Cook - Health Center

Position Summary

The Cypress of Charlotte is recruiting for a hospitality focused Cook to join our Health Center team! This position is responsible for full-scope, hands-on production cooking in the Culinary Services Department.

Primary Responsibilities

• Ability to work all stations in the kitchen.
• Efficiently runs assigned station during the shift, follow all specs, and stock food as needed.
• Maintains the quality of food and plate presentation.
• Prepares all soups, stocks, sauces; boils, braises and roasts items as per standardized recipes.
• Prepares and serves all sautéed, fried, grilled, steamed and baked items as per standardized recipes.
• Prepares or directs the preparation of all food served, following standard recipes and special diet orders.
• Plans food production to coordinate with meal serving hours, so that excellence, quality, temperature and appearance of food is preserved.
• Determines amount and type of food and supplies required for daily menus and sees that supplies are obtained from storage areas in adequate time for meal production.
• Safeguards all sanitation and health department guidelines by maintaining cleanliness of station and assigned areas of the kitchen.

Qualifications

• SERVSafe Certification preferred.
• Experience in hospital or senior living preferred.
• Knowledge and experience with mechanical diets, food restrictions, allergies, etc.
• Able to perform simple arithmetic and understand measurements and conversions.
• A minimum of three years’ experience as a cook in a hospital or nursing home/health center preferred, or hotel, restaurant, club or similar institution.
• Able to plan and organize work, to interpret instructions, recipes, specifications and standards.
• Knowledge of kitchen equipment operations and maintenance.
• Some knowledge of nutrition and diet.
• Must be able to effectively communicate, read, write, and follow oral and written instructions in English.