Dietary Aide | Permanent Part Time | Evenings

Dietary Aide | Permanent Part Time | Evenings

Job Category: Individual Contributors

Requisition Number: DIETA064725

Posted: April 17, 2025

Employment Type: Part-Time

Location: On-site

About the Role

As a Dietary Aide at Long Term Care, you'll contribute more than just your professional skills; you'll create meaningful relationships with the individuals who call Sienna Senior Living Owen Hill their home. This position allows you to deliver compassionate care to our residents through your responsibilities in dietary services. Each day presents a new opportunity to improve your abilities and deepen your connections with both your coworkers and the residents you support. Join a team that prioritizes getting to know each resident by their life stories, not just by their names. Our mission is to infuse joy into everyday living! We are deeply committed to serving Canada’s seniors, ensuring that they lead lives filled with comfort, dignity, and respect.

What Sienna Offers

We are a purpose-driven organization. We aspire to cultivate an environment and culture where team members feel valued, heard, and empowered to do meaningful work. We offer a number of programs and benefits that support team members’ financial, personal, and professional needs:

• A competitive salary and vacation package
• Health & Dental benefits program
• RRSP with employer match
• Share Ownership and Reward Program (SOAR)
• Employee Share Purchase Plan with company match
• Continuous learning and growth opportunities
• A welcoming culture that values diversity and differing perspectives, experiences, and beliefs

What You’ll Be Doing

You will be a welcomed member of the Retirement team, working in a fast-paced environment where you will make a meaningful difference in residents’ lives. As a Dietary Aide, you will ensure a safe and clean environment for residents. As an individual and part of a wider team, you will contribute to the culture of the home, where the focus is always on helping residents live fully, every day.

How You’ll Succeed

• Assist with the preparation and serving of meals
• Follow residents' diets and food preferences
• Take menu orders from the residents
• Set and clear tables in the dining rooms and ensure they are sanitized
• Follow proper food handling techniques

Who You Are

• Have a valid Safe Food Handler’s Certificate or willing to obtain
• Committed to providing compassionate support for seniors
• Detail-oriented with strong customer service skills
• Experience in food service from institutional, healthcare, restaurant, or hospitality preferred
• Possessing a Food Service Worker Certificate is an asset, but not required
• Must successfully pass the prescribed Vulnerable Sector Check (Ontario applicants)
• Must successfully pass the prescribed Criminal Records Check (British Columbia applicants)

Sienna Senior Living is committed to employment equity, diversity, and inclusion in the workplace. In accordance with provincial regulations, upon request, support will be provided for accommodations throughout the recruitment, selection, and assessment process.