Cook - Evening Shift

CHSGa•Peachtree City, GA

About The Position

The Cook prepares and serves meals in a healthcare and rehabilitation setting, following menus created by dieticians, standardized recipes, and residents’ diet orders. The role includes preparing food in large quantities for older adults, ensuring meals are ready and served on time, and accommodating specialized and therapeutic diets, substitutions, and food preferences. The Cook also performs kitchen sanitation and equipment-cleaning tasks, monitors food storage and kitchen temperatures, checks stock, and helps maintain safe and orderly food-service operations. The position requires a constant pace and may involve filling gaps in kitchen staffing. The Cook communicates with associates, patients, family members, and visitors in a helpful and professional manner, and may contribute to committees, workgroups, projects, and other System initiatives.

Requirements

Ability to read and understand menus and diet orders, including NPO orders.
Ability to read and interpret safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
Ability to write routine reports and correspondence and speak effectively before groups of customers or associates.
Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
Ability to apply common-sense understanding to written, oral, or diagrammed instructions and address problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.
Proficiency with Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft Word.
Ability to meet the described physical demands, with reasonable accommodations where applicable.

Nice To Haves

High school diploma or equivalent preferred.

Responsibilities

Prepare foods according to dietician-created menus and standardized recipes.
Operate kitchen equipment, including mixers, meat slicers, food processors, ovens, and steamers.
Prepare meals in large quantities appropriate for older adults, using institutional-sized cookware.
Work at a steady pace so food is ready for each meal and ensure meals are prepared and served on time.
Follow infection-control policies and keep equipment and work areas clean.
Clean work surfaces, sweep floors, wipe counters, cover and store unused foods, and properly store leftovers and opened food.
Assist on the food-service line and ensure diets are served as ordered, including specialized and therapeutic diets and individual likes and dislikes.
Monitor and serve meals using appropriate portion-control equipment.
Assist with processing diet changes and new diets; understand and process diet orders, including NPO orders.
Provide substitutes for people who refuse the food served, and record menu substitutions according to procedures.
Properly scrape and wash dishes, pots, and pans; set up the tray line and perform tray-line service; return trays to the kitchen if requested.
Record freezer and walk-in refrigerator temperatures and check and record water temperatures.
Check stock, put stock away appropriately, and store cleaning materials appropriately.
Make coffee or tea as requested and follow procedures for serving associate meals.
Follow cleaning and operating procedures for kitchen equipment and fixtures, including carts, counters, the ice machine, blender, mixer, slicer, appliances, dish machine, and steam table.
Check the dishwasher using sanitizer strips, monitor chemical levels, and replace chemicals when needed.
Report needed repairs to the maintenance department.
Communicate warmly and professionally with associates, patients, family members, and visitors; respond helpfully to concerns and questions.
Contribute to committees, workgroups, project management, and other collaborative efforts, and perform other duties as needed.