Cook

Cook

The Town's nursing facility, Our Island Home, seeks a Cook to help prepare and handle resident meals and will be responsible for oversight of the dietary aides, ensuring proper preparation/delivery of all meals. The position reports to the Food Service Supervisor.

Qualifications: High School degree or GED equivalent. Completed ServSafe course. Knowledge and skill in using common kitchen equipment such as various utensils, appliances, and cleaning devices. Ability to perform standardized tasks on a regular basis, often repetitively with frequent interruptions. Interest in working with the elderly is essential.

Full Time; Benefits; SEIU Union Starting Hourly Rate: $27.92 (new hires) - $35.33 (employees with 18 years of service with the Town of Nantucket) The Town of Nantucket offers a retirement pension through Barnstable County Retirement, 90% employer-sponsored health insurance plan options, and a diverse selection of supplemental insurance policies.

Application Deadline: Sunday, October 11, 2026 at 4 pm

The Cook assists the Food Service Supervisor with the preparation and handling of food and leads all dietary aides, ensuring proper preparation and delivery of all meals. Employee is required to perform all similar or related duties.

Supervision Required: Under the general supervision of the Food Service Supervisor, the employee is familiar with the work routine and uses initiative in carrying out recurring assignments independently with specific instruction. The supervisor provides additional, specific instruction for new, difficult or unusual assignments, including suggested work methods. The employee is expected to recognize instances which are out of the ordinary and which do not fall within existing instructions; the employee is then expected to seek advice and further instructions. Reviews and checks of the employee's work are applied to an extent sufficient to keep the supervisor aware of progress, and to ensure that completed work and methods used are technically accurate and that instructions are being followed.

Supervisory Responsibility: The employee, as a regular part of the job, is required to lead other employees assisting them in the completion of their assigned work. The employee also performs non-supervisory work that is of the same kind and level as is done by subordinates being supervised. The employee is not responsible for taking any disciplinary action.

Confidentiality: Has access to some confidential information obtained during the performance of regular position responsibilities in accordance with the state public records law and HIPAA.

Accountability: Consequences of errors, missed deadlines or poor judgment may include adverse public relations, missed deadlines, personal injury and danger to public health/safety.

Judgment: Well-defined or detailed rules, instructions, and procedures cover all aspects of work. Judgment involves choosing the appropriate practices, procedures, regulations or guidelines to apply in each case.

Complexity: The work consists of a variety of duties which generally follow established, standardized practices, procedures, regulations or guidelines. The sequence of work and/or the procedures followed vary according to the nature of the transaction and/or the information involved, or sought, in a particular situation.

Work Environment: The work environment involves everyday discomforts typical of a nursing home and kitchen environment including having to work with sharp utensils as well as mechanical or electrical hazards. Noise or physical surrounding may be distracting and involve frequent interruptions but conditions are generally not unpleasant. Often required to work beyond normal business hours.

Nature and Purpose of Public Contact: The majority of interaction is with internal co-workers and Town employees and requires ordinary courtesy and tact. Employee interacts with co-workers to give and receive information regarding work. Contact with the public takes place on an occasional basis.

Occupational Risk: The employee is exposed to personal injury when performing duties in a kitchen environment where the employee is exposed to sharp utensils, hot stoves as well as mechanical and electrical hazards personal injury could occur, however, through employee failure to properly follow safety precautions or procedures. Examples of injury include minor bruises from falls, minor cuts or burns, or minor muscular strains from lifting or carrying heavy equipment or materials.