Full-Time Pastry Chef in Iowa City, Iowa at Christian Retirement Services Inc

With wages starting at $17.50/hour, Pastry Chefs at Oaknoll do more than plan and prepare baked goods for our residents. Our Pastry Chefs help CREATE home for our residents, building lasting relationships with them and other staff members. Oaknoll is a not-for-profit community that provides resident-centered care and services through our CREATE culture.

CREATE is an acronym for our values: caring, respect, enthusiasm, awareness, teamwork, and encouragement. We believe that people should experience joyful, active, and connected lives as they age. We believe people should have the opportunity to receive competent, caring, and compassionate health care when they need it. We believe our community is both special and unique because of the people who live here, the people who work here, and the relationships that they build together. We strive to make the lives of our residents and our staff meaningful and fulfilling. If you want to share in these values and the relationships that they allow us to build, we are looking for YOU!

Oaknoll is seeking a Pastry Chef to join our dining team. Hours are Monday through Friday, approximately 9am to 5:30pm, with some variation as needed to accomodate special events or the needs of specific recipes. As a Pastry Chef, your responsibilities would include preparing a variety of baked good, decorating and presenting pastries in a tasteful and beautiful way, developing new recipes, ensuring the quality of ingredients used, staying up to date with pastry trends, and helping to ensure the bakery area and the kitchen is kept clean and adheres to health and safety regulations. Some holidays and weekends may be required.

Why choose Oaknoll? Not only are we a community focused not-for-profit, but we offer a wide range of employee benefits including: competitive pay, paid time off, retirement plan with company contributions, 40% off employee meals, free use of our gyms and pool, weekly access to a Nurse Practitioner free of charge, onsite parking, tuition reimbursement, scholarship program, and student loan repayment assistance, along with medical, dental, vision, life, FSAs, and voluntary short-term and long-term disability insurances for eligible employees.

Come check us out and learn why Oaknoll is right for you!

About Oaknoll

Oaknoll Retirement Residence is an independent, not-for-profit, continuing care retirement community in Iowa City, IA. We provide resident-centered service, driven by our values of caring, respect, enthusiasm, awareness, teamwork, and encouragement. We’re proud of our excellent reputation as a premier place to live and work. There’s a strong sense of family at Oaknoll, so coming to work is like coming home.

Oaknoll Retirement Residence is an Equal Opportunity Employer that welcomes and encourages all applicants to apply regardless of age, race, sex, religion, color, national origin, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, or other reason prohibited by law.

• Candidates should have at least two years of baking experience.
• Candidates should have expertise in pastry-making, dessert preparation, and baking techniques.
• Candidates should have a familiarity with food stafety standards and regulations.
• Candidates with certification in culinary arts, pastry-making, or baking are preferred.