Dietary Cook

Dietary Cook

Autumn Woods Healthcare Facility is excited to announce our new alliance with MediLodge as their sister facility! We are accepting applications for a Dietary Cook to join our team. Are you looking for a rewarding career and a stable company to call home? Autumn Woods cooks are passionate about creating superb meals for the elderly. Our dietary cooks have the esteemed honor of creating meals to exact specifications to ensure the nutrition needs of our residents are met.

Close attention to detail is paramount to our food service team as they verify that the proper food is made for the right resident looking out for allergies, special needs, and requests. Our ideal candidate is passionate about good food and has had some experience cooking in a restaurant capacity. Other duties that our dietary cooks assist with are, taking part in cleaning routines, inventory, and other duties as assigned.

What We Offer You? At Autumn Woods, we understand that our employees work best when they are healthy, happy, and excited about the here and now, as well as the future. For that reason, we offer a wide range of benefits with your well-being in mind, including competitive wages that increase for years licensed, excellent career advancement opportunities that meet your goals, highmark blue cross blue shield for fulltime employees, medical, guardian dental and vision, benefits for you & your family, employee benefits navigator to guide you in maximizing your benefits, paid vacation days with rollover option, sick time, and holidays, and 401k retirement.

Summary: The Dietary Cook prepares and serves food using proper food handling and food safety techniques for residents, as well as employees and special events that tastes good and is served at the proper temperature and in an attractive manner in accordance with established standards. Maintains a clean and safe working environment in accordance with established standards.

Qualifications: Education: Minimum of tenth grade or above, GED or high school diploma or above preferred. Licenses/Certification: ServSafe food safety certification preferred, or other food safety certification as required in state or county of facility. Experience: Six months' experience in large quantity food preparation. Experience with therapeutic diet preparation preferred.

Job Functions: Reviews menus prior to preparation of food. Prepares food for regular and therapeutic diets according to the planned menu, as well as employees and special events, as instructed by the supervisor. Prepares alternative items to meet residents' individual needs and food preferences. Prepares and/or portions food using proper food handling and food safety techniques according to established policies, procedures, guidelines, and regulations. Prepare food in accordance with sanitary regulations as well as our established policies and procedures. Makes only authorized changes to the planned menu and records the change according to established policy. Ensures that food tastes good and is served at the appropriate temperature in an attractive, appetizing manner. Ensure that menus are maintained and filed in accordance with established policies and procedures. Utilizes standardized recipes to prepare menu items. Performs other tasks as assigned.

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities: Knowledge of safe food preparation, handling techniques, and basic nutrition of food. Skilled in quantity food production and utilize basic math skills. Ability to communicate effectively with residents and their family members and at all levels of the organization. Ability to be accurate, concise, and detail-oriented. Ability to read, speak, understand, and communicate effectively in English through verbal and written means.