Cook

Rose Senior Living Carmel; Cedar Rapids (IA); On-site; USD 22,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

Cottage Grove Place in Cedar Rapids, IA is seeking a Cook to prepare and serve meals for residents, ensuring quality, temperature, and presentation meet dietary policies. You will support daily kitchen operations and assist with serving and cleaning while engaging with residents in a friendly, professional manner.

The role emphasizes hospitality, teamwork, and maintaining high standards of cleanliness and food safety within a senior living setting.

Qualifications

• Minimum two years formal culinary training or degree/equivalent experience.
• Strong attention to food quality, presentation, and sanitation.
• Ability to prepare meals per diet/policy requirements.

Responsibilities

• exemplify cleanliness, sanitation, and organization in the kitchen.
• Maintain food quality, appearance, and presentation standards at all times.
• Prepare and serve menu cycles compliant with nutritional criteria.
• Demonstrate speed, accuracy, and efficiency in cooking.
• Demonstrate knowledge of cooking preparation and production.
• Assist with serving meals and ware washing as needed.
• Visit residents to evaluate food service quality and adjust procedures.
• Represent the community in a warm, inviting manner to support marketing and occupancy.

Skills

Culinary training

Education

Culinary degree or equivalent

Job description

When you work at Cottage Grove Place, you have a front-row seat to the amazing life stories of the wisest people on earth. What’s more, you are part of an extraordinary company – one that’s investing in the future of senior living by investing in you. Don’t just do a job. Be part of an extraordinary life!

Here are a few of the daily responsibilities of a Cook:

• Exemplify at all times Community standards of cleanliness, sanitation and operational organization.
• Responsible for adhering to food quality, appearance and presentation standards at all times.
• Produce and serve menu cycle programs that are compliant with required Nutritional/Dietary criteria as required by local regulations and correctly prepare diets provided per Policy and Procedure.
• Exhibit cooking standards of speed, accuracy, and efficiency.
• Demonstrate knowledge in all areas of cooking preparation and production.
• Assist with serving of meals and ware washing as necessary.
• Visit residents periodically to evaluate food service such as quality, quantity, temperature, and appearance; and conduct evaluations to make revisions in operations / procedures to promote improved food service.
• Represent the community in a warm and inviting manner, which creates a positive marketing environment.
• Supports creating a culture where the business decisions made in this position, along with individual employee engagement, drive top-line revenue and occupancy.

Here are a few of the qualifications we need you to have:

• Minimum two years formal culinary training program with degree or equivalent experience.

Salary Range: $16.00-$17.50

Hospitality Promises

1. We greet you warmly, by name and with a smile.
2. We treat everyone with courteous respect.
3. We anticipate your needs and act accordingly.
4. We listen and respond enthusiastically in a timely manner.
5. We hold ourselves and one another accountable.
6. We make you feel important.
7. We embrace and value our differences.
8. We ask, “Is there anything else I can do for you?”
9. We maintain a high level of professionalism, both in conduct and appearance, at all times.
10. We pay attention to the details.

If you're an enthusiastic, compassionate, senior care professional who is passionate about hospitality and senior engagement- please apply, we'd love to get to know you!

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