Cook ~ Senior Living Community ~ PRN ~ Houston

Cook ~ Senior Living Community

Make a difference by providing great care and love for our treasured residents!

At MorningStar Senior Living, we obsess about culture. Without a transformative culture, we cannot elevate and celebrate the lives of our resident-heroes, and be ourselves changed for the good in the process. We seek great hearts who care and want to do work that matters. We select people who believe that the most satisfying life is one that is outward-bound and rooted in servant-leadership.

Job Summary

The cook is responsible for preparation, cooking, seasoning, and serving adequate, attractive, nutritious, and balanced meals, including meat, fish, fowl, vegetables, fruit, soups, salads, desserts, breads, and pastries, as specified and scheduled by the menus. The person holding this position is delegated the responsibility for carrying out the assigned duties and responsibilities in accordance with current existing federal and state regulations and established company policies and procedures.

Position Overview

Handle and prepare food that is palatable, appetizing, and attractive.

Comply with meal schedules.

Follow standard recipes, but make independent decisions in line with current experience.

Understand importance of proper food-handling techniques and hazards of improper food handling.

Be familiar with seasoning and cooking time required.

Be aware of cooking characteristics of various cuts of meats, fish and fowl.

Estimate quantities of food required and apportion servings while monitoring portion controlled guidelines for individual residents.

Prepare foodstuffs for cooking: Peel, wash, trim, and cut vegetables and fruit; wash, cut, de-bone and trim meat, fish and fowl.

Taste, smell, and observe food to ensure conformity with recipes and appearance.

Serve food according to dietary guidelines, checking each tray for completeness and accuracy.

Cook food: Bake, roast, stew and steam-cook meats, fish and fowl, basting as necessary to retain flavor; make gravies, stocks, dressings, sauces and soups.

Prepare cold meats, sandwiches, griddle cakes, cooked cereals, and beverages.

Qualifications

Demonstration of our Core Values: Love, Kindness, Honesty, Goodness, Fairness, Respect.

Education: High school diploma preferred, but at the minimum the ability to read and write English.

Experience: Previous experience in the dietary department of health care facility preferred.

Job Knowledge: Ability to prepare and cook a variety of foods in large quantities; aware of special diets, seasoning requirements, cooking times, temperature controls; ability to estimate quantities of food required, limit waste, and utilize leftovers while serving attractive, appetizing meals.

Benefits

• Health Insurance offerings such as medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Other Insurance offerings such as life, disability, accident, and critical illness insurance
• 401k plan with matching
• HSA options
• Employee assistance programs
• Paid sick, vacation and birthday!
• Career development programs and opportunity for advancement
• Charitable and philanthropic opportunities
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Free shift meal!