Cook EFZ

Kilchberg

Key information

Publication date:05 September 2025
Workload:100%
Place of work:Kilchberg

Job summary

Join the beautiful Hochweid retirement center in Kilchberg! Enjoy a supportive, sustainable work environment with great benefits.

Tasks

Prepare meals, including diet menus, focusing on quality and presentation.
Plan menus and innovate culinary concepts with the team.
Supervise kitchen staff and train apprentices in HACCP hygiene standards.

Skills

Completed chef training (Koch EFZ) with healthcare experience preferred.
Passion for sustainability and vegetarian cooking.
Strong teamwork skills and a commitment to quality.

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The beautifully located Hochweid Retirement Center in Kilchberg includes a retirement and nursing home with space for around 48 residents as well as a care living group with 10 places for people with dementia. The focus of our work is on palliative care and dementia care. Our center also includes a retirement settlement with 53 retirement apartments as well as 5 additional retirement apartments in the Conradstift at Dorfstrasse 80/82.

Cooking is your passion and you love to delight your guests with extraordinary taste experiences. If your heart also beats faster when you hear the keywords sustainability, regional and seasonal, then you are exactly right with us! With us, you have the opportunity to further develop the kitchen together with our team and implement innovative concepts or projects.

You can look forward to this challenge

Co-responsibility for the timely preparation of all meals including diet menus according to criteria of quality, quantity and appearance
Flexibility in work assignments
Ideas for menu planning and implementation
Placing daily orders
Guidance of kitchen staff
Supervision, monitoring and support in the training of apprentices
Compliance with hygiene according to HACCP regulations

This is what we expect from you

Completed training as a cook EFZ
Several years of professional experience in healthcare is an advantage
Interest and joy in sustainability (regional, seasonal) and vegetarian cuisine
Passion for the profession and enjoyment in dealing with elderly people
Service-oriented, quality-conscious and creative
High sense of responsibility, team player and committed
Reliable and independent working style
Very good knowledge of German
Willingness to work on weekends and public holidays

We offer you

Varied tasks in a committed team
Attractive employment conditions with many benefits, such as allowances for half-fare travelcard, admissions to Zurich Zoo and much more.
Good accessibility by public as well as private transport
At least 5 weeks of vacation (depending on age); possibility to buy additional vacation
Above-average insurance benefits
Training and further education opportunities
Possibility for good and affordable meals through the in-house kitchen

Have we made you curious?
Please apply exclusively via our online application portal at www.alterszentrum-hochweid.ch. Application dossiers submitted by e-mail will neither be considered nor answered.

Do you have questions? Feel free to contact us.