Prep Cook

SEH Saint Elizabeth Medical Center•Edgewood, KY

51d•Onsite

About The Position

St. Elizabeth Healthcare is hiring a Prep Cook/Nutrition Assistant to join our Edgewood Nutrition Services Team. This role involves preparing raw ingredients, setting up food stations, and producing simple dishes like salads, sandwiches, and desserts. The position requires demonstrating respect, dignity, kindness, and empathy in all interactions with patients, families, visitors, and colleagues. The role also emphasizes adherence to food safety, sanitation, and quality standards, as well as maintaining a clean work environment and reporting equipment maintenance needs.

Requirements

Ability to read with comprehension and follow written and verbal instructions
None required

Nice To Haves

Demonstrate respect, dignity, kindness and empathy in each encounter with all patients, families, visitors and other employees regardless of cultural background.

Responsibilities

Determine daily production following established par levels and procure food from storage areas.
Utilize cold food preparation equipment such as deli slicer, food processor, manual dicer/slicer, scales and measuring devices.
Maintain organization and ability to multi-task.
Wash, peel, cut and prepare raw ingredients as required.
Demonstrate proper knife skills for vegetable and fruit preparation.
Qualify fruits and vegetables for proper ripeness, lack of spoilage and/or appetizing visual appeal of all items before serving.
Make simple items such as salads, sandwiches and desserts.
Set up cold food assembly tables, work stations or salad bars.
Package grab and go items and stock in self-service displays.
Apply effective use of safety equipment to prevent injuries.
Monitor equipment for defects, damage or misuse and report maintenance needs to supervisors.
Maintain equipment for proper use.
Monitor temperatures of 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, cold prep equipment, storage bins, cutting boards, refrigeration equipment, floors, walls, ceilings, trash bins, cardboard, side towels, and station cleaning and sanitizing solutions.
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.
Performs other duties as assigned.