Cook - 2nd Shift Full Time

Because Our Promise is to love and care for your family as we do our own…and this extends to our team members too!
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Schedule: Full-Time Availability
The Cook is responsible for preparing appealing, nutritious, and properly portioned food for all residents and guests in accordance with production sheets, standardized recipes, preparation methods, portion control, time schedules, sanitary standards, and serving procedures.
Attends daily production meetings, tasting and menu classes to gain understanding of food production requirements of upcoming meal periods.

• Prepares hot and cold food items for the residents, guests, and personnel according to daily menus and food production sheets. Prepares food items for residents with modified diets.
• Prepares food for transportation from the production areas to dining areas in accordance with safe food handling practices.
• Instructs servers on proper handling, storage, portioning, plating, and serving of food items.
• Assists with labeling and storing bulk food and supply orders upon delivery. Labels and stores "ready to eat" and prepared foods in accordance with safe food handling and HACCP requirements.
• Assists in monthly inventories of food and other supplies.
• Maintains work area and equipment in a clean and orderly condition throughout the work shift and performs required shift closing and periodic cleaning tasks as assigned. Assists with performing utility related tasks as directed by the shift supervisor.
• Attends in-service training sessions together with co-workers to keep abreast of current knowledge in the field of nutrition and dietary needs, safe food handling, culinary skills and procedures, and operation and maintenance of equipment.
• Attends training courses and participates in other professional development activities as required.
• Report any suspicion or evidence of elder abuse, mistreatment or neglect as outlined in Personnel Policies.

Minimum of (1) year in similar position, with preferable retirement living or home-care background.

• Ability to work flexible hours including weekends, evenings, rotating shifts, and occasional overtime.
• Certified in safe food handling.
• Requires ability to stand and walk short and long distances for extended periods of time.
• The kitchen environment is subject to noise, interruptions and distractions and requires the ability to concentrate and handle a multitude of tasks.
• High degree of safety awareness as work environment involves potential physical risks that include cuts from utensils, burns, falls due to wet floors, quick temperature changes in and out of refrigeration areas and around steam tables.