Cook Full-Time, $1,000 Sign on Bonus

Rogerson Brand•Jamaica Plain, MA

6d•Onsite

About The Position

This position is responsible for and actively participates in food preparation for all meals and snacks for residents/participants, ensuring quality and good presentation. The role involves the timely completion of food production and service, understanding and ensuring specific therapeutic dietary needs of residents/participants, and working closely with the Food Service Director to maintain therapeutic diets and nutritional meals while adhering to state and local health regulations. The Cook also assists in maintaining food service equipment, ensuring it is sanitary, safe, and in good working order. This role requires reporting for shifts in uniform and on time, communicating and coordinating with the Food Service Director and other managers for food service events, and coordinating meal service schedules with other department directors and staff. The Cook is responsible for the organization and cleanliness of dietary storage areas, conducting pre-meal meetings with dietary staff, monitoring safe food handling techniques, and completing necessary logs and reports. The position also involves ensuring proper storage of leftovers, communicating with the Food Service Director about departmental issues, attending staff meetings and in-services, and performing other duties as assigned.

Requirements

High School diploma or equivalency.
Must be able to effectively communicate with residents and staff.
Must possess the ability to deal tactfully with personnel, residents, family members, visitors, ect.
Must be able to follow oral and written instructions.
1-2 years of cooking experience.

Responsibilities

Responsible for and actively participate in food preparation for all meals and snacks for residents/participants providing quality and good presentation.
Timely completion of production and service of foods.
Understand and ensure specific therapeutic dietary needs of residents/participants.
Work closely with Food Service Director to maintain therapeutic diets, ensure nutritional meals for residents/participants and follow suggestions for meeting state and local health regulations.
Responsible for assistance in maintenance of all food service equipment, keeping it sanitary, safe and in good working order.
Report for shifts in uniform and at scheduled time.
Communicate and coordinate with Food Service Director and other managers for food service activity events and ensure timeliness and quality for those events.
Coordinate schedule of meal service with Assisted Living and Day Program Directors, Nurse Coordinator and ensure timeliness of meal preparation, serving, and procedure of dietary service staff when serving meals.
Ensure organization and cleanliness of all dietary storage areas in main kitchen.
Premeal meetings with all dietary staff on menu item ingredients food handling techniques and service instructions.
Monitor safe food handling techniques on a regular basis and ensure food safety.
Completion of temperature logs and cooks daily report.
Ensure immediate and safe storage of leftover food after all meals.
Refer to schedule of special functions and events on dietary board and communicate with appropriate manager regarding dietary needs for functions and ensure timeliness, quality and schedule in director’s absence.
Communicate with Food Service Director on a regular basis any information, issues or concerns affecting the Food Service Department, employees or food service deliveries.
Attend and participate in all staff orientations, department staff meetings and monthly in-services.
Maintain food service temperature sheets and daily cooks report.
Must be available for special community events when designated and assure quality presentation, taste, and service of food.
Perform other duties as assigned or requested from time to time by supervisor or other managers.