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COOK FULL TIME MONDAY TO FRIDAY & EVERY OTHER WEEKEND 8:00 AM TO 4:30P
Bergen New Bridge Medical Center • Paramus, NJ • Posted 30+ days ago via ZipRecruiter
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In-person • Full-time • $17.96-$18.50/hr • Entry Level
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The Cook at Bergen New Bridge Medical Center is responsible for preparing food for patients, residents, employees, and other customers using a variety of production tools, techniques, and equipment. This role ensures that meal service demands are met and maintains a sanitary work environment. The cook follows HACCP and infection control guidelines to ensure food safety, participates in department meetings and quality process, and assists in cleaning and stock inventory management.
Responsibilities
- Prepares food for patients/residents, employees, and other customers using a variety of production tools, techniques, and equipment.
- Ensures that meal service demands are met.
- Maintains a sanitary work environment.
- Prepares meals for service at specific time deadlines.
- Ensures that portion sizes are according to food service production guidelines.
- Uses steamers, ovens, grills, broilers, and other equipment in a safe and appropriate manner.
- Tests food using thermometers and tasting. Adjusts cooking process as necessary.
- Follows HACCP and infection control guidelines to ensure food is produced in a safe, sanitary manner.
- Participates as a team member in department meetings and the quality process.
- Attends in-service training with 100% attendance, as required.
- Maintains established departmental policies and procedures, objectives, quality assurance program, safety, environmental, and infection control standards
- Assists in cleaning food production storage area.
- Properly stores items in storeroom and rotates stock as necessary.
- Ensures that stock inventory is accurate and according to vendor specifications.
- Monitors temperatures of food in freezers and refrigerators. Reports malfunctions to the Food Production Manager.
- Performs other related functions as assigned by supervisor or as required to meet departmental needs.
Qualifications
Required
- High School graduation or GED equivalent required.
- Quantity cooking experience required.
Full Job Description
Job Description
Prepares food for patients/residents, employees and other customers using a variety of production tools, techniques, and equipment. Ensures that meal service demands are met. Maintains a sanitary work environment.
Prepares all food required by the menu using recipes and other production documents.
Prepares meals for service at specific time deadlines.
Ensures that portion sizes are according to food service production guidelines.
Uses steamers, ovens, grills, broilers and other equipment in a safe and appropriate manner.
Tests food using thermometers and tasting. Adjusts cooking process as necessary.
Follows HACCP and infection control guidelines to ensure food is produced in a safe, sanitary manner.
Participates as a team member in department meetings and the quality process.
Attends in-service training with 100% attendance, as required.
Maintains established departmental policies and procedures, objectives, quality assurance program, safety, environmental, and infection control standards
Assists in cleaning food production storage area.
Properly stores items in storeroom and rotates stock as necessary.
Ensures that stock inventory is accurate and according to vendor specifications.
Monitors temperatures of food in freezers and refrigerators. Reports malfunctions to the Food Production Manager.
Performs other related functions as assigned by supervisor or as required to meet departmental needs.
Education:
High School graduation or GED equivalent required.
Experience:
Quantity cooking experience required.
A safety net facility, Bergen New Bridge Medical Center, renamed in October 2017, provides high-quality comprehensive services including long term care, behavioral health care, substance abuse treatment, and acute care to the greater Bergen County community. The medical center, including its Long Term Care Division, is fully accredited by The Joint Commission. With 323 behavioral health beds and 84 medical detox beds, Bergen New Bridge Medical Center is one of the largest medical facilities providing a continuum of care for those in need of behavioral health and/or substance abuse treatment.
Please apply on our website: https://www.newbridgehealth.org/careers/
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