Cook

Deercreekseniorliving; Prescott (AZ); Hybrid; USD 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Deercreekseniorliving is seeking a dedicated Cook to join our team and serve residents with quality meals and friendly service. The role involves following recipes, maintaining high sanitation standards, and supporting the Food Service Director with stock and meal prep.

Responsibilities include preparing meals for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, meeting resident dining expectations, and ensuring safety procedures are followed.

Qualifications

• Minimum of one year of cooking experience (some short order cooking).
• Serv-Safe certification required or willing to obtain upon hire.
• We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to protected characteristics.

Responsibilities

• Ensures efficient, timely, and friendly service to residents and staff.
• Maintains sanitation and safety procedures and high quality food preparation.
• Reads and follows recipes to ensure consistency.
• Prepares and serves breakfast, lunch or dinner as assigned.
• Assists with meeting or exceeding resident dining expectations.
• Keeps knowledge of dietary needs and meal prep techniques up to date.
• Follows food safety and equipment safety procedures.
• Demonstrates dependable, punctual, self-motivated work ethic.

Skills

Communication skills

Learning mindset

Dietary knowledge

Team player

Dependable

Education

Serv-Safe certification

Job description

Our senior living community is currently seeking a Cook to join our team of dedicated professionals who want to make a difference in the lives of our residents, their families and our community. We are guided by our CAPLICO Core Values: Celebration Accountability Passion for Learning Love One Another Intelligent Risk Taking Customer Second (Employee First!) Ownership If these core values resonate deeply with your own moral compass and you meet the requirements below, then you should apply.

About the Opportunity

• Ensures efficient, timely, and friendly service to all residents and staff.
• Maintains proper sanitation and safety procedures and high quality food preparation and presentation.
• Orders, receives, and rotates stock in conjunction with the Food Service Director.
• Reads and follows recipes to ensure consistency of the product.
• Prepares and serves food items for breakfast, lunch or dinner as assigned.
• Assists with meeting or exceeding resident dining expectations.
• Is knowledgeable in food preparation techniques and presentation.
• Other relevant duties may be required or assigned by Supervisor.

Critical Success Factors

• Ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing, and comprehend the same.
• Willingness to learn new food preparation techniques and presentation.
• Knowledge of special dietary needs of residents and the required meal prep techniques.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively with a team.
• Must display team behaviors.
• Ability to effectively deal with conflict or customer complaints.
• Ability to focus on multiple tasks simultaneously.
• Follows all food safety and equipment safety procedures.
• Knowledge of and compliance with community quality standards and requirements.
• Ability to "short order" cook.
• Must be dependable, punctual, self-motivated, and able to work without constant supervision.

Minimum Qualifications

• Minimum of one year of cooking experience (some short order cooking) and quantity cooking.
• Must possess Serv-Safe certification, or willing to obtain upon hire.

We are an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other protected characteristics.

The employer for this position is stated in the job posting. The Pennant Group, Inc. is a holding company of independent operating subsidiaries that provide healthcare services through home health and hospice agencies and senior living communities located throughout the US. Each of these businesses is operated by a separate, independent operating subsidiary that has its own management, employees and assets.

More information about The Pennant Group, Inc. is available at http://www.pennantgroup.com.

PSL is the most progressive company in the exploding healthcare services field today. Dedicated to restoring public confidence in the healthcare industry, PSL has assembled a team of highly competent, dedicated and caring individuals who are creating a new standard of excellence for healthcare providers everywhere. PSL currently serves over 50 long-term care, facilities in six Western states. These facilities have no corporate headquarters or traditional management hierarchy. Instead, they operate independently with support from the Service Center, a world-class service team that provides the centralized clinical, legal, risk management, HR, training, accounting, IT and other resources necessary to allow on-site leaders and caregivers to focus squarely on day-to-day care and business issues in their individual facilities.

As an organization, we are deeply committed to our mission of providing life-changing service to our residents, employees and the communities we serve.