Experienced Cook

We are a 146-bed facility with a home-like environment and a new 30-bed rehab wing. We are the 2025 AHCA Silver Award Winner.

About the role

The Dietary Cook performs specified duties to maintain high standards of quality food preparation, production, service, and portion control, using standardized recipes, for all customers in a long-term care facility.

Responsibilities

• Assists in receiving and storing food and supplies to prevent waste and assure quality products. Dates, labels, and stores items properly. Uses proper food handling techniques.
• Reviews menus, therapeutic menus, recipes, and production sheets before preparing meals; prepares and serves diets properly, accurately, and attractively as planned using proper portions and special diet items.
• Follows standardized recipes and special diet orders, preparing sufficient quantities to meet all service requirements.
• Tests and tastes foods of all consistencies for proper appearance, flavor, aroma, and temperature and adjusts if needed.
• Ensures timing of preparation of meals/snacks to meet time schedules for service, so all meals/snacks are served as scheduled.
• Checks trays for accuracy of diets, preferences, and quality before they are delivered. Serves on tray line and delivers carts to floors as needed.

Requirements

• Experience as a cook in a long-term care facility required.
• Healthcare food service experience required.

Benefits

• Earned Time Off
• Holiday Incentive Pay
• Health, Dental, Vision, Disability, and Life insurance
• 401k with generous company contributions
• Uniforms provided
• Advancement opportunities

Pay

Competitive compensation with performance wage rate increases.

Schedule

Full-time, varied shifts.

Work Location: Springfield Rehabilitation and HealthCare Center, 2800 S Fort Ave, Springfield, MO 65807