Cook

BRIGHTWATER SENIOR LIVING GROUP, LLC; Chiquita (CA); On-site; USD 23,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

The Ridge at Healdsburg, part of Brightwater Senior Living Group, LLC, is seeking a skilled Cook to join our Dining Services team. You will prepare nutritious, appetizing meals, uphold food safety standards, and support kitchen operations while delivering an outstanding dining experience for residents and guests.

We value teamwork, compassion, and a commitment to Brightwater’s mission: to inspire hope and enhance the lives of our residents through an unparalleled experience.

Qualifications

• Two years of experience in institutional or full-service restaurant cooking.
• Ability to convert measurements and recipe quantities.
• Effective communication skills, verbally and in writing.
• Meet health-related requirements and hold a Food Handler permit where required.
• Maintain any required state or provincial certifications.

Responsibilities

• Prepare nutritious, appetizing, and attractive meals for residents and guests.
• Observe safe, sanitary food handling practices and uphold Brightwater standards.
• Assist in kitchen and dining room operations, restock, and maintain cleanliness.
• Review menus and follow Brightwater recipes and physician orders for diets.
• Attend trainings, participate in team meetings, and communicate issues promptly.

Skills

Cooking experience

Kitchen math

Communication

Health compliance

Job description

• Base Pay $20.00 / Hour
• Employee Type FT Non-Exempt
• Required Degree NONE
• Manage Others No

The Ridge at Healdsburg, an Independent Living, Assisted Living, and Memory Care senior living community, is seeking a talented and dedicated Cook to join our Dining Services team. The ideal candidate will have experience in food preparation, a passion for culinary excellence, and a commitment to creating nutritious, appetizing, and attractive meals for residents and guests. This role is responsible for preparing and serving high-quality meals, maintaining food safety and sanitation standards, supporting kitchen operations, and helping deliver the outstanding dining experience that sets Brightwater apart.

We are proud to offer the highest quality engagement, dining, and health support services, and a team that truly cares for our residents. We are always looking for compassionate, teamwork-oriented professionals to join our team. Every team member in a Brightwater community embodies the mission of our company: to inspire hope and enhance the lives of our residents through the creation of an unparalleled experience.

Position Summary

The Line Cook is expected to prepare nutritious, appetizing, and attractive meals; work as a team member with other employees to assure efficient and safe operation of the kitchen and the dining room; receive food and beverage orders, prepare and serve food and beverages, serve, and restock items in bistro; clear and clean tables and chairs, counters, display case(s); and provide exceptional quality food and service to all residents, guests and coworkers by performing essential duties effectively and efficiently.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Maintain resident, employee, and community information in strict confidence (with community management or other employees as necessary).
• Carry trays and supplies.
• Inspect food preparation and serving areas to ensure observance of safe, sanitary food handling practices.
• Wash, peel, cut, and seed fruits and vegetables to prepare them for consumption.
• Bake, roast, broil and steam meats, fish, vegetables and other foods.
• Regulate temperatures of ovens, broilers, grills and roasters.
• Weigh, measure and mix ingredients according to standard recipes using various kitchen utensils and equipment.
• Portions arrange and garnish food in timely manner.
• Observe and test foods to determine if they have been cooked sufficiently, using methods such as tasting, smelling or piercing them with utensils.
• Uphold the standards and expectations of food quality and production set forth by Brightwater.
• Perform scheduled cleaning, stocking, and rotation and maintenance tasks set by Chef.
• Attend scheduled training seminars and staff meetings.
• Review menus and Daily Food Production Record for instructions.
• Prepare meals that are nutritious, appetizing, and attractive according to Brightwater menus and recipes as well as to physician orders for diet, diet texture, and liquid thickness.
• Keeps immediate supervisor promptly and fully informed of all problems or unusual matters of significance and takes prompt corrective action where necessary or suggests alternative courses of action which may be taken.

Requirements

• Have two years of experience in institutional or full-service restaurant cooking
• Ability to prepare varying quantities of set recipes by converting common measurements and equivalents using addition, subtraction, division and multiplication
• Ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g. patterns of numbers, letters, words, mathematical operations.
• Demonstrate ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing.
• Meet state or provincial health related requirements.
• Maintain Food Handlers permit as required by state or provincial regulations.
• Maintain any certifications as required by state or provincial regulations.

About us

Brightwater is a management company that oversees senior living communities across North America. At Brightwater, our goal is to lead the way in innovation for tomorrow to enrich the lives of seniors today by providing seniors and families with hospitality and healthcare experiences that are unrivaled.

Why we do what we do

We know that the most important moments in our residents’ lives are the ones that make them feel at home. We continue to create services and amenities designed to help seniors' live life THEIR way and never ask them to change who they are to fit into our communities. We design spaces that adapt to their lives, their needs, and their choices.

What we value

Everything our team members do, everything our team members say, and the way our team members act is a direct reflection of the Brightwater brand. We know how important it is to show admiration, have integrity, and work as a team to strive for both excellence and innovation. We expect our team members to take ownership of their role and show stewardship in the way they manage human, material and fiscal resources that have been entrusted to our care. We also encourage the complete well-being of our team members by valuing the time required for regeneration and rejuvenation.

Our communication philosophy

We pride ourselves on creating an environment that facilitates open and transparent communication with our team members, our residents and our families. Our team is available to listen, support and serve the needs of all team members through direct and ongoing dialogue, and we believe that this respectful, open-minded dialogue makes us stronger in what we do and how we do it. We make every effort to ensure team member’s suggestions, ideas, opinions, and concerns are heard, and we reward team members for creation of ideas that improve any aspect of our community.

Brightwater Senior Living is an equal-opportunity employer and strives to provide an environment in which human dignity prevails. All employment decisions are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications without regard to race, perceived race, color, national origin, citizenship status, ancestry, creed, religion, age, marital status, family/parental status, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, source of income, receipt of public assistance, status as a veteran or current or future military status. Brightwater Senior Living does not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics.