Cook

Outcome HC; Pooler (GA); On-site; USD 26,000 - 34,000; Full time

Job summary

Outcome HC in Pooler, GA is seeking a caring Cook for both full-time and part-time openings to serve our elderly residents. The ideal candidate enjoys cooking and presenting meals with a focus on nutrition and compassionate service.

Responsibilities include following recipes, maintaining kitchen sanitation, coordinating with dietary staff, and ensuring meals meet schedules and dietary needs while controlling waste. We welcome reliable, professional individuals eager to grow in healthcare.

Qualifications

• Ability to focus on the task at hand.
• Enthusiastic and enjoys engaging with residents.
• Professional appearance.
• Desire to be part of the new generation of healthcare professionals.

Responsibilities

• Self-starter with ability to make independent decisions when necessary.
• Manage the dietary department in the absence of the dietary manager and act as supervisor when needed.
• Understand and comply with local, state, and federal dietary regulations (sanitation, patient care, labor, safety, disaster).
• Maintain a safe, sanitary dietary department and report problems to the dietary manager.
• Conserve supplies, prevent waste, and report needs for food, supplies, and equipment to the dietary manager.
• Receive and store food and supplies; date, label, and store items; use proper handling techniques.
• Review menus/recipes; prepare meals and serve diets as planned with proper portions and special diets.
• Follow standardized recipes and prepare sufficient quantities to meet service requirements.
• Test and taste foods; adjust for appearance, flavor, aroma, and temperature.
• Coordinate timing of meal preparation to meet service schedules.
• Portion food on trays; check diet accuracy and deliver to floors; assist with tray line deliveries.
• Record substitutions; note substitutions when needed; garnish according to patient/resident preferences.
• Attend in-service training; keep work area clean; ensure sanitation of kitchen/equipment.
• Communicate with staff, patients, and families.
• Process diet orders and update tray cards in the absence of the dietary manager.
• Adhere to dress code for the department.
• Performs other tasks as required.

Skills

Focus on task

Engages residents

Professional appearance

Healthcare mindset

Job description

We are looking to invite a caring and compassionate Cook for our Full-Time and Part Time openings. The ideal cook would be someone who enjoys cooking and serving the elderly community.

Cook Job Description:

Performs a variety of food service functions in maintaining clean and sanitary conditions of food service areas and assist with food preparation and serving in the dining room and room service.

Cook Requirements:

• Ability to focus on the task at hand
• Enthusiastic and enjoys engaging with residents
• Professional appearance
• Desire to be part of the new generation of healthcare professionals

Cook Responsibilities:

• Must demonstrate qualities of being a self-starter and be able to make independent decisions when necessary.
• Must be able to manage the dietary department in the absence of the dietary manager when necessary and act as the supervisor when the manager or assistant manager is not available.
• Has a thorough understanding of all regulations (local, state, and federal) which affect dietary including, but not limited to, patient care, sanitation, labor, fire, safety, and disaster and complies with these regulations.
• Assists in maintaining the dietary department in a safe, secure, and sanitary manner and reports any problems to the dietary manager.
• Uses good judgment in conserving supplies, preventing food waste, and conserving utilities. Reports and food, supply, and equipment needs or concerns to the dietary manager.
• Assists in receiving and storing food and supplies to prevent waste and assure quality products. Dates, labels, and stores items properly. Uses proper food handling techniques.
• Reviews menus, therapeutic menus, recipes, and production sheets before preparing meals and prepares and serves all diets properly, accurately, and attractively as planned using proper portions and special diet items.
• Follows standardized recipes and special diet orders, preparing sufficient quantities to meet all service requirements.
• Responsible for testing and tasting foods for proper appearance, flavor, aroma, and temperature and adjusting if needed.
• Responsible for timing of preparation of meals/snacks to meet time schedule for service for all customers and ensures that all meals/snacks are served as scheduled.
• Portions food on plate during tray service according to standards. Checks trays for accuracy of diets, preferences, and quality before they are delivered. Serves on tray line and delivers carts to floors as needed.
• Follows menus provided; if menu substitutions are necessary, records these substitutions in designated place.
• Must show initiative in choosing garnishes, seasonings according to patient/resident preferences, the use of leftovers, and in food presentation and service.
• Attends in-service and other necessary training.
• Keeps work area clean and uncluttered and completes assigned cleaning duties. Responsible for the proper use, care, cleanliness, and sanitation of kitchen and equipment.
• Communicates and cooperates with the staff, patients, and their families.
• Process new diet orders and diet changes when received from nursing service and keeps tray cards updated in absence of dietary manager.
• Adheres to the dress code for the department.
• Performs other tasks.

As our employee, you will enjoy working in an environment that promotes professional growth and development that offers competitive wages, PTO, and insurance plans.

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