Cook 2 - Cottonwood, AZ

Cook food for patients, visitors, and staff in a hospital setting, following safe food handling techniques and recipes to provide optimal nutritional care and wellness.

Requirements

• Follows guidelines of preparation and recipes for all patients, cafeteria, and catering meals.
• Follows production tool and/or electronic meal tallies/differentials for food preparation.
• Comprehension of Specialty diets, Dysphagia, Low Sodium, Low Sugar, Clear Liquids, Liquids, and adaptive devices for disables patients.
• Must be adept at reading and comprehending complex dietary instructions provided by physicians and dieticians.
• Provides assistance to other work areas.
• Performs inspections daily to ensure food safety, adequate temperature checks and schedule changes.
• Delegates, and assigns tasks to Nutrition Assistant with assistance from supervisor.
• Assists the kitchen supervisor by performing lead functions in the department's operations.
• Stores and stocks food and supplies for department/other.
• Works patient room service, grill, deli, and retail, following therapeutic diet and allergy restrictions.
• Adheres to Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP).
• Follows the master cleaning guidelines.
• Adheres to food safety guidelines which are established by local health department standards.
• Adheres to established protocol for cleaning of all service ware: remove debris, wash, rinses, sanitize and air dry before storage.
• Adheres to time and temperature control during preparation, service, and storage of all food.
• Adheres to proper cleaning and maintenance of work station-clean, wash, rinse, and sanitize prior to start of preparation, during preparation, and at end of preparation.
• Adheres to physical safety standards.
• Responsible for reporting any safety-related incident in a timely fashion through the Midas/RDE tool; attends all safety-related training programs; performs work in a safe manner; monitors work environment for possible safety issues and ensures others are also performing work in a safe manner.
• Stays current and complies with state and federal regulations/statutes and company policies that impact the employee's area of responsibility.
• If required for the position, ensures all certifications and/or licenses are up-to-date and valid prior to expiration dates.
• Completes all company mandatory modules and required job-specific training in the specified time frame.
• Competent in therapeutic diet knowledge and demonstrates ability to follow diet modifications.
• Accurately completes all manual and electronic forms.