Food Services - Cook
Full Time 1st Shift
Objectives are to skillfully perform multiple tasks necessary to operate the Food and Nutrition
Services/Dining Services Department to prepare and serve attractive, nutritious, satisfying meals
and to provide quality nutrition care in a safe, sanitary, and cost-effective manner to patients,
clients, and customers.
Produces and prepares food for cafeteria, catering, and hot/cold food production according to menus, recipes, and portions appropriately adhering to Baptist Health Brand Culinary Standards. Maintains proper food handling, safety and sanitation standards while preparing, serving, and cleaning up food. Ensures proper label and dating standards are followed along with understanding and following food rotation methods like (FIFO) first in – first out. Ensures quality and visual presentation of food. Must be knowledgeable and possess ability to operate applicable kitchen equipment with working knowledge of food items. Assists other employees to ensure all kitchen duties are completed within given time constraints. Assists in other areas of the operation, as needed. Basic knife skills required. Cook I is responsible for learning and developing skills for safe, efficient, and high-quality food production and service. Provides relief for all Cook I and Food Service Worker positions as needed.
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Essential Qualifications:
Benefits: Full-Time 32 weekly hours (0.8 FTE) - 40 weekly hours (1.0 FTE)
Retirement with Company Match
Work Experience
Education
Founded in 1924 in Louisville, Kentucky, Baptist Health is a full-spectrum health system dedicated to improving the health of the communities it serves. The Baptist Health family consists of nine hospitals, employed and independent physicians, and more than 400 points of care, including outpatient facilities, physician practices and services, urgent care clinics, outpatient diagnostic and surgery centers, home care, fitness centers, and occupational medicine and physical therapy clinics.
Baptist Health’s eight owned hospitals include more than 2,300 licensed beds in Corbin, Elizabethtown, La Grange, Lexington, Louisville, Paducah, Richmond and New Albany, Indiana. Baptist Health also operates the 410-bed Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville in Madisonville, Kentucky in a joint venture with Deaconess Health System based in Evansville, Indiana. Baptist Health employs more than 23,000 people in Kentucky and surrounding states.
Baptist Health is the first health system in the U.S. to have all of its hospitals recognized by the American Nursing Credentialing Center with either a Magnet® or Pathway to Excellence® designation for nursing excellence.
Baptist Health’s employed provider network, Baptist Health Medical Group, has nearly 1,500 providers, including more than 750 physicians and more than 740 advanced practice clinicians. Baptist Health’s physician network also includes more than 2,000 independent physicians.
Learn more at BaptistHealth.com.
