Cook

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Why Youll Love Working with St. Elizabeth Healthcare

At St. Elizabeth Healthcare every role supports our mission to provide comprehensive and compassionate care to the communities we serve. For more than 160 years St. Elizabeth Healthcare has been a trusted provider of quality care across Kentucky Indiana and Ohio. Were guided by our mission to improve the health of the communities we serve and by our values of excellence integrity compassion and teamwork. Our associates are the heart of everything we do.

Benefits That Support You

We invest in you personally and professionally.

Enjoy:

- Competitive pay and comprehensive health coverage within the first 30 days.

- Generous paid time off and flexible work schedules

- Retirement savings with employer match

- Tuition reimbursement and professional development opportunities

- Wellness mental health and recognition programs

- Career advancement through mentorship and internal mobility

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Job Description:

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• Preparation: Estimate amount to be served and obtain food from storage areas convert recipes to yield appropriate quantity. Wash peel cut and prepare raw ingredients. Use proper knife skills for meats produce and portion sizing. Set-up to station to meet service times. Demonstrate organization and ability to multi-task.

• Production: Utilize basic cooking skills such as: sautéing grilling baking steaming poaching microwaving and other techniques as required to produce recipes. Season and cook food according to recipes and/or experience determine doneness using methods such as tasting cooking time/temperature or reading internal temperature with thermometer.

• Service: Read and prepare food orders in a timely and accurate manner. Portion arrange and garnish food using proper utensils. Support team production to meet service needs. Maintain professionalism at all times including busy periods and emergencies.

• Kitchen Safety: Monitor equipment for defects damage or misuse and report maintenance needs to supervisors. Maintain equipment for safe and proper use to prevent injuries.

• Food Safety: Monitor temperatures of hot and 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.

• Cleanliness: Maintain clean and sanitary work area by monitoring tables shelves drawers cooking equipment storage bins cutting boards refrigeration equipment floors walls ceilings trash bins cardboard side towels oven mitts station cleaning and sanitizing solutions.

• Quality: 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.

Education Credentials Licenses:

• High School Diploma or GED preferred

Specialized Knowledge:

• Ability to read with comprehension and follow written and verbal instructions

Kind and Length of Experience:

• 12 months in food service preparation

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Right Career. Right Here. If youre looking for the right careers in healthcare the right place to be is at St. Elizabeth. Join us and youll take pride in the level of care we offer our community.