Cook

Progress West Hospital; O’Fallon (MO); On-site; USD 42,000 - 56,000; Full time

Job summary

Progress West Hospital is seeking a Cook to join our food service team in Missouri. You will prepare meals for patients, staff and guests, following standardized recipes and safety standards while ensuring all dietary needs are met.

You will be responsible for proper food handling, sanitation, and timely serving, with a schedule that includes early morning and late afternoon shifts, and rotating holidays.

Qualifications

• Prepares and serves meals for patients, staff and guests.
• Follows standardized recipes and safety guidelines for food prep.
• Maintains proper food storage, labeling and rotation per guidelines.
• Ensures dietary restrictions and allergens are observed.

Responsibilities

• Preps and prepares food items by cutting, chopping, slicing, dicing, pureeing, marinating, etc.
• Follows recipes using tools and equipment to meet food quality and serving temperatures.
• Chills and stores foods according to rotation and food safety logs.
• Ensures compliance with special dietary requirements and nutritional restrictions.
• Cleans kitchen equipment, appliances and surfaces to maintain sanitation.

Skills

Food preparation

Sanitation

Regulatory compliance

Education

High School Diploma or GED

ServSafe Certification

Job description

Daily Pay Available!

• Full Time Role - 40 Hours a Week
• Need to be able to work 6:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. and 11:00 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.
• Rotating Holidays and Works Every Other Weekend

Additional Information About The Role

Looking for a fulfilling job that lets you help patients in need? Look no further than Progress Wests Hospital! We're currently seeking a Cook to join our team. As a cook, you'll be a part of providing meals to our patients, hospoital staff and guests. Join us in our mission to provide quality services.

• Full Time Role - 40 Hours a Week
• Need to be able to work 6:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. and 11:00 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.
• Rotating Holidays and Works Every Other Weekend

Overview

Opened in 2007, Progress West Hospital is BJC HealthCare’s newest hospital in St. Charles County, featuring modern private rooms. It offers 24-hour emergency services and has partnered with St. Louis Children’s Hospital to provide world-class pediatric emergency care. Progress West Hospital also provides surgical services, endoscopy services, a cardiac catheterization lab, medical/surgical inpatient services, diagnostic imaging, lab services, and the Advanced Wound Center, a specialty wound treatment facility with state-of-the-art equipment. Progress West Hospital recently completed an expansion of its Childbirth Center to include enhanced services for at-risk mothers and babies, with a newborn ICU that provides care for babies born as early as 32 weeks. Progress West Hospital is a Certified Level II Stroke Center. The hospital’s medical office building houses offices for specialists in primary care, cardiology, obstetrics, pediatrics, and orthopedics.

Preferred Qualifications

Role Purpose

Performs a variety of food service production activities such as pre-preparation and preparation of hot and cold foods for patient services, retail and catering operations following all dietary requirements. Properly handles and stores food per applicable regulatory requirements.

Responsibilities

• Preps and prepares food items by cutting, chopping, slicing, dicing, pureeing, marinating, etc. This includes washing, peeling, cutting, seeding vegetables/fruits, along with weighing and measuring designated ingredients.
• Follows standardized recipes, producing food items by utilizing various cooking techniques such as sautéing, broiling, braising, blanching, baking, grilling, deep-fat frying, and steaming using a variety of institutional equipment while meeting proper food quality and proper serving temperatures.
• Properly chills and stores foods in designated areas following all labeling, dating, food safety guidelines and rotation procedures as well as completing designated food safety quality control logs.
• Ensures compliance of special dietary requirements, nutritional restrictions, allergens, modified textures and other special dietary needs.
• Cleans kitchen equipment, appliances, and work areas to ensure conformance to the highest level of sanitation.

Experience

Minimum Requirements

• No Experience

Supervisor Experience

• No Experience

Preferred Requirements

Education

• High School Diploma or GED

Experience

• 2 years

Licenses & Certifications

• ServSafe Certification

Benefits And Legal Statement

BJC Total Rewards

At BJC we’re committed to providing you and your family with benefits and resources to help you manage your physical, emotional, social and financial well-being.

• Comprehensive medical, dental, vison, life insurance, and legal services available first day of the month after hire date
• Disability insurance* paid for by BJC
• Annual 4% BJC Automatic Retirement Contribution
• 401(k) plan with BJC match
• Tuition Assistance available on first day
• BJC Institute for Learning and Development
• Health Care and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Paid Time Off benefit combines vacation, sick days, holidays and personal time
• Adoption assistance

Not all benefits apply to all jobs

The above information on this description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees in this position. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. Equal Opportunity Employer