Cook

St. Elizabeth Healthcare•Lawrenceburg, IN

10d•Onsite

About The Position

St. Elizabeth Healthcare is seeking a Cook to prepare food for patients, staff, and catered meals in a safe and sanitary manner. This role involves using standardized recipes, proper portioning, and frequent checking for quality standards. The Cook will demonstrate respect, dignity, kindness, and empathy in all interactions. The position is a Regular, full-time role with 40 scheduled hours per week.

Requirements

Ability to read with comprehension and follow written and verbal instructions
12 months in food service preparation

Responsibilities

Estimate amount to be served and obtain food from storage areas, convert recipes to yield appropriate quantity.
Wash, peel, cut, and prepare raw ingredients.
Use proper knife skills for meats, produce, and portion sizing.
Set up station to meet service times, demonstrating organization and ability to multi-task.
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, determining doneness using methods such as tasting, cooking time/temperature, or reading internal temperature with a thermometer.
Read and prepare food orders in a timely and accurate manner.
Portion, arrange, and garnish food using proper utensils.
Support team production to meet service needs.
Maintain professionalism at all times, including busy periods and emergencies.
Monitor equipment for defects, damage, or misuse and report maintenance needs to supervisors.
Maintain equipment for safe and proper use to prevent injuries.
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.
Ensure 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 support action plans.
Performs other duties as assigned.