Inn From The Cold Hiring For Kitchen Support Staff at Calgary, AB Full Time

You have a passion for making a difference, you crave the opportunity to impact your community and you would describe yourself as someone who seeks a career with purpose. You have a strong internal drive that pushes you to seek challenging work in a collaborative, professional, and reputable environment that does meaningful work in Calgary.

Inn from the Cold (The Inn) is housing-focused, our mission is to offer shelter, housing, and coordinated supports to help children and their families achieve independence. We need passionate, high-performing, and solution-oriented team members to achieve our mission and have an exciting and challenging opportunity for the right candidate.

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Position Summary*
Reporting to the Kitchen, Manager, the Kitchen Support Staff is responsible for delivering, preparing, and storing food products as well as ensuring the kitchen, the equipment and areas including the bathrooms are cleaned and maintained daily. The duties of this position also include working with the team to meal plan following the Canada’s Food Guide, ensuring the menu is within the kitchen budget while keeping in mind that we are cooking and delivering child friendly nutritious and tasty meals. Ensuring that all AHS Food Safety Standards as well as The Inn’s Kitchen Standards are followed. Checklists and temperature lists are filled out daily and communication with team members is up to date and accurate.

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Primary Duties & Responsibilities*

• Perform pre-trip, en-route and post-trip inspection daily on equipment and van and report any deficiencies.
• Operate, maintain, and deliver equipment in a safe and professional manner.
• Sort and unload food products, delivering them with a trolley to various locations using the proper lifting and carrying methods as outlined in the HR Downloads course “Proper Lifting Techniques”.
• Safely operate and drive The Inn’s van to pick up and deliver various items and products while respecting all road/traffic rules.
• Verify correct product is delivered and picked up at every location.
• Load and unload goods.
• Use maps and other trip planning aids.
• Maintain good communication with office staff, peers and clients.
• Prepare, present, and store food products following the AHS Food Safety Standards and The Inn’s Kitchen Standards.
• Ensure refrigerators/ freezers and storerooms are clean, organized and maintained in various kitchen areas including bathrooms on a daily basis.
• Collaborate with the Kitchen Team to plan menus that follow the Canada’s Food Guide and are within budget.
• Update and adhere to kitchen checklists, temperature checks and prep sheets.
• Complete assigned work duties in a timely manner, meeting required deadlines.
• Aid in maintaining and ensuring departmental objectives and timelines are met
• Sanitize all equipment several times daily.
• Practice proper grooming, personal hygiene, and uniform standards.
• Must have a class 5 driver’s license with a clean driving record. A driver’s abstract will be requested on 1st day of employment.
• Will need to have applied for a Police Check and Vulnerable Sector check before starting employment.
• Able to work weekends, evenings and holidays.

Core Competencies**

• Customer Focus
• Accuracy
• Energy and Stress
• Team Work
• Quality Orientation
• Problem Solving
• Accountability and Dependability
• Ethics and Integrity

This position profile reflects the general duties of the position, but is not intended to be a detailed description of all duties that may be inherent in the position. Inn from the Cold offers a competitive salary and benefits package, including comprehensive health and dental benefits, a health spending account, and RRSP matching after three months of service.

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Requirements*

• Strong communication skills.
• Customer focused.
• Hand dexterity and flexibility.
• Mental alertness.
• Ability to provide legible communication.
• Ability to compute basic mathematical calculations.
• Knowledge of proper sanitation procedures and food safe guidelines.
• Effective decision-making skills.
• Strong adaptability skills.
• Innovative, detail oriented, and quality conscious.
• Ability to drive The Inn’s vehicle to various locations around the city.
• Ability to take constructive feedback and leadership.
• Basic Knowledge of Microsoft Word and Excel (an asset).
• Ability to lift 50lb and to exert physical effort when transporting donations and meals to our offsite locations.
• Ability to stand for long periods.
• Manual dexterity required to use desktop computer and peripherals.

Required Training

• Respect in the Workplace
• Required HR Downloads Training
• Read and understand IFTC’s Code of Conduct, policies and procedures
• Indigenous Awareness
• Family Support Staff Expectations & Procedures
• Other training that is recommended or requested as necessary for the role
• WHIMIS Training
• Red Cross Standard First Aid

How to Apply

• Please apply via our company website: Careers – Inn from the Cold
• Applications will be accepted until successful candidate is found
• Must be legally eligible to work in Canada
• No phone calls or email inquiries please
• Only applicants selected for interviews will be contacted

Police Check and Child Intervention Check is required for employment.
Subject to reasonable accommodation, this position will require the successful candidate to show proof they are fully vaccinated for COVID-19.

Mission & Values
At The Inn, our mission is to offer shelter, housing, and coordinated supports to assist children and their families achieve independence.

Compassionate We demonstrate kindness, caring, and a genuine motivation to help
Respectful We hold ourselves and other in high regard and demonstrate this through our attitudes and behaviors
Courageous We are brave and bold and stand strong in our representation for families
Accountable We do what we say and conduct ourselves with integrity and openness
Inclusive We value the rich diversity of people and the right of all to participate fully, without fear or discrimination
Innovative We strive to achieve positive and impactful change by building knowledge, pursuing new ideas, collaborating with others, and learning from our efforts

Diversity Statement
Inn from the Cold is committed to building and fostering a safe and inclusive workplace that values diversity and provides opportunities for all employees to thrive. The Inn will make every effort to recruit qualified staff to fulfill its vision, mission and values, and who reflect the diversity of clients it serves.

Job Type: Full-time