Kitchen Manager

Do you have experience managing a commercial kitchen? Do you value your staff as much as you value your guests? Do you enjoy cooking and baking? Does the thought of preparing healthy, family-style meals for 25+ people excite you? Do you enjoy working in a dynamic environment with a variety of individuals? Do you believe that a clean kitchen is a healthy kitchen? The Center for Benedictine Life at the Monastery of St. Gertrude has an opportunity for a responsible individual to lead our Kitchen staff.

This is a full-time position: working 32-40 hours per week. The Kitchen Manager contributes to the Center for Benedictine Life by guiding and participating in the preparation of breakfast, dinner (midday meal), and supper daily for the sisters and residents of the monastery, for the guests of our 22-room retreat center, and for the employees in this community. Tasks are assigned by the Kitchen Manager and shared by the kitchen team. Responsibilities include leading the kitchen team, managing the daily meal preparation, planning the weekly menus, ensuring safety and quality standards, maintaining cleanliness, minimizing food waste, ordering groceries and supplies, and serving as the kitchen point of contact for the residential community members and the Monastery of St. Gertrude ministries.

Requirement: 5+ years managing a commercial kitchen (or equivalent).

Benefits include: pay based on experience; paid time off for holidays, vacations, and sickness; health insurance, Health Savings Account, and 401(k) retirement program; 15% employee discount at the gift shop; participation in a dynamic community.

Registered Nurse – Evening Shift

Do you find meaning in caring for others? Do you appreciate lives overflowing with wisdom?

The Monastery of St. Gertrude has an immediate opening for a full-time evening Registered Nurse (40 hours per week) to join our Sun Porch Care Team. This is a distinctive opportunity to provide attentive, relationship-centered care in the sisters’ home—a peaceful, supportive setting shaped by dignity, respect, and Benedictine hospitality.

The role:

• Provide evening nursing care and clinical oversight for sisters living on the second-floor “Sun Porch.”
• Administer medications and treatments, assess needs, document care, and respond to changes in condition.
• Provide shift-level direction and clinical guidance to caregivers while working collaboratively with the Head Nurse and wider care team.
• Follow individualized care plans and promptly respond to and communicate significant changes, urgent symptoms, falls, injuries, or other concerns.
• Offer calm, respectful care that supports each sister’s dignity, choices, abilities, and lifelong vocation.

We are looking for: A current, unencumbered Idaho Registered Nurse license; current CPR certification; sound clinical judgment; dependable communication; and a compassionate, team-oriented approach. Experience in geriatric, long-term care, assisted living, home health, hospice, rehabilitation, or community nursing is valued.

We are offering: Pay based on experience, with shift differential pay for evenings, nights, weekends, and holidays. Benefits include accrued paid time off, health insurance, a Health Savings Account, a 401(k) retirement program with employer contribution, and a 15% gift shop discount.