Full-time Cook

Onyx Care; Bernice (LA); On-site; USD 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Onyx Care of Bernice is seeking a Dietary Cook to support our dietary department in providing nutritious meals to residents in a post-acute rehabilitation setting.

You will assist in food preparation, follow safety protocols, and help maintain a clean, safe kitchen environment while serving meals and supporting tray assembly for residents.

Qualifications

• High school diploma typically required; culinary certification or relevant training is an asset.
• Minimum 2 years’ experience in culinary role, preferably in a healthcare or institutional setting
• Proficiency in food preparation, cooking techniques, and know

Responsibilities

• Assist cook and follow production sheets for meals.
• Prepare and portion nourishments, desserts, and beverages as directed.
• Maintain cleanliness and sanitation of kitchen and dining areas.
• Serve meals to residents and assist with tray setup and cleanup.

Skills

Culinary skills

Food preparation

Food safety

Sanitation

Education

High school diploma

Job description

Dietary Cook

Job Description

Dept: Dietary

Reports to: Food Service Director

W/H Class: Non-Exempt, Hourly

Job Summary

Join our talented team at Onyx Care of Bernice, a post-acute rehabilitation facility committed to providing exceptional patient care. As a Dietary Cook, you will play a vital role in ensuring the nutritional needs of our patients are met, while maintaining a clean and safe kitchen environment.

Residents Rights

• Knows and respects patientrights.
• Ensures all protected health information is keptconfidential.
• Reports all complaints made by patients tosupervisor.
• Reports all allegations of resident abuse, neglect and/or misappropriation of patientproperty.

Safety and Sanitation

• Uses Standard Precautions as outlined in policies and procedures.
• Follows established safety policies andprocedures.
• Observes safety needs of patients as indicated in careplan.
• Wears and/or uses safety equipment and supplies when indicated and properly trained touse.
• Demonstrates job-specific knowledge of fire and disaster preparedness during drills or actualsituations.
• Operates, cleans and stores kitchen equipment in a safe manner.
• Identifies location of MSDS for chemicals used.Is familiar with eye wash station.

Food Preparation/Production Responsibilities

• Assists cook as directed by the food service director.
• Prepares and labels nourishments according to center procedures.
• Prepares and portions desserts, salads and other non‑entrée foods into dishes; pours beverages.
• Follows production sheets and pre-preparation sheets or guidelines when appropriate.

Sanitation Responsibilities

• Sweeps and mops kitchen floors as assigned.
• Takes trash to dumpster.
• Washes dishes and silverware according to dishwashing procedure.
• Puts clean dishes and silverware away.
• Maintains clean, neat, and orderly work areas.
• Assists with cleaning of equipment, dishes, silverware and kitchen as assigned.
• Washes pots and pans if assigned.
• Completes cleaning assignments.

Meal Service Responsibilities

• Sets dining room tables for meals when assigned.
• Works on meal tray serving line.Sets-up before start of meal service.Breaks down area and cleans-up at end of serving line.
• Reads and follows tray tickets when serving meals.
• Serves meal trays to patient and pours beverages for patients when assigned to dining room.
• Clears tables of dishes and trash.
• Pushes food carts to appropriate patient care areas.
• Communicates with patients during meal times when serving in dining areas.

Food Safety Responsibilities

• Uses safe food handling techniques as identified in state and federal codes and regulations.
• Uses proper hand washing techniques.
• Thaws food appropriately.
• Stores food using correct packaging and labelling.
• Uses gloves appropriately and changes when required.
• Checks refrigerators and freezers for correct temperature.
• Follows the cleaning schedule.
• Cleans the equipment and work areas after each use.
• Cools, stores and reheats cooked foods according to procedures.
• Does cleaning assignments.
• Maintains neat, clean and orderly work areas.

Experience

• A high school diploma is typically required; culinary certification or relevant training is an asset.
• Minium of 2 years’ experience in culinary role, preferably in a healthcare or institutional setting
• Proficiency in food preparation, cooking techniques, and know

Physical Demands

• Lifting50poundsmaximumwithfrequentlifting,moving,and/orcarryingofobjectsweighingupto25pounds.Stooping, standing, walking, smelling, color, vision, reaching, handling, fingering and pushing.

General Requirements

• Must be able to execute the terms and conditions set forth in the Onyx Healthcare Employee Handbook, including, but not limited to: Worksinasafety-consciousmanner,whichensuresthatsafeworkpracticesareusedinordernottoposearisk to self or others in the workplace. Reports any safety violations or hazards tosupervisor
• Complies with company policies and procedures and local, state, and federalregulations
• Adheres to policy on Drug-FreeWorkplace
• Interacts in a tactful, diplomatic, and humanistic manner with residents, families, visitors, and co-workers to provide a safe, efficient, and therapeutically effective caring environment which ensures the self-respect, personal dignity, rights and physical safety of each resident and facilityguest
• Maintainsadependableattendancerecordandadherestostandardsofcleanliness,grooming,hygiene,and dresscode.
• Takes positive action to ensure equal opportunity in the conduct of all business activities without regard to race, color,religion,sex/gender,age,nationalorigin,disability,citizenship,veteranstatusoranyotherlegallyprotected category.