The Opportunity:
Saint Luke’s Bishop Spencer Place is seeking na Executive Chef to quickly and efficiently provide excellent customer service to our patients and their families. As a member of our nutrition team, you will play a critical role in ensuring that our patients receive the nutrition they need for their healing. Our priority is patient care in that we interact with patients daily and have the opportunity to bring something positive to their day to ensure Saint Luke’s is “The Best Place To Get Care, The Best Place To Give Care.”
This position is responsible for all food production culinary and kitchen operations that provide products and services to patients cafeteria retail outlets and catering. Provides leadership training and direction to culinary leadership team and production staff. Full responsibility for budgeted food and labor costs product quality employee satisfaction customer satisfaction and safety standards associated with NS production operations. Ensures all safety and sanitation requirements are met. Delegates and directs duties to culinary and supporting staff. Ensures menus and food products comply with federal state local regulations as well as doctors diet restrictions. Develops standardized menus hires staff performance manages employees to set standards trains and coaches for improvement. Responsible for staff schedules and ensures labor hours and assignments are appropriate for volume needs. Ability to interact positively and professionally with customers and staff. System influence with oversight of childcare and hospice house nutrition staff as well as working with other system leaders on menu development. The Chef will work all shifts and be scheduled weekends and holidays as needed.
Why Saint Luke’s?
Saint Luke’s offers competitive salaries and benefits packages to all eligible employees, click here to find out more.
We believe in creating a collaborative environment where all voices are heard.
We are here for you and will support you in achieving your goals.
We are dedicated to innovation and always looking for ways to improve.
Benefits:
Health, Vision and Dental
Leave of Absence, PTO, and various Welfare plans
Flex and Health Savings Accounts
Tuition and Education Reimbursement
Various other voluntary benefits available
Applicable Experience:
2 yearsServSafe Manager Certification - National Restaurant AssociationAssociate DegreeFull TimeDay (United States of America)
The best place to get care. The best place to give care Saint Luke’s 12,000 employees strive toward that vision every day. Our employees are proud to work for the only faith-based, nonprofit, locally owned health system in Kansas City. Joining Saint Luke’s means joining a team of exceptional professionals who strive for excellence in patient care. Do the best work of your career within a highly diverse and inclusive workspace where all voices matter.
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About Saint Luke’s
Saint Luke’s serves the West Region of BJC Health System as a faith-based, nonprofit, aligned health system committed to providing the highest levels of excellence in compassionate health care and health-related services. Saint Luke’s cares for patients in 65 specialty services across 67 counties in Missouri and Kansas. Saint Luke’s Hospital has been recognized by U.S. News & World Report as one of the elite hospitals in the nation. For more than 140 years, Saint Luke’s has been dedicated to enhancing the physical, mental, and spiritual health of the diverse communities we serve.
Saint Luke’s offers:
- The region’s longest continuously operating adult heart transplant program and one of the nation’s leading cardiovascular programs at Saint Luke's Mid America Heart Institute
- Treatment for complex brain and spinal cord diseases and one of the nation’s leading stroke reversal programs at the nationally ranked Saint Luke’s Marion Bloch Neuroscience Institute
- The region’s only treatment center dedicated exclusively to treating metastatic breast cancer—the Koontz Center for Advanced Breast Cancer at Saint Luke’s Cancer Institute
- Saint Luke’s Convenient and Urgent Care clinics for treatment of minor illnesses and injuries
- Liver and kidney transplantation programs
- A comprehensive maternal-fetal diagnostic and treatment center
- Three Neonatal Intensive Care Units, including a Level IIIb NICU at Saint Luke’s Hospital of Kansas City
- Saint Luke’s Rehabilitation Institute, the only comprehensive inpatient rehabilitation hospital of its kind in the region
- A nationally recognized children's behavioral health center, Saint Luke’s Hospital Crittenton Children’s Center