Cook - Dietary

Cook at Providence St. Vincent Medical Center

Provides courteous, friendly food service to a variety of user groups including employees, visitors, physicians, and patients. Their primary focus will be on preparing hot and cold food items using a variety of prep and production cooking equipment, following scratch recipes and department specifications. They will follow the recipes as required but if serving on a retail cooking line or as a room service cook will often be asked to tailor individual items according to special customer and/or patient requests. They must comply with all hospital and department standards and must become fully knowledgeable about - and compliant with - all specific regulatory requirements in food service and in a health care environment.

Providence caregivers are not simply valued they're invaluable. Join our team at Providence St Vincent Medical Center and thrive in our culture of patient-focused, whole-person care built on understanding, commitment, and mutual respect. Your voice matters here, because we know that to inspire and retain the best people, we must empower them.

Required Qualifications:

• National Food Handler Card - State County City Authority upon hire.
• 3 years - Working in a high volume, full service restaurant or institutional food service facility working in a production cooking capacity.
• 2 years - Experience working from scratch recipes and experience prepping and portioning items needed in the production process.
• Experience working successfully in a team environment to accomplish common goals.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Coursework/Training - 12 months formal culinary education/degree.
• 2 years - Experience assisting with recipe development and the creation of daily specials for all service/meal periods in a large food operation.
• 2 years - Experience using food production software (i.e. computrition), and ability to update recipes and production methods in the data base.
• 1 year - Experience as production "lead" or experience working in other leadership capacity in a full service restaurant or large institutional food service facility.
• More years of diversified cooking experience which includes any combination of the following positions: line/grill/broiler cook, production cook, soup or saut cook (12-18 month formal culinary education may be substituted for part of this requirement).
• Experience in a USDA or HACCP production facility.

Why Join Providence?

Our best-in-class benefits are uniquely designed to support you and your family in staying well, growing professionally, and achieving financial security. We take care of you, so you can focus on delivering our Mission of caring for everyone, especially the most vulnerable in our communities.

Accepting a new position at another facility that is part of the Providence family of organizations may change your current benefits. Changes in benefits, including paid time-off, happen for various reasons.

About Providence

At Providence, our strength lies in Our Promise of "Know me, care for me, ease my way." Working at our family of organizations means that regardless of your role, we'll walk alongside you in your career, supporting you so you can support others. We provide best-in-class benefits and we foster an inclusive workplace where diversity is valued, and everyone is essential, heard and respected. Together, our 120,000 caregivers (all employees) serve in over 50 hospitals, over 1,000 clinics and a full range of health and social services across Alaska, California, Montana, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas and Washington.

About the Organization

Providence has been serving the Pacific Northwest since 1856 when Mother Joseph of the Sacred Heart and four other Sisters of Providence arrived in Vancouver, Washington Territory. As the largest healthcare system and largest private employer in Oregon, Providence is located in areas ranging from the Columbia Gorge to the wine country to sunny southern Oregon to charming coastal communities to the urban setting of Portland. Our award-winning and comprehensive medical centers are known for outstanding programs in cancer, cardiology, neurosciences, orthopedics, women's services, emergency and trauma care, pediatrics and neonatal intensive care. Our not-for-profit network also provides a full spectrum of care with leading-edge diagnostics and treatment, outpatient health centers, physician groups and clinics, numerous outreach programs, and hospice and home care. Providence is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to the principle that every workforce member has the right to work in surroundings that are free from all forms of unlawful discrimination and harassment on the basis of race, color, gender, disability, veteran, military status, religion, age, creed, national origin, sexual identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, genetic information, or any other basis prohibited by local, state, or federal law. We believe diversity makes us stronger, so we are dedicated to shaping an inclusive workforce, learning from each other, and creating equal opportunities for advancement.