Cook Full-Time

Forefront Healthcare; Madison (MS); On-site; USD 17,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

Forefront Healthcare is seeking a full-time Cook to prepare meals for residents, families, and staff in a healthcare setting.

You will follow standardized recipes, monitor temperatures, and ensure quality and safety standards are met, while maintaining production sheets and waste logs throughout each shift.

Qualifications

• Experience in food preparation and serving in a healthcare or institutional setting preferred.
• Ability to follow standardized recipes, portioning, and presentation standards.
• Commitment to food safety, sanitation, and regulatory requirements.

Responsibilities

• Prepare meals for residents, families, and staff according to recipes and procedures.
• Monitor temperatures of hot and cold foods and ensure safety standards are met.
• Tastes meals for quality and maintains daily production worksheets and waste logs.
• Assist in ordering, storage, and rotation of supplies and equipment as needed.
• Support the Chef Manager/Director and participate in department meetings.

Skills

Food prep

Food safety

Team player

Attention to detail

Job description

The Cook prepares food in accordance with current applicable federal, state, and local standards, guidelines, and regulations, with established policies and procedures and assuring patient safety. Assists in all preparation of resident, family, and employee meals, helps deliver and take orders as needed. May be directed by the Chef Manager and/or Director.

• Follows standardized recipes, portioning, menu extensions, and presentation standards.
• Completes and utilizes daily production worksheets and waste log sheets.
• Tastes completed meals to ensure quality standards.
• Monitor temperature of hot and cold foods through food preparation and service to ensure that established temperature goals are met prior to steam table transfer and maintained throughout meal service.
• In the absence of the Chef Manager or Director, checks and inspects food products and supplies as delivered.
• Supervise and assist in storage of supplies and food products.
• Notify Chef Manager or Director of supplies or equipment needs.
• Report equipment breakdowns and unsafe conditions to the Chef Manager or Director.
• Complies with federal, state, and local health and sanitation regulations and department sanitation procedures as evidenced through local health department and third-party audits.
• Perform other department duties assigned by the Chef Manager/Director.
• Responsible for acting in conformance with all facility and departmental policies and procedures, including those relating to Human Resources, Code of Ethics and Business Conduct, Health and Safety regulations, Compliance requirements, Patient Rights, Confidentiality, and HIPAA. Responsible for acting in conformance with accrediting agency standards.
• Attends department meetings as required.
• Demonstrates accountability to accept responsibility for personal/professional growth and any required certifications/licenses, if applicable.
• Completes mandatory training and competencies annually.

Forefront will not discriminate based on race, color, sex, height, weight, disability, national origin, religion, marital status, pregnancy, military service, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, or any other protected class in its hiring practices, conditions for transfer or promotion, policies, discipline, discharge, terms, conditions or benefits of employment.

Position Type

Full-time

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