Cook - Per Diem - Varied Shifts

About the role

As one of the nation's Top 15 Health Systems, recognized by Premier and Modern Healthcare, Valley Health is a place where excellence, compassion, and purpose come together. This distinction reflects our commitment to exceptional patient care, clinical quality, and the caregivers who make it all possible.

Responsibilities

• Prepares food for meals on the correct day at the correct time.
• Ensures that the food is not prepped too far in advance.
• Weigh and measure all ingredients for each recipe placing in safe and sanitary locations until needed.
• Follows established procedures using recipes, yield charts, and equipment operation instructions to produce the best quality of food.
• Follows proper food handling techniques, such as wearing gloves and hair net, washing hands regularly, especially after a trip to the restroom, wearing an apron, warning fellow employees of hot surfaces and sharp objects, and avoiding cross contamination or leaving a workstation unsupervised to prevent a fellow employee from cross contaminating food and work areas.
• Ensures all food items are prepared, stored, thawed, and held under proper time and temperature constraints.
• Reads ingredients and directions carefully.
• Takes food temperatures carefully and correctly.
• Ensures that the portion sizes are correct and presented neatly on the plate.
• Listens and focuses on the dietary needs to ensure the correct meal is plated.
• Cleans the station when finished for the next employee.
• Assists as manager deems necessary.
• Develops ideas that improve job performance as well as others.
• Develops ideas that improve the quality of food and service to customers.
• Assists with recipe development and testing.
• Attends department meetings.
• Demonstrates a willingness to cross training on other nutritional service jobs in and outside of the kitchen.
• Cleans carefully using sanitation techniques after working at a particular station.