Cook | Hospital - Casual

CentraCare•Saint Cloud, MN

1d•$19 - $29•Onsite

About The Position

CentraCare is seeking experienced cooks to join their Hospital Nutrition team in a Casual capacity. This role involves preparing meals for patients, visitors, employees, and catered events while adhering to standardized recipes, food safety guidelines, and departmental procedures. The ideal candidate will possess strong customer service skills and support CentraCare's commitment to Family Centered Care. Prior cooking experience in a restaurant, healthcare, long-term care, catering, or other high-volume food production setting is required. Applicants are asked to indicate their preferred availability.

Requirements

Prior cooking experience in a restaurant, healthcare, long-term care, catering, or other high-volume food production setting.
High School Diploma or GED.
In lieu of post high school training, one year cooking or related experience in our hospital or similar institution, restaurant or catering production will be accepted.
Food Safety Training accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI)-Conference for Food Protection (CFP). Can be ServSafe or TAP Series within 1 1/2 Yrs Required.
Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions and procedure manuals.
Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent.
Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral or diagram form. Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.

Nice To Haves

Post High School Degree Post high school specialized training in volume and/or institutional cooking preferred.
Technical or cooking school certificates. preferred
Knowledge of sanitation and HACCP preferred.

Responsibilities

Prepare meals for patients, visitors, employees, and catered events.
Follow standardized recipes, food safety guidelines, and departmental procedures.
Demonstrate exceptional customer service.
Support CentraCare's commitment to Family Centered Care in every interaction.