Prep Cook

Devereux Advanced Behavioral Health; Scottsdale (AZ); On-site; Full time

Job summary

Devereux Arizona seeks a dedicated Food Service Specialist to manage food service operations for its Residential Treatment Center. This full-time role involves preparing meals, maintaining kitchen cleanliness, and ensuring compliance with health standards. The position offers competitive pay and comprehensive benefits, including career advancement programs and generous paid time off.

Benefits

Career accelerator program

Paid time off (24 days per year)

Retirement and employee assistance programs

Quality low-cost benefits (medical, dental, vision)

Qualifications

• Must be 21 years of age or older.
• Minimum of one year of related experience in quantity cooking required.
• Valid Arizona Driver's License and pass DMV 36-month history check required.

Responsibilities

• Prepare and manage food service operations at the RTC.
• Maintain a clean, orderly, and sanitary kitchen environment.
• Monitor stock and place orders for shortages.

Skills

Record keeping

Customer service

Education

High School Diploma or GED

Tools

Food Handlers card

Job description

Description

Located on a beautiful 10-acre campus in the heart of Scottsdale, Devereux Arizona’s 24-hour Residential Treatment Center (RTC) has the capacity to serve 52 children. The RTC is a safe, supportive environment that provides various services to youth, from the ages of 5 to 17, who are experiencing emotional, behavioral, or substance abuse challenges. The Campus features dormitories, a therapeutic K-12 day school, food services, medical/nursing, and therapy services.

As a Food Service Specialist (Prep Cook), you will help prepare and manage food service operations while maintaining a clean, orderly, and sanitary kitchen environment. This position follows federal and state guidelines in the planning, preparing, and serving meals to individuals and staff at the RTC. The Food Service Specialist sets up workstations with all needed ingredients and cooking equipment, as well as prepares ingredients to use in cooking (chopping and peeling vegetables, cutting meat, etc.). This position ensures great presentation by dressing dishes before they are served, keeping a sanitized and orderly environment in the kitchen, ensures all food and other items are stored properly, and monitors stock and places orders when there are shortages. The Food Service Specialist also completes general kitchen cleaning duties (dishes, mopping, deep cleaning projects), organizing food storage areas, receiving deliveries, completing temperature check logs, and shift coverage as needed.

Pay: $18/hr - $19.80/hr

Full Time Schedule; must have ability to work afternoons/evenings and weekends

Benefits and Rewards

We strive to create an inclusive environment, and retain the talented employees who make our organization a great place to work. We offer:

• ASCEND – the first career accelerator program exclusively designed to give behavioral healthcare workers – the career guidance, one-on-one coaching, skills and financial assistance you need to reach your full potential. Full-time employees in career-aligned tracks receive 100% of tuition, fees and textbook costs, up to $15,000 for undergraduate classes (annually), and $25,000 for graduate-level classes(annually)

• Paid time off (24 days per year, increase with years of service); Sick time (64 hours per year)

• Retirement, eM Life for Mental Health and Work/Life Programs, Service Anniversary Awards

• Free access to Payactiv , a platform to get a portion of your earned wages between pay periods

• Employee Assistance Program and Employee Discounts – Available the first day of employment through Carebridge

• Quality Low-Cost Benefits (medical, dental, vision, pet insurance): 30-day benefit eligibility waiting period for new hires! http://benefits.devereux.org

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  Qualifications

  • Must be 21 years of age or older

  • High School Diploma or GED is required

  • Minimum of one (1) year related experience in quantity cooking required

  • Have a valid Food Handlers card OR the ability to obtain one

  • Record keeping experience and must be customer service oriented

  Other

  • Valid Arizona Driver's License & pass DMV 36-month history check

  • Pre-employment Physical and Job Demand Assessment (if applicable)

  • Drug test within 24hrs of offer w/ negative results

  • Must attend the one (1) week paid New Hire Orientation; Mon-Fri (8:30am-5:00pm) follow by 3 weeks of on the job training

  • Current AZ Fingerprint Clearance Card with no restrictions ( or eligibility to obtain with no restrictions). Arizona Revised Statues Notice (ARS 36-411 Residential care institutions; nursing care institutions; home health agencies; fingerprinting requirements; exemptions; definitions). If a person's employment record contains a six-month or longer time frame during which the person was not employed by any employer, a completed application with a new set of fingerprints shall be submitted to the department of public safety. For more information, visit HERE.

    Devereux has a zero-tolerance policy for abuse and maintains policies and procedures to systematically reduce the risk of abuse to occur in our organization. Devereux fosters a culture of reporting abuse, and will cooperate with the authorities to the fullest extent possible.

    Devereux is committed to the health and safety of our staff. All Devereux centers have formal infectious-disease and emergency-management plans tailored to specifically address the unique aspects of communicable disease prevention including COVID-19. Learn More: https://jobs.devereux.org/#covid .

    Posted Date 2 days ago (5/26/2025 12:22 PM)

    Requisition ID 2025-44535

    Category Food Services

    Position Type Full-Time

    The employment policies of Devereux Advanced Behavioral Health are to recruit and hire qualified employees without discrimination because of race, religion, creed, color, age, sex, marital status, national origin, citizenship status, ancestry, disability, veteran status, communication ability, gender identity or expression or sexual orientation and to treat them equally with respect to compensation and opportunities for advancement - including upgrading, promotion and transfer - consistent with individual skills and the needs of Devereux.