Cook (Dining Services III) - Veterans Community Living Center Fitzsimons - Aurora, CO
Cook (Dining Services III) - Veterans Community Living Center Fitzsimons - Aurora, CO
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Department Information
- This position is open to current Colorado residents only.Please note: This recruitment may be used to fill multiple vacancies.Office of Adult Aging and Disability ServicesColorado Veterans Community Living Center at FitzsimonsColorado Veterans Community Living Center (VCLC) at Fitzsimons is a beautiful 180-bed skilled nursing facility serving Colorados veterans. We strive to honor and respect those living in our community through companionship and person-centered care while providing a comfortable and safe place to live. At Fitzsimons we provide long-term care short-term rehab and have a secured memory care neighborhood and are conveniently located on the medical campus with UC Hospital and the Aurora VA Medical Center. Fitzsimons celebrates a low 14% staff turnover rate and substantial longevity among staff.Visit us online at: in below to receive text message updates on CDHS recruiting events!
Description of Job
The work unit exists to provide quality care to residents by meeting or exceeding the standards as prescribed by the Veterans Administration and the Colorado Department of Public Health. This work unit exists to provide full dining services for 180 nursing home residents catering and staff meals. Responsible for three balanced nutritious meals daily meeting all dietary needs of all residents as per physician orders ensuring meals are served timely at the correct temperature and accurately maintaining diet cards within state and federal regulations. Additionally the work unit maintains a sanitary and safe work unit.
This position functions independently in performing a full range of responsibilities that include but are not limited to cooking meals in the main and satellite kitchens serving residents cleaning sanitation and related tasks. This includes following generally accepted and facility food service standards. This position performs a variety of heavy manual labor food service duties including but not limited to cleaning and sanitizing the kitchen the kitchen equipment utensils dishes pots and pans. The position requires heavy lifting manual labor long periods of standing and walking which includes delivering the food to the satellite kitchens. This position helps to stock and maintain par levels in the storeroom coolers and freezers.
Additionally as a Dining Services III (Cook) you can expect to:- Provides excellent customer service to all internal and external customers.
- Communicate immediately and directly with the food service director regarding any department concerns.
- Main kitchen sanitation. Cleans each piece of equipment after each use and cleans kitchen equipment and floors at the end of each shift.
- Washes and sanitizes pots and pans wash down walls racks and floors in walk-in refrigerators. Cleans and sanitizes all kitchen food service equipment.
- Collects and disposes of trash and maintains dumpster trash area.
- Follows standardized recipes to prepare meals to appropriate temperatures and textures: pureed mechanical regular hot and cold items.
- Cleans dining room tables and sanitizes cleans chairs washes dishes and silverware and puts them away
- Prepares all aspects of meals to food safety standards visual appeal and palatability for residents.
- Prepares enough of all menu items for residents and prepares enough therapeutic diets in the appropriate texture and temperature.
- Follows the therapeutic worksheets for correct portion sizes and texture.
- Monitors all food temperatures and records on proper form while food is removed from the oven/ cooling unit before the items leave the main kitchens and provides solutions to aid(s) for discrepancies in food temps.
- Prepare and serve residents in private dining rooms as needed and on special occasions delivers foods as required to proper units
- Prepares and distributes resident snacks and supplements to all neighborhoods.
- Clean record temperatures and sanitize all unit refrigerators.
- Monitors the aides when they clean and sanitize the satellite kitchens and unit areas.
- Assist food service supervisor in inventorying supplies and foods (perishables and non-perishables) freezer and storeroom.
- Assist in keeping the storeroom main kitchen and cooling units clean and free of empty boxes
- Monitors temperatures of the main kitchen satellites and other appropriate areas where food is served and maintains daily records.
- Notifies the supervisor on duty when refrigerators are not within acceptable parameters (below 40 degrees for refrigeration and zero for the freezer).
- Check all storage areas for labels and dates check all leftover foods in refrigerators for expiration dates discards all outdated food and snacks as required by policies and procedures.
- Attend scheduled in-services trainings and meetings trains new employees on the functions of the job and provide feedback to the food service Manager on the proficiency of the new employee
- Other duties as assigned.
Minimum Qualifications Substitutions Conditions of Employment & Appeal Rights
Experience Only:- Two (2) years of relevant experience in an occupation related to the work assigned to this position
Preferred Qualifications & DesirableCompetencies:Experience in food service Certification of Servsafe Class
Experience working in a hospital or living center
Knowledge of health operational requirements hazards and precautionary measures taken within a food service unit
Knowledge of institutional food service procedures and practices
Knowledge of weights measures (e.g. food scales measuring cups and spoons) and food measurement techniques
Knowledge of techniques used in mixing food (e.g. gelatin pancake batter salad dressing scrambled eggs etc.)
Knowledge of meat and vegetable preparation methods (clean cut cube grind peel dice grate slice and chop and tenderize)
Knowledge of cooking methods (e.g. frying deep-fat frying boiling or baking)
Knowledge of the use of kitchen utensils in serving or portioning meals
Knowledge of food safety related to handling and storing cooked foods serving and storing temperatures or reading food thermometers
Ability to read English at the level necessary for interpreting understanding and scaling written recipes menus nourishment labels diet slips portioning sheets and policies and procedures
Ability to understand and execute oral and written instructions
Ability to use and operate a gas rotary or convection oven safely and effectively.
Interpersonal skills and teamwork skills
Conditions of Employment:- CDHS employees (all Direct contact with vulnerable persons): CBI name check and fingerprint check ICON Colorado court database Medicare fraud database Reference Checks Professional License verification (licensure requirements) Drug Screen PREA (Division of Youth Services)Trails check (direct contact with children) CAPS (direct contact with adults Mental Health Institutes Regional Centers Veterans Community Living Centers)
- Shift Work: Day Evening Weekends
- Must be willing to test for Tuberculosis (TB) test.
- Shift work including days evenings weekends or holidays.
- Use Handling or Exposure to hazardous materials: oven cleaner sanitizer and bleach
- Former State employees who were disciplinarily terminated or resigned in lieu of termination must (1) disclose that information on the application (2) provide an explanation why the prior termination or resignation should not disqualify the applicant from the current position (3) provide the employee number from the applicants prior State employment. Absent extraordinary circumstances prior disciplinary termination or resignation in lieu of termination and failure to provide this information will disqualify the applicant from future State employment with CDHS.
Appeal Rights:
If you receive notice that you have been eliminated from consideration for this position you may file an appeal with the State Personnel Board or request a review by the State Personnel Director.
An appeal or review must be submitted on the official appeal form signed by you or your representative. This form must be delivered to the State Personnel Board by email () postmarked in US Mail or hand delivered (1525 Sherman Street 4th Floor Denver CO 80203) or faxed (303.866.5038) within ten (10) calendar days from your receipt of notice or acknowledgement of the departments action.
For more information about the appeals process the official appeal form and how to deliver it to the State Personnel Board; go to; contact the State Personnel Board for assistance at ; or refer to 4 Colorado Code of Regulations (CCR) 801-1 State Personnel Board Rules and Personnel Directors Administrative Procedures Chapter 8 Resolution of Appeals and Disputes atunder Rules.
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About Us:
If your goal is to build a career that makes a difference consider joining the dedicated people of theColorado Department of Human Services(CDHS). Our professionals strive to design and deliver high quality human and health services that improve the safety independence and well-being of the people of addition to a great location and rewarding and meaningful work we offer:
Strong secure yet flexible retirement benefits including aPERA Defined Benefit Plan or PERA Defined Contribution Planplus 401(k) and 457 plans
Employer supplementedHealth Savings Account
Paid life insurance
Short- and long-term disability coverage
11 paid holidays per year plus vacation and sick leave
Excellent work-life programs such as flexible schedules training and more
Remote work arrangements for eligible positions
*Some positions may qualify for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program. For more
information go to Values:
We believe in a people-first approach:To serve the people of Colorado we develop a culture and work environment that creates an energized inspired and healthy team capable of giving their best to Coloradans.
Balance creates quality of life:We want our team to be resilient through a supportive workplace that values flexibility health and wellness and employee engagement.
We hold ourselves accountable:We take responsibility through our actions programs and results for the state of health and human services in Colorado.
Transparency matters:We are open and honest with employees our partners the Coloradans we serve and the public.
We are ethical:We abide by what is best for those we serve by doing what is right not what is easy.
Collaboration helps us rise together:We work together with all partners employees and clients to achieve the best outcomes for Coloradans.
We are committed to increasing the diversity of our staff and providing culturally responsive programs and services. Therefore we encourage responses from people of diverse backgrounds and abilities.
ADA Accommodations:CDHS is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment our agency will assist individuals who have a disability with any reasonable accommodation requests related to employment including completing the application process interviewing completing any pre-employment testing participating in the employee selection process and/or to perform essential job functions where the requested accommodation does not impose an undue hardship. If you have a disability and require reasonable accommodation to ensure you have a positive experience applying or interviewing for this position please direct your inquiries to our ADA Coordinator Nancy Schmelzer at or call 1-.
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