Cook PRN days

ScionHealth; United States; On-site; USD 19,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

Kindred Hospital Arlington is seeking a dedicated food service worker to prepare and serve meals for patients, staff and visitors in a LTAC setting. You will follow dietary orders and recipes, ensuring meals meet nutritional guidelines and safety standards.

This role emphasizes accurate portioning and timely service. Responsibilities include maintaining a clean, safe kitchen, following FDA food code guidelines, and collaborating with the culinary team to deliver high-quality patient meals.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of therapeutic diets and texture/liquid modification.
• Understanding of safe food handling and sanitation standards.
• Familiarity with federal, state, and local food codes and policies.
• Ability to communicate clearly with patients, families and staff.
• Skilled in preparing large quantities of food accurately.

Responsibilities

• Prepares food following standardized recipes, menus, and policies.
• Prepares and serves food ensuring correct portion sizes.
• Adheres to patient diet orders when serving meals.
• Follows standardized menus for patient and cafeteria meals.
• Uses production sheets to direct quantities and timing.
• Maintains proper meal service times and proper food temperatures.
• Labels and stores leftovers per policy, monitors temperatures.
• Washes dishes and sanitizes work areas; utilizes PPE as needed.
• Collaborates with team and participates in quality improvement.

Skills

Therapeutic diets

Food safety

FDA food code knowledge

Communication skills

Quantity cooking

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Kindred Hospital Arlington is a long-term acute care (LTAC) hospital specializing in the treatment of patients recovering from post-intensive care and medically complex conditions. Our hospital provides both intensive care and telemetry-level services, offering advanced monitoring and support for patients requiring extended medical care. With a multidisciplinary team dedicated to personalized treatment plans, we focus on helping patients achieve significant recovery and transition to the next level of care.

Job Summary

Prepares and serves food using proper food handling and safety techniques for patients, employees, and special functions, resulting in foods that meets the nutritional guidelines and safety standards set forth in the department policies and procedures. Maintains a clean and safe working environment in accordance with established standards and regulations.

Essential Functions

• Prepares food following department standardized recipes, planned menus, and policies and procedures.
• Serves and portions food per department standardized recipes, planned menus, and policies and procedures.
• Follows patient diet order when serving food to patients.
• Follow standardized menus for patient and cafeteria food preparation.
• Makes only authorized changes to the planned menu and records the change according to established policy.
• Uses production sheets to direct preparation and quantity of food.
• Preparation of food is done to meet established mealtimes
• Prepares and serves food at the proper temperature set forth by the FDA Food Code
• Ensures food served to patients has been properly labeled per policy.

Food Receiving, Purchasing, Storing

• Labels, dates, and stores food (including left overs) properly according to proper cool-down techniques and established policies.
• Takes refrigerator/freezer temperatures twice a day and reports any temperatures out of range immediately to supervisor. Records temperatures on appropriate logs.
• Assists in receiving, storing, and verifying invoices for incoming food, supplies, etc. as indicated by the supervisor/manager.
• Ensures that an adequate supply of food, supplies, etc. is available at all times. Reports inadequate stock levels to the supervisor/manager in a timely manner.
• Uses food supplies and equipment in an efficient and economic manner to prevent waste.

Safety and Sanitation of Work Environment

• Keeps work area clean and uncluttered during preparation and service of food.
• Performs cleaning assignments according to established policies and utilizes the proper cleaning chemicals.
• Performs duties using proper infection control techniques and using protective equipment as needed.
• Washes dishes, pots, and pans according to established procedures for manual and/or automatic dishwashing
• Takes dish machine temperature and/or sanitizer concentration prior to each use and records on log. Reports any problems with proper water temperature or sanitizer immediately to supervisor.
• Stores dishes, pots, and pans in the proper location, in a way to prevent contamination, and according to established standards.
• Operates equipment according to manufacturer and supervisory direction.
• Maintains equipment in clean and safe operating condition using appropriate safety measures and safety guards. Reports all equipment problems immediately to supervisor.
• Maintains the security of the department.
• Performs all duties using proper safety and sanitation techniques and wearing proper PPE.

Menu Management

• Check for new diet orders, discharges, room changes prior to each meal tray line assembly in medical record.
• Pass selective menus to patients assisting the patient with completion if needed.
• Using menu management computerized program to add new admissions, update patient information, edit menus, enter patient selections, print menus or reports, and generate tray tickets.

Other

• Works cooperatively as a team member with co-workers in all departments of the Hospital.
• Communicates issues, concerns, and opportunities for improvement to immediate supervisor routinely.
• Assumes the leadership in the kitchen when assigned by supervisor.
• Participates in the hospital's Performance Improvement program by collecting quality data when assigned by Supervisor.
• Participates in the survey process; honestly answers questions asked by surveyors.
• Participates in corrective action plan as directed by Supervisor.

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities/Expectations

• Knowledge of therapeutic diets and texture / liquid modification
• Knowledge of safe food handling
• Knowledge of federal, state, and city food codes and regulations
• Knowledge of Kindred Nutrition & Culinary Services policies and procedures
• Skilled in quantity cooking
• Ability to communicate effectively with patients and their family members, and at all levels of the organization with excellent oral and written communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to be accurate, concise, and detail oriented.
• Basic computer skills with working knowledge of Microsoft Office and ability to lear