Cook

BHS Baptist Healthcare System; Corbin (KY); On-site; USD 26,000 - 34,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Life Insurance

PTO

Job summary

Baptist Health is seeking a Cook I for full-time, 1st shift in Corbin, Kentucky. The role supports patient meals and cafeteria services, ensuring nutritious, safely prepared dishes per dietary requirements and standardized recipes.

The position involves kitchen duties, equipment operation, training support, and adherence to hospital policies, sanitation, and safety guidelines. High school diploma or GED preferred; food safety credentials encouraged.

Qualifications

• No minimum education or prior experience required.
• High School Diploma or GED preferred.
• One to three months of related experience preferred.
• Food Handler Card or ServSafe certification preferred.

Responsibilities

• Prepares and cooks meals for patients, cafeteria customers, and special events using standardized recipes.
• Ensures proper food portions, quality, temperature, and compliance with patient dietary requirements.
• Maintains food safety and sanitation standards, including proper storage, labeling, dating, and rotation.
• Safely operates kitchen equipment and maintains clean, organized food preparation and storage areas.
• Monitors food supplies, replenishes items, and prepares food for upcoming meal services.
• Follows hospital policies, infection control procedures, and workplace safety guidelines.
• Assists with training and orientation of new employees and supports daily food service operations.

Education

High School Diploma or GED

Food Handler Card or ServSafe certification

Job description

Cook I Full Time/1st Shift Food Service | Corbin, Ky

Baptist Health Hospital Food Service Unit plays a vital role in providing nutritious and well-balanced meals for patients, visitors, and staff. Our patient meal program, Care Cuisine, is designed to provide nutritious, high-quality meals that support healing and enhance the overall patient experience. More than just preparing food, the Care Cuisine team works closely to ensure each patient receives meals that meet their dietary needs, personal preferences, and physician-ordered restrictions. By combining excellent customer service with attention to detail, Care Cuisine helps patients feel cared for and comfortable during their hospital stay, contributing to both their recovery and satisfaction The unit also manages the cafeteria and catering services for hospital events, offering a variety of menu options for staff and visitors. The team consists of skilled chefs, dietitians, and food service workers who work closely with healthcare professionals to ensure that the nutritional needs of patients are met to support their recovery and overall well-being.

Cooks, prepares, presents, and serves food items. Ensures that food is prepared in a manner, which is nutritious, safe, properly flavored and in compliance with sanitation and safety requirements, and accrediting agency standards for quality.

Job Description

• Prepares and cooks meals for patients, cafeteria customers, and special events using standardized recipes.
• Ensures proper food portions, quality, temperature, and compliance with patient dietary requirements.
• Maintains food safety and sanitation standards, including proper storage, labeling, dating, and rotation.
• Safely operates kitchen equipment and maintains clean, organized food preparation and storage areas.
• Monitors food supplies, replenishes items, and prepares food for upcoming meal services.
• Follows hospital policies, infection control procedures, and workplace safety guidelines.
• Assists with training and orientation of new employees and supports daily food service operations.

Requirements

• No minimum education or prior experience required.
• High School Diploma or GED preferred.
• One to three months of related experience preferred.
• Food Handler Card or ServSafe certification preferred.
• No professional license or additional certification required.

Benefits

• Health, Vision, Dental and Pet Insurance
• Life Insurance
• Short Term and Long-Term Disability and Life Insurance
• Identity Theft Protection
• Tuition Reimbursement up to $6,000 annually
• Company paid Maternity and Paternity Leave
• 5 days of Paid Time Off available upon hire
• Bereavement Leave (includes pets)
• PTO Sell Back Program
• Compassionate Leave Sharing Program (PTO Donation)
• Employee Support Fund, for employees in need of emergency financial support
• Retirement with Company Match

Baptist Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer.

Baptist Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer, and seeks to employ individuals without regard to race, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, marital status, citizenship status, military status, religious or political beliefs, protected veteran status, employment status or any other protected class identified in any federal, state, or local law.

Baptist Health specifically encourages minority, female, disabled, veteran and other candidates from diverse backgrounds to apply and strengthen our team.

Please note that Baptist Health is a drug-free workplace and employment with Baptist Health is subject to post offer, pre-employment drug testing.

NOTICE OF NONDISCRMISSION AND ACCESSIBILITY TO SERVICES Persons with hearing and speech impairments can contact Baptist Health facilities by using the Kentucky Relay Service, a toll-free telecommunication device for the deaf (TDD). For voice to TDD, call 800.648.6057. For TDD to voice, call 800.648.6056. Job Applicant Privacy Policy Statement - Job Applicant Privacy Policy

Founded in 1924 in Louisville, Kentucky, Baptist Health is a full-spectrum health system dedicated to improving the health of the communities it serves. The Baptist Health family consists of 10 hospitals, employed and independent physicians, and more than 470 points of care, including outpatient facilities, physician practices and services, urgent care clinics, outpatient diagnostic and surgery centers, home care, fitness centers, and occupational medicine and physical therapy clinics. Baptist Health’s eight owned hospitals include more than 2,300 licensed beds in Corbin, Elizabethtown, La Grange, Lexington, Louisville, Paducah, Richmond and New Albany, Indiana. Baptist Health also operates two joint venture hospitals: the 410-bed Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville in Madisonville, Kentucky with Deaconess Health System based in Evansville, Indiana, and the Baptist Health Rehabilitation Hospital, a 40-bed inpatient rehabilitation facility with Encompass Health, based in Birmingham, Alabama. Baptist Health employs more than 24,000 people in Kentucky and surrounding states. Baptist Health is the first health system in the U.S. to have all of its hospitals recognized by the American Nursing Credentialing Center with either a Magnet or Pathway to Excellence designation for nursing excellence. Baptist Health’s employed provider network, Baptist Health Medical Group, has more than 1,820 employed providers offering care in 78 specialties, including approximately 862 physicians and 958 advanced practice clinicians. Baptist Health’s physician network also includes more than 2,000 independent physicians.