Dietary Cook

About This Role

Provide dietary assistance at a nursing and rehabilitation facility, ensuring proper food handling, meal service, and kitchen sanitation while adhering to established policies and procedures.

Responsibilities

• Ensure safety precautions, life safety, and infection control policies and procedures are followed during daily work assignments.
• Prepare food as assigned and assist cook as needed, ensuring food is handled and stored using proper procedures.
• Gain knowledge of diets and menus.
• Serve meals, clear the main dining room, and wipe tables.
• Wash dishes and equipment and thoroughly clean work area.
• Ensure tray preparation follows prescribed menus and resident likes and dislikes are honored when possible.
• Prepare and distribute snacks to the nursing department as needed.
• Stock store room and bring stock out, as needed.
• Take out trash, sweep and mop floors in main dining room, kitchen, and pantry.
• Wipe pantry shelves, scrub baseboards and walls as needed, clean appliances, equipment, and freezers; always leave kitchen clean and orderly.

Requirements

• Experience in dietary functions or cooking

Benefits