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Dietary CookOptalis Healthcare • Sterling Heights, MI
Dietary Cook

Dietary Cook

Optalis Healthcare • Sterling Heights, MI
30+ days ago
Job type
  • Full-time
Job description

Our Dietary Cook prepares nourishing meals for our residents and ensures the highest quality of standards of food service is being performed. This position focuses on the needs of each resident during mealtimes. The Cook works closely with the Dietary Manager to create and review menu items that meet the nutrition needs of each individual resident.

Job Tasks:

  • Communicates with Dietary Manager to best meet needs of residents.
  • Assist in daily preparation and services of our resident meals, including therapeutic and modified consistency diets.
  • Preparation of foods for the following day’s menu.
  • Ensure meals are appealing, appetizing and nutritionally sound.
  • Follows recipes and prepares foods that correspond to menu cycles prepared by the Dietary Manager, including therapeutic and modified consistency diets.
  • Cook and prepare delicious, attractive, nutritionally adequate meals in institutional quantities of supplies & equipment.
  • Assists with food storage according to facility procedures and safe food handling guidelines.
  • Maintains sanitation standards as defined by the facility’s policies and procedures while in the prep areas of the kitchen as well as the dish room.
  • Attend required staff in-services.
  • Cleans dishes, utensils, and equipment according to sanitation standards.
  • Other duties as assigned.

Job Requirements:

  • Maintains excellent personal hygiene.
  • Must be able to read, write, and communicate in the English language.
  • Must be able to follow written and verbal instructions.
  • The ability to think and work independently.
  • Communicates with staff members in a fast-paced and sometimes stressful environment.

Experience:

  • High School diploma or equivalent.
  • Prior experience in a long-term care facility or equivalent is preferred.
  • Prior experience in commercial restaurant or equivalent is preferred.
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