Food Service Cook (FT AM)

Lexington Medical Center; West Columbia (SC); On-site; USD 17,000 - 21,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Day ONE medical insurance

FSAs (Health care and dependent care)

403(b) retirement plan match

Employer paid life insurance

Adoption assistance

Short-term disability

Long-term disability

Student loan forgiveness

Job summary

Lexington Health is seeking a Food Service Cook to support patient meals, cafeteria, retail operations, and catered functions with timely, accurate food preparation in a hospital setting.

The role requires following recipes, working in a fast-paced environment, and maintaining high standards of cleanliness and safety across all kitchen duties.

Qualifications

• Minimum education: none.
• Able to work in a fast-paced environment with good time management skills.
• Ability to follow recipes consistently as listed and provided.
• Possess great customer service skills and knowledge of basic kitchen equipment.
• Understanding of basic food service safety guidelines (temperature danger zone, HACCP, sanitation).

Responsibilities

• Prepares food based on specific directions including modified diet restrictions.
• Follows recipes accurately to prepare foods in correct quantity and quality.
• Plans and organizes work to ensure food is ready, garnished, and on the line as scheduled.
• Cleans and sanitizes food service equipment according to schedule.
• Completes prep work for the following day.

Skills

Time management

Customer service

Follow recipes

Kitchen safety

Math skills

Tools

Basic kitchen equipment

Job description

Select how often (in days) to receive an alert:

Patient Meals
Full Time
Day Shift
5am-8pm

Lexington Health is a comprehensive network of care that includes six community medical and urgent care centers, nearly 80 physician practices, more than 9,000 health care professionals and Lexington Medical Center, a 607-bedteachinghospital in West Columbia, South Carolina. It was selected by Modern Healthcare as one of the Best Places to Work in Healthcareand was first in the state to achieve Magnet with Distinction status for excellence in nursing care. Consistently ranked as bestin the Columbia Metroarea by U.S. News & World Report, Lexington Healthdelivers more than 4,000babies each year, performs more than 34,000surgeries annually and isthe region's third largest employer.

Lexington Health also includes an accredited Cancer Center of Excellence, the state’s first HeartCARE Center, the largest skilled nursing facility in the Carolinas, and an Alzheimer’s care center.Its postgraduate medical education programs include family medicine and transitional year residencies, as well as an informatics fellowship.

Job Summary

The Food Service Cook is a fast paced, hands on position. They perform the general cooking duties needed for preparing food items throughout the hospital. Follows recipes to prepare all food items necessary for patients, cafeteria, retail operations, catered functions, or the Child Development Center in a timely fashion.

Minimum Qualifications

Minimum Education: None.
Minimum Years of Experience: 1Years of experience in cooking
Substitutable Education & Experience (Optional): In lieu of 1 year of cooking experience, consideration will be given to internal candidates with 1 year of experience within LMC as a Nutrition Associate upon review of applicable skills/training
Required Certifications/Licensure: None.
Required Training: Demonstrate basic mathematical skills; Able to work in a fast paced environment with good time management skills; Ability to follow a recipe consistently as list and provided; Possess great customer service skills; Requires knowledge of basic kitchen equipment; Understanding of basic food service safety guidelines such as temperature danger zone, haccp, proper storage of product, sanitation, etc.

Essential Functions

• Prepares food based upon specific direction which includes modified diet restrictions.
• Follows recipes accurately to prepare foods in the correct quantity and quality (taste, temperature, etc.).
• Plans and organizes work schedule to ensure that food is ready, garnished, and on the line as scheduled.
• Cleans and sanitizes food service equipment according to schedule using proper cleaning agents.
• Completes prep work for the following day.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Maintains an optimistic and professional image and exhibits excellent customer relations to patients, visitors, physicians, and coworkers.
• Shows courtesy, compassion and respect. Conforms to Service Excellence Policy and Service Expectations.
• Demonstrates appropriate communication of information to all ages and responds to all customer/patient requests and needs, i.e., hard of hearing, etc.
• Any and all other duties as assigned. May be asked to work interdepartmentally.
• Must keep work area neat and clean at all times. Responsible for area during inspections.
• Performs all other duties as assigned.

We are committed to offering quality, cost-effective benefits choices for our benefit eligible employees and their families:

• Day ONE medical, dental and life insurance benefits
• Health care and dependent care flexible spending accounts (FSAs)
• Employees are eligible for enrollment into the 403(b) match plan day one. LHI matches dollar for dollar up to 6%.
• Employer paid life insurance – equal to 1x salary
• Employee may elect supplemental life insurance with low cost premiums up to 3x salary
• Adoption assistance
• LHI provides its full-time employees employer paid short-term disability and long-term disability coverage after 90 days of eligible employment
• Student loan forgiveness

Equal Opportunity Employer
It is the policy of Lexington Health to provide equal opportunity of employment for all individuals, and to remain compliant with applicable state and federal laws and regulations. Lexington Health strives to provide a discrimination-free environment, and to recruit, select, on-board, and employ all employees without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, disability, national origin, veteran status, or pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions, including but not limited to, lactation. Lexington Health endeavors to upgrade and promote employees from within the hospital where possible and consistent with the employee’s desires and abilities and the hospital’s needs.