Cook
Tifton, Georgia
Employer: Tift Regional Medical Center
Industry:
Salary: Competitive
Job type: Full-Time
DEPARTMENT: FOOD SERVICES
FACILITY: Tift Regional Medical Center
WORK TYPE: Full Time
SHIFT: Daytime
HOURS:
SUMMARY:
The Cook is responsible for providing excellence customer service to all patients and guests, maintaining a kitchen environment to the standards of state and federal regulatory authorities, and providing quality food and presentation to all guests and patients. They must be able to open/close the kitchen properly. They oversee and demonstrate the preparation of hot/cold food for patients, residents, retail, catering, and special events to ensure recipe and portion compliance to meet nutritional needs. They monitor compliance with food temperature standards and HACCP requirements. They ensure proper and efficient handling of all inventories, including proper storage, rotation, covering, labeling, and dating, to ensure waste reduction and budget optimization.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
* Is able to demonstrate proper hand washing and understand when hand washing is necessary and required.(i.e. Between handling raw meat and other food items).
* Practices FIFO - "First In, First Out" method.
* Properly records all food temperatures using thermocouple and uses time as temperature control when necessary.
* Properly labels, wraps, and dates all items within the department.
* Maintains cleanliness throughout the kitchen and production areas during entire shift and ensures that all equipment is clean and in working order.
* Prevents eating surfaces of dishware from coming in contact with staff clothing. Handles cups/glasses on the outside of the container; and knives, forks, and spoons by the handles.
* Demonstrate use of Green/Clean, and Red/Sanitizer buckets, cleaning up and leaving no visible signs of food items remaining on prep areas or in cabinet surfaces.
* Demonstrate the proper way to set-up 3 compartment sink by knowing temperatures of each sink (110°F), ratio of sanitizer strength (200ppm), and 60-second contact time for Quat Sanitize.
* Properly opens the kitchen as well as being prepared for the day or evening shift.
* Maintains all food items in fresh and attractive manner.
* Understand and follow prescribed diet orders, menu spreadsheets, and corresponding recipes, as well as portion sizes and serving utensils for all diets on menu.
* Is able to demonstrate by showing the different levels of therapeutic diets.
* Understands menu substitutions and use of nutritionally equivalent foods.
* Monitors portion sizes of meal components to ensure that meals are nutritionally adequate.
* Provides required substitutions or modifications in meals for patients whose special needs restrict their diets.
* Maintains a safe work environment.
* Use safety standards for using equipment and maintaining facilities, to ensure the safety of facility floors, aisles and walkways by elimination factors that can cause safety hazards.
* Determines amounts to be prepared and stocked via production sheets, patient counts, and other provided data.
* Keeps abreast of all pertinent federal, state and facility regulations, laws and policies as they presently exist and as they change or are modified.
* Understands and adheres to compliance standards as they appear in the Corporate Compliance Policy, Code of Conduct, and Conflicts of Interest Policy.
* Demonstrates the ability to perform tasks that meet the age-specific requirements of the persons, patients, vendors, and staff that the employee is charged to interact with as required by the position.
* Offers suggestions on ways to improve operations of department and reduce costs.
* Attends all mandatory education programs.
* Improves self-knowledge through voluntarily attending continuing education/certification classes.
* Maintains required competency levels as identified in written exams, skills checklists, skills labs, annual safety and health requirements as well as service excellence education hours requirements.
* Willing to cross-train in order to better assist co-workers and to provide maximum efficiency in department.
* Volunteers/participates on hospital committees, functions, and department projects.
* Manages resources effectively.
* Reports equipment in need of repair in order to extend life of equipment.
* Makes good use of time so as to not create needless overtime.
EDUCATION:
* High School Diploma
or
*GED
OTHER INFORMATION:
Two (2) years of relevant experience preferred.
Southwell/Tift Regional Health System, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
FACILITY: Tift Regional Medical Center
WORK TYPE: Full Time
SHIFT: Daytime
HOURS:
SUMMARY:
The Cook is responsible for providing excellence customer service to all patients and guests, maintaining a kitchen environment to the standards of state and federal regulatory authorities, and providing quality food and presentation to all guests and patients. They must be able to open/close the kitchen properly. They oversee and demonstrate the preparation of hot/cold food for patients, residents, retail, catering, and special events to ensure recipe and portion compliance to meet nutritional needs. They monitor compliance with food temperature standards and HACCP requirements. They ensure proper and efficient handling of all inventories, including proper storage, rotation, covering, labeling, and dating, to ensure waste reduction and budget optimization.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
* Is able to demonstrate proper hand washing and understand when hand washing is necessary and required.(i.e. Between handling raw meat and other food items).
* Practices FIFO - "First In, First Out" method.
* Properly records all food temperatures using thermocouple and uses time as temperature control when necessary.
* Properly labels, wraps, and dates all items within the department.
* Maintains cleanliness throughout the kitchen and production areas during entire shift and ensures that all equipment is clean and in working order.
* Prevents eating surfaces of dishware from coming in contact with staff clothing. Handles cups/glasses on the outside of the container; and knives, forks, and spoons by the handles.
* Demonstrate use of Green/Clean, and Red/Sanitizer buckets, cleaning up and leaving no visible signs of food items remaining on prep areas or in cabinet surfaces.
* Demonstrate the proper way to set-up 3 compartment sink by knowing temperatures of each sink (110°F), ratio of sanitizer strength (200ppm), and 60-second contact time for Quat Sanitize.
* Properly opens the kitchen as well as being prepared for the day or evening shift.
* Maintains all food items in fresh and attractive manner.
* Understand and follow prescribed diet orders, menu spreadsheets, and corresponding recipes, as well as portion sizes and serving utensils for all diets on menu.
* Is able to demonstrate by showing the different levels of therapeutic diets.
* Understands menu substitutions and use of nutritionally equivalent foods.
* Monitors portion sizes of meal components to ensure that meals are nutritionally adequate.
* Provides required substitutions or modifications in meals for patients whose special needs restrict their diets.
* Maintains a safe work environment.
* Use safety standards for using equipment and maintaining facilities, to ensure the safety of facility floors, aisles and walkways by elimination factors that can cause safety hazards.
* Determines amounts to be prepared and stocked via production sheets, patient counts, and other provided data.
* Keeps abreast of all pertinent federal, state and facility regulations, laws and policies as they presently exist and as they change or are modified.
* Understands and adheres to compliance standards as they appear in the Corporate Compliance Policy, Code of Conduct, and Conflicts of Interest Policy.
* Demonstrates the ability to perform tasks that meet the age-specific requirements of the persons, patients, vendors, and staff that the employee is charged to interact with as required by the position.
* Offers suggestions on ways to improve operations of department and reduce costs.
* Attends all mandatory education programs.
* Improves self-knowledge through voluntarily attending continuing education/certification classes.
* Maintains required competency levels as identified in written exams, skills checklists, skills labs, annual safety and health requirements as well as service excellence education hours requirements.
* Willing to cross-train in order to better assist co-workers and to provide maximum efficiency in department.
* Volunteers/participates on hospital committees, functions, and department projects.
* Manages resources effectively.
* Reports equipment in need of repair in order to extend life of equipment.
* Makes good use of time so as to not create needless overtime.
EDUCATION:
* High School Diploma
or
*GED
OTHER INFORMATION:
Two (2) years of relevant experience preferred.
Southwell/Tift Regional Health System, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Created: 2024-08-22
Reference: 5076
Country: United States
State: Georgia
City: Tifton
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