Cook

Essential Duties

• Maintain kitchen and cooking area in a safe, orderly, clean and sanitary manner.
• Ability to prepare tasteful meals and to cook a variety of foods in large quantities.
• Ability to follow prepared menus and portion control guides.
• Ability to prepare special diets accurately.
• Record food temperatures for the meals.
• Prepare pureed foods.
• Work in cooperation and harmony with personnel in all departments.
• Maintain quaternary solution in sanitizer buckets.
• Aid with serving the different meals.
• Clean cooking area and serving carts.
• Report resident care concerns and potential issues to Administrator and/or Director of Nurses.
• Participate in the orientation and on-going training of dietary staff.
• Make the presentation of the food appealing to the residents.
• Cooperate and work under supervision.
• To make sure all cleaning schedules are followed.

Qualification

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Experience as a cook in a hospital or long term care facility for not less than one year.
• Ability to read technical procedures and recipes.
• Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios and proportions to practical situations.
• Reasoning ability to solve practical problems.
• Close, distance, color, peripheral, and depth perception in vision.

Supervisory Requirements

This job has supervisory responsibilities in the absence of the Dietary Supervisor.

Physical Demands

• Standing and /or walking very frequently.
• Sitting occasionally.
• Reaching with hands and arms frequently, pushing/pulling very frequently.
• Talking and /or hearing very frequently.
• Lifting up to 50 pounds frequently.
• Climbing, balancing, stooping, kneeling, crouching or crawling occasionally.

Knowledge And Experience

• Must obtain and maintain ServSafe Certificate.
• Preferred knowledge and experience with PCC.
• Must remain in good standing with the Department of Public Health.