Dietary Cook

JOB REQUIREMENTS: Look through each patients diet plan and determine
the required ingredients. Prepare food items by cutting, chopping,
marinating, and cubing meats, vegetables, and fruits. Make soups and
stocks according to specified recipes, ensuring the right amount of
seasoning is used. Assist the hospital nutritionist in creating recipes.
Cook nutritious meals according to standardized protocols, ensuring that
cleanliness is given the highest priority. Perform portioning activities
on trays or platters by following set instructions per patient. Ensure
that patients meals are delivered promptly to the nursing staff.
Oversee the cleanliness and sanitization of kitchen areas, such as
counters, floors, and walls. Perform predictive, preventative, and
regular maintenance on kitchen appliances such as stoves, ovens, grills,
fridges, and freezers. Timely perform food rotation activities to keep
food spoilage in check. Ability to store, prepare, distribute, and serve
food under sanitary conditions to properly prevent food borne illnesses.
Ability to know and follow dietary cleaning schedule. Ability to perform
all duties according to federal and state regulations, as well as the
County Personnel Handbook, facility policies and procedures, and
directives of the Dietary Manager. Ability to work cooperatively with
food service staff, other departments, patients and visitors. Ability to
attend mandatory meetings and training opportunities as requested.
Knowledge of where hazardous Material Safety Data Sheets are kept, and
know how to use them in case of emergency. Ability to follow established
safety precaution in the performance of all duties. Ability to store
chemicals and supplies in designated areas, according to federal, state,
county, and facility policies. Ability to withstand heat while working
around stoves and ovens, as well as changes in temperatures while going
in and out of refrigeration and freezers. Ability to manage possible
hazards associated with your duties such as cuts, burns, falls, loud
noise levels, and potentially hazardous chemicals appropriately
according to federal, state, county and facility regulations and
policies. Ability to stand the entire shift. Ability to coordinate
hand/eye tasks, such as in operation of all commercial kitchen
equipment, and to manipulate carts though doorways and tightly spaced
areas. Ability to read, understand, and correctly implement menus,
recipes, and directives. Ability to hear normal sounds with some
background noise, in order to receive verbal instruction, hear alarms
and buzzers, and discriminate normal sounds of machinery/equipment when
in operation. OTHER EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS: Minimum of
1 year of experience in food preparation. Fluently read, write and speak
English and follow verbal and written job duties and schedules.
Understand units of measurement conversions used in food preparation and
perform basic math equations. Competently follow orders as well as
proceed with routine work without direct supervision. Ability to be
flexible in shifts worked or assigned including weekends and holidays.
Ability to follow and knowledge of Safety Sanitation practices. Ability
to follow and knowledge of Infection Control Practices. Full range of
body motion and dexterity to allow for the significant handling,
transferring, pushing/ Pulling, and lifting of materials and equipment.
Ability to lift, carry, push or pull up to 50 pounds and occasionally
lift, carry, push or pull over 50 pounds. Independent mobility. Ability
to sit or stand for extended periods of time. Hand-Eye Coordination,
finger dexterity, odor, color, and texture perception and
discrimination, functional visual ability and depth perception,
functional sound perception and discrimination, and functional verbal
speech ability. Frequent bending, twisting, balancing, and reaching at
or above and below shoulder level, as well as occasional neeling and
climbing. Ability to wear gloves and other protective equipment and know
the appropriate time they should be worn. Ability to flex schedule to
work irregular hours as assigned. APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS:
Apply Online:
https://www.lafayettecountywi.org/hr/job-opening/mhlc-full-time-dietary-cook