Cook - Mathews

101 Riverside Hospital, Inc.; Riverside (OH); On-site; USD 23,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

101 Riverside Hospital, Inc. is hiring a Cook to support patient and guest meals, preparing hot and cold menu items, and ensuring proper portion control and presentation.

You will follow recipes, maintain food safety, sanitation, and quality standards, and work to deliver a memorable dining experience while upholding therapeutic menus and allergy guidelines for patient care.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma or GED required; Culinary Arts program preferred.
• At least 1 year of food preparation experience in high-volume settings such as restaurants, hotels, or healthcare kitchens.
• Allergen Awareness Certification and Food Handler or Food Protection Manager certification as required by VA state.

Responsibilities

• Prepare food items for patient and non-patient services following recipes and production plans.
• Maintain knowledge of food safety, sanitation, and regulatory requirements to prevent contamination.
• Ensure proper temperatures, quality, sanitation, and storage at all steps.
• Provide memorable dining experiences and attentive patient/customer service.
• Follow therapeutic menus and allergy guidelines to meet physician orders.
• Prepare special requests and complete prep work like slicing, salads, grill, pizzas.
• Serve on patient tray and cafeteria lines with correct portion control.

Skills

Food safety

Sanitation

Meal preparation

Teamwork

Education

High School Diploma or GED

Culinary Arts program graduate

Job description

Mathews, Virginia Hiring Range $16.80 - $21.83/Hourly Actual pay is determined based on job-related factors such as relevant experience, education, credentials, skills, internal equity, and business needs.

Overview

The Cook performs duties related to meal services to include preparation of hot and cold menu items, proper portion control and delivery of menu items. Is knowledgeable in food safety, sanitation, and quality standards. Ensure patients/residents, guests and customers are provided a memorable food and dining experience above and beyond their expectation. Promotes and maintains a safe work environment for team as well as our customers.

What you will do

Prepare food items for both patient (or residents as applicable) and non-patient food services, following all production plans, recipes and cooking instructions to provide consistent, high quality menu items and meet guidelines established by management.

Maintain a working knowledge of food safety, infection control and sanitation regulatory compliance requirements and Department policies & procedures, following all necessary guidelines to prevent cross-contamination or foodborne illness.

Consistently comply with food temperature, quality, sanitation & storage at all key steps in the process (i.e. cooking, chilling, holding & storing).

Demonstrate accountability for ensuring availability of information necessary to ensure positive patient/customer outcomes providing them with service above and beyond expectations to ensure a memorable food and dining experience.

Demonstrate positive interaction and support to all team members, to provide seamless, timely, and accurate meal service to the patient/resident/customer.

Demonstrate a basic knowledge to follow therapeutic menus and allergy guidelines, to ensure patients/ residents receive consistent quality nutritional care within their therapeutic guidelines and as ordered by the physician as well as provide for the safety of food served to all customers.

Prepare all special request food items, as necessary.

Demonstrate the competence to complete prep work including, but not limited to slicing deli meat, chopping vegetables, preparing salads and sandwiches, short order grill cook, specialty pizza prep etc.

Serve on the patient tray line and cafeteria serving line using proper portion control and plating techniques.

Demonstrate a knowledge of weights and volume measurements.

Demonstrate the proper use of all kitchen equipment and possesses the skill set to select the appropriate piece of equipment to complete the assigned food preparation.

Demonstrate the competency to properly clean and sanitize equipment and work area.

Qualifications

Education High School Diploma or GED, (Required) Program Graduate, Culinary Arts (Preferred)

Experience 1 year Food preparation experience preferably in a high volume restaurant, hotel or healthcare kitchen (Preferred)

Licenses and Certifications Allergen Awareness Certification - VA State - ANSI-approved Allergen Awareness certificate program within 180 Days(Required) Food Handlers Card (FH) - VA State - ANSI-approved Food Handlers certificate program within 30 Days(Required) or Food Protection Manager - VA State - ANSI approved Food Protection Manager Certification - VA State (Required)

If loving your work is important to you, consider a career at Riverside.

By joining our team, you can make a difference in people's lives.

Our mission is to care for others as we would care for those we love.

We extend that sense of caring to every patient, resident and customer, as well as to each member of our team.

We offer care at all stages of life, in hundreds of locations, giving you room to grow your career, along with great benefits and perks.

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