Cook Full Time Days

BHS Baptist Healthcare System; Springlee (KY); On-site; USD 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Baptist Health Louisville is seeking a Food Service Cook within the Food & Nutrition Services department. The role prepares and cooks retail and patient meals and ensures safe, sanitary handling of all food and equipment in a 24/7 department that serves patients, staff, and visitors.

We value high-volume food preparation experience and a high school diploma or equivalent, with opportunities for growth, tuition reimbursement, and a pathway to broader hospital careers.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent preferred.
• 5 or more years of experience in high volume food preparation is preferred.
• If you would like to be part of a growing family focused on supporting clinical excellence, teamwork and innovation,

Responsibilities

• Prepares and cooks retail and / or patient meals
• Handles food in a safe and sanitary manner.
• Uses food service equipment properly and safely.
• Participates in activities to improve Food and Nutrition services.

Skills

Experience in high-volume food prep

Food safety practices

Education

High school diploma or equivalent

Job description

Summary

Weekly Hours: 32 Shift: 1st Status: Full Time Department Marketing Statement Food & Nutrition Services offers nourishing meals to patients, visitors, and Baptist Health Louisville employees. The department has about 120 employees and operates 24-hours a day/seven days a week. It provides great employment opportunities for growth and development within the department and hospital. Food & Nutrition Services can be a stepping stone to careers in healthcare. Employees may take advantage of tuition reimbursement opportunities and become medical professionals. With a clean work record, many have transferred to other departments within the hospital to start brand new career paths while many have stayed and found the department is just right for them.

Responsibilities

• Prepares and cooks retail and / or patient meals
• Handles food in a safe and sanitary manner.
• Uses food service equipment properly and safely.
• Participates in activities to improve Food and Nutrition services.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent preferred.
• 5 or more years of experience in high volume food preparation is preferred.
• If you would like to be part of a growing family focused on supporting clinical excellence, teamwork and innovation,

Baptist Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer.

Company Background

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.

EEO Statement

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.

Notice of Nondiscrimination 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.

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