Dining Services Cook II

University of Kansas Health System; Westwood (KS); On-site; USD 20,664,000 - 27,552,000; Full time

Job summary

University of Kansas Health System in Westwood, KS, seeks a Dining Services Cook II to prepare nutritious meals for patients and staff. The role covers a standard Monday–Friday schedule, with no weekends or holidays, and requires ability to follow menus, recipes, and safety standards in a busy hospital setting.

Responsibilities include completing cooking processes, maintaining HACCP-compliant storage, and supporting cafeteria and catering operations while ensuring quality and safety in every

Qualifications

• Experience as a cook in a hospital, restaurant, or large-volume setting.
• Basic reading, writing and math skills.

Responsibilities

• Completes the cooking process of menu items with basic technical skills according to daily worksheets and recipes.
• Demonstrates competence in critical thinking, interpersonal relationships, and technical skills.
• Prepares food for inventory and service, including portioning, wrapping, labeling, and dating items.
• Ensures proper storage and rotation of inventories following HACCP and department standards.
• Maintains a safe and sanitary food preparation/service environment.
• Tests and evaluates new recipes and adjusts work hours to meet cafeteria or catering needs.

Skills

Cooking

Food safety

Teamwork

Education

High School Diploma or GED

Job description

Position Title

Dining Services Cook II

Westwood Medical Pavilion - West

Position Summary / Career Interest:

Prepare large volumes of food for both patients and hospital staff. It is the Dining Services Cook II's job to prepare food that is nutritious and desirable so that patients and employees will get the food intake. These individuals prepare food for a preset menu, may make a variety of meals from a small menu, and/or prepare special meals for patients who require therapeutic diets.

Specific shift needed: Monday-Friday 6:30am-3pm, No weekends, and no holidays

Responsibilities and Essential Job Functions

• Completes the cooking process of menu items requiring basic technical skills, such as soups, meats, vegetables, desserts and other foodstuffs using daily worksheets and standardized recipes.
• Demonstrates competence in the areas of critical thinking, interpersonal relationships, and technical skills.
• Demonstrates ability to provide care/service safely and efficiently for the care of each patient.
• Performs duties in Food Production and/or the Cafeteria.
• Organizes daily production in unit.
• Prepares food for inventory and/or service including portioning, wrapping, labeling, dating food items prepared for patients, cafeteria, and/or catering according to unit standards.
• Ensures proper storage and rotation of inventories in refrigerators and freezers following HACCP and department standards.
• Maintains a safe and sanitary food preparation/service environment per unit standards.
• Tests and evaluates new recipes,
• Adjusts work hours to early or late to prepare needed Cafeteria or Catering products.
• Must be able to perform the professional, clinical and or technical competencies of the assigned unit or department.
• These statements are intended to describe the essential functions of the job and are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities. Skills and duties may vary dependent upon your department or unit. Other duties may be assigned as required.

Required Education and Experience

• Some experience as a cook in a restaurant, institutional or large volume feeding.

Preferred Education and Experience

• High School Graduate or GED.
• 1 or more years of experience as a cook in a restaurant, institutional or large volume feeding.

Knowledge Requirements

• Basic reading, writing and simple mathematics.

Time Type:

Full time

Job Requisition ID:

R-56918

Important information for you to know as you apply:

• The health system is an equal employment opportunity employer. Qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), national origin, ancestry, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other legally-protected status. See also Diversity, Equity & Inclusion.
• The health system provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities. If you need to request reasonable accommodations for your disability as you navigate the recruitment process, please let our recruiters know by requesting an Accommodation Request form using this link .
• Employment with the health system is contingent upon, among other things, agreeing to the health-system-dispute-resolution-program.pdf and signing the agreement to the DRP.