We’re glad you’re here! By choosing to apply at Dobie, you’re choosing to work at Mid Michigan’s premier provider of choice for memory care, long-term care, short-term rehabilitation, outpatient therapy, and wellness. At Dobie, we value our team members and work to attract and retain the best talent available. With us, you can build a career in a friendly environment that fully embraces its mission, vision and values. If you are someone who is dedicated to improving lives, we’re ready to welcome you aboard our team!
At Dobie, we make each meal the best meal of the day! Here, you can use your skills in our fast-paced environment in areas that range from hospitality service positions to cook to manager. No matter your role, you’ll help improve the lives of our residents and patients at every dining occasion. We have a friendly, fun staff that is open to change and flexible hours to compliment a variety of school schedules along with a competitive wage structure. Hours for the Dobie Dining team vary from 4:30am to 8pm and everything in between.
Come join us where the dining team works together to serve residents and patients, where you get discounts throughout the community just for being a team member, where you and your family can exercise in a state of the art fitness center for just $10/month and where we love to grow and promote our team from within.
Cook
GENERAL SUMMARY
Under general supervision of the Director of Dining Services and Dining Services Supervisor, prepares food with the assistance of Dining Services Aides.
PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Confers with Director of Dining Services and/or Dining Services Supervisors about the preparation of food for meals and assists in estimating quantities needed.
- Prepares foods listed on menus using safe food handling methods. Responsible for taste and quality of finished product.
- Assures that food is served at the proper time and correct temperature.
- Makes advance preparation for the next day as directed by Dining Services Supervisor and/or Director of Dining Services.
- Assists in the training of new employees.
- May supervise and be responsible for the general operation of the kitchen and work of Dining Services Aides in the absence of a Dining Services Supervisor or Director of Dining Services.
- Keeps records of daily food usage and notifies supervisor of supply needs when appropriate.
- Cleans own work area. Performs other cleaning duties as scheduled.
- Serves meals in dining room and kitchen as assigned. Will assist with meal service as needed.
- Records food temperatures prior to meal service. Takes corrective action for temperatures in the “Danger Zone” and notifies supervisor.
- Miscellaneous duties as assigned.
The primary purpose of the job description is to aid in establishing a pay grade for this job classification. Only those duties and responsibilities necessary for proper job evaluation and/or labor market analysis have been included. This list is not all inclusive of the total scope of the job duties to be performed.
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES
- Knowledge and skills typically acquired through a high school degree.
- Thorough knowledge of and skill in the application of quantity food preparation and techniques and practice. Experience in quantity cooking in a health care facility.
- Thorough knowledge of kitchen sanitation, personal hygiene, food handling and storage practices.
- Safe serve certification required, post hire.
- Knowledge of therapeutic diets.
Physical ability to:
- Operate large scale mechanical food preparation equipment
- Lift up to 75 lbs.
- Push/pull wheeled carts weighing up to 300 lbs.
The knowledge, skills and abilities listed above are intended to represent the minimum levels associated with performing the duties and responsibilities contained in the job description. It is assumed the incumbent must possess the knowledge, skills and abilities necessary to perform all the duties and responsibilities listed in the job description. The knowledge, skills and abilities should not be viewed as expressing absolute employment standards, but as general guidelines that should be considered along with other job related selection criteria.
GENERAL REQUIREMENTS
- Maintain a dependable attendance record.
- Adhere to Facility/Department Dress code.
- Interact in a positive, tactful, diplomatic, and humanistic manner with patients, families, visitors, and co-workers to provide a safe and efficient which ensures the self-respect, personal dignity, rights and physical safety of each patient and facility guest.
WORKING CONDITIONS
- Exposure to hot and cold temperature extremes. Works with a variety of appliances, kitchen utensils and cleaning products.
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