Cook - Health Care

Elizabeth Healthcare
Elizabeth Healthcare, every role supports our mission to provide comprehensive and compassionate care to the communities we serve. Elizabeth Healthcare has been a trusted provider of quality care across Kentucky, Indiana, and Ohio. We're guided by our mission to improve the health of the communities we serve and by our values of excellence, integrity, compassion, and teamwork. Competitive pay and comprehensive health coverage within the first 30 days.

• Generous paid time off and flexible work schedules
• Retirement savings with employer match
• Tuition reimbursement and professional development opportunities
• Prepares food for patients, staff, and catered meals in a safe and sanitary manner. Use standardized recipes, proper portioning, and frequent checking for quality standards.

Estimate amount to be served and obtain food from storage areas, convert recipes to yield appropriate quantity. Production: Utilize basic cooking skills such as: sautéing, grilling, baking, steaming, poaching, microwaving and other techniques as required to produce recipes. Season and cook food according to recipes and/or experience, determine doneness using methods such as tasting, cooking time/temperature, or reading internal temperature with thermometer.
Read and prepare food orders in a timely and accurate manner. Portion, arrange and garnish food using proper utensils. Kitchen Safety: Monitor equipment for defects, damage or misuse and report maintenance needs to supervisors. Maintain equipment for safe and proper use to prevent injuries.
Food Safety: Monitor temperatures of hot and cold food items, properly label, date, rotate, and store all food items according to policy. Handle ready to eat items applying knowledge of safe service to account for cross-contamination, food allergens, time/temperature sensitivity, and for serving a high risk population.
Maintain clean and sanitary work area by monitoring tables, shelves, drawers, cooking equipment, storage bins, cutting boards, refrigeration equipment, floors, walls, ceilings, trash bins, cardboard, side towels, oven mitts, station cleaning and sanitizing solutions.
Quality: Compliance with all local, state, federal and medical center regulatory, safety, sanitation and security standards. Participate in performance improvement (PI) studies, assist with data collection and supports action plans.
12 months in food service preparation

Join us, and you'll take pride in the level of care we offer our community.