Meals Unit is Hiring a Chef for Elderly Care

The mission of the Meals Unit is to serve delicious and nutritious food tailored to the needs of our operations. We want to create joy in food and contribute to health, development, and sustainable habits among our diners. We offer a well-composed diet of high quality prepared with fine ingredients and dedicated staff. Do you want to help create good, nutritious meals that make a difference for our seniors? We are now looking for a chef who will be responsible for the part of the kitchen that prepares food for elderly care – a meaningful job where you add a touch of gold to the everyday life of many of our community residents.

Your New Job

With us, you will have the opportunity to make a difference and be part of a workplace focused on quality. We hope you have a strong will and drive to develop an operation with a growing number of guests together with us in the Meals Unit.

In the Solskiftesköket Elderly Care, you will cook from scratch with a focus on traditional home cooking and flavors. Today, the kitchen serves approximately 150 guests daily within home care and guests in our two senior restaurants in central Åkersberga. We are proud to offer meals that make a difference – every day.

As the Head Chef, your responsibilities include:

Leading and coaching your team consisting of one chef and one kitchen assistant.
Administering orders, production documents, and labels in our food data system Mashie.
Ordering food and consumables and ensuring you stay within the set budget.
Participating in menu development and maintaining continuous contact with receiving kitchens.
Collaborating closely with the head chef for school meals in the same kitchen.

Your Profile

Culinary education or equivalent experience.
Experience in large-scale kitchens and cooking for elderly care.
Knowledge of self-control/HACCP and special diets.
Flavor-sensitive, structured, and good at leading teams.
Good social skills, communicative, and collaborates well with colleagues and other functions.
Good sense of logistics, planning, and prioritization – you see flows and opportunities for efficiency in production.
Enjoy working towards deadlines and can handle stressful situations professionally.
Passionate about creating meals that enhance the quality of life for seniors.

Meritorious:

Experience with the food data system Mashie.
Knowledge of texture-adapted food.

We place great emphasis on personal suitability and the composition of the team.

Employment Scope

Full-time 100% Monday-Friday

Employment Type

Permanent

Start Date

As soon as possible or by agreement

Application Deadline

251207

Does this sound exciting? Register your application via the “Apply” button. Unfortunately, we cannot accept applications in any other way.

Feel free to read more at osteraker.se/jobbaiösteråker (https://osteraker.se/jobbai%C3%B6ster%C3%A5ker)

Österåker Municipality is looking for individuals who have the competence to contribute to our operations regardless of gender, gender identity or expression, age, ethnic background, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or disability. Just like us, you also have a child rights perspective in your daily work, in accordance with the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Contact information for our union representatives can be found on our website.

For this recruitment, we have decided on the recruitment channels we wish to use. Therefore, we kindly ask not to be contacted for additional offers of competence mediation, advertising, and recruitment assistance.

Thirty miles to Stockholm, 1,100 islands, 930 kilometers of coastline, and a slightly nicer way of living. We in Österåker are proud of our metropolitan-adjacent archipelago environment where the picturesque cultural landscape is always close. The central town of Åkersberga is developing into a modern city with a small-town character. Here we are developing a long-term sustainable society where good conditions are provided for people, the environment, and nature to cooperate.