being, and to tend the needs of the heart. We are looking for people who, like us, believe the work we do has a positive impact on their community and that together we can continue supporting our Residents and their families.
Job Description
At our Seniors Living homes, we pride ourselves on creating a warm and welcoming culinary atmosphere with fantastic food. This cook position offers reasonable operating hours you don't often find in the restaurant industry, you can have your evenings to yourself! Help support some of the most vulnerable people in your community in a job that gives great work-life balance. If you were working for us as a Cook, here are some of the things you would have done last week:
- Prepared delicious, nutritious meals from scratch that brought comfort and enjoyment to Residents
- Cooked in batches and managed multiple stations to ensure meals were served on time and at the right temperature
- Created meals that followed Residents’ dietary needs and texture modifications, always using standardized recipes and safe practices
- Ensured the kitchen was kept clean, safe, and sanitary by practicing strong food safety habits, from handwashing to routine cleaning and sanitizing
- Checked and recorded food temperatures to ensure compliance with policies, Public Health regulations, and MOH guidelines
- Safely operated, cleaned, and maintained kitchen equipment to keep everything in excellent working order
- Contributed to special events like holiday dinners or summer barbecues that brought Residents and families together
- And supported your team as needed.
When you apply, if you have your credentials, we will try our best to reach out to you within the week (hopefully within a few days). When you’re eligible with us for benefits, you can expect a variety of them:
- Flexibility in shift scheduling to support your home life
- When eligible, you can enjoy full range of extended Health benefits
- Pension/RRSP matching
- And many Company Events like our annual recognition parties, team theme parties, lunches, outings, and paid days off
We prioritize promoting from within and support our employees' educational needs because we care for the team we have put together. We come to our workplace each day understanding that we are entering our Residents' Home, and we are there to support them. While we don't take ourselves seriously, we take our jobs seriously and love to have fun with each other and the Residents!
Qualifications
To be hired into this role, you must have:
- Certification in the Food Safety Awareness Course with recertification every 5 years
- Vulnerable Sector Screening (VSS) check completed within the past 6 months
Additional Information
While our Applicant Tracking System uses some AI-enhanced tools, every decision throughout screening, assessing, and selecting candidates is made by real people on our team.
This posting is for an upcoming vacancy.
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