Assistant Cook 60%
Key information
- Publication date:16 December 2025
- Workload:60%
- Contract type:Permanent position
- Place of work:Bern
Job summary
Join our kitchen team to provide balanced meals for diverse groups. Enjoy a supportive work environment with great benefits.
Tasks
- Ensure cleanliness of dishes and transport them back to stations.
- Assist in both cold and warm kitchen tasks, including meal prep.
- Support meal plating in the bistro and assist with catering.
Skills
- Previous experience in a kitchen, good German skills required.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills essential.
- Reliable, independent, and flexible to work weekends.
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Together with the kitchen team, you ensure a
balanced and varied catering for different groups of people.
We are looking for an
Assistant Cook 60% starting February 1, 2026, or by agreement.
Our hospitality department, consisting of service, gastronomy, cleaning, and services, ensures with its experienced staff that residents feel at home with us. We live service and thus make people happy. Our focus is on the residents and patients.
The Diaconis gastronomy prepares about 500 meals daily according to individual needs. A catering service, the public restaurant, and our cafeteria complement the gastronomic offer.
Your tasks with us
- Responsibility for cleaning the dishes and returning them to the ward
- Cleaning the kitchen floors, ventilation, ceilings, and windows
- Assistance in the cold and hot kitchen in all areas, e.g., production, portioning of meals, plating desserts, etc.
- Support with mise en place in all areas such as catering, production, etc.
- Support with plating meals in the bistro
You bring the following
- Professional experience in the kitchen
- Good German skills
- Contact and communication skills
- Reliable and independent
- Flexible, willing to work weekends
Your benefits with us
- At least 6 weeks of vacation plus 9 guaranteed public holidays
- Flexible annual working hours
- Central and modern workplace in a beautiful location in the city of Bern
- Various discounts and offers from partner companies
- 16 weeks maternity leave at 100% pay, 4 weeks paternity leave
- Long-service gift every 5 years
About the company
Benefits
Additional contribution for pension fund
Paid maternity leave
Training
Diverse workforce
Part-time work
Possibility of unpaid holidays
Employee discount
Free drinks
In the city center
Good public transport connections
Paid paternity leave
