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Cook - Care Center - Part Time

Employer
Knute Nelson
Location
Alexandria, MN
Salary
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The mission of Knute Nelson is to enrich the lives of everyone we serve.

This is an every other weekend and holiday position. Shifts are 11:00am - 7:00pm, with flexibility!

Sign on Bonus $300!

Scope:

• Work primarily in the dining room/kitchen area, and has frequent contact with staff and residents.
• Has occasional contact with the resident family members and guests.

Key Responsibilities:

• Food Production - Cooperatively prepare meals for the current day and complete preparation for upcoming day. Monitor overall daily work flow and assign appropriate preparation to balance daily food production among team members. Follow recipes and assist with recipe modification and development. Follow production schedules based on resident census. Record and report over-production, underproduction, and waste. Prepare foods using methods that maintain nutrition, flavor, appearance, tenderness, and quality. Prepare foods to meet the special needs of individual residents—such as special requests, and alternates in the event of an allergy. Offer, and prepare appropriate substitute food items when a resident dislike occurs. Advise the CDM of inventory needs, usage and shortages.
• Food Safety - Utilize safe food preparation methods when receiving, preparing, storing, cooling, freezing, holding, transporting, serving, and reheating foods. Sanitize food contact surfaces before, during, and after food preparation. Prepare and check concentration of sanitizers to ensure effectiveness. Monitor temperature records and checklists for holding and storing equipment to maintain safe food at all stages in the flow of food including sanitizing of equipment, dishes and utensils. Report and take immediate and appropriate corrective action if standards are not met. Demonstrate proper glove use, avoids direct hand contact with foods. Wear proper hair restraint when preparing or serving food. Maintain clean and sanitary kitchen at all times. Spill, splatter, and boil-over incident, are cleaned up immediately.
• Purchasing /Receiving - Assist CDM with the online ordering systems to source, verify, and purchase food and supplies. Assist with receiving food and dining services supplies, verify invoice accuracy, check product quantity, quality, and sign receiving documents. May make local food related purchases at approved local supply source for special events or situations.
• Supervise Personnel - Assist the CDM with the following supervisory job functions: interviewing, hiring, training, orientation, evaluation, recognition, and discipline of staff. Provide day-to-day work direction and problem solving as issues or conflicts arise. Create and maintain a work environment for employees that are conducive to high productivity and morale. Establish and maintain effective communication systems with employees.
• Scheduling - When necessary request dining services team members to work for absent employees. Record absence and tardy reports and communicate with the CDM.
• Other Duties as Assigned - Perform all daily tasks in accordance with established facility and departmental policies and procedures. In the event of a fire or other emergency, assist with resident evacuations and secures food service area. Assist with special event preparation and cleans up. Work closely with the CDM to plan resident events. Attend in-service training and other work related meetings as required or approved. Help with any other areas of the building as needed. The duties and responsibilities listed above are representative of the nature and level of work assigned and are not necessarily all inclusive.

Education and Experience Required:

• Work experience as a cook within an institutional setting or other similar food service position, is preferred but not necessary.
• Completion of a state approved food safety course strongly recommended and preferred but not required.
• The ability to follow oral and written instructions accurately is essential.
• Patience, tact, enthusiasm and a positive attitude towards the elderly is essential.
• The ability to work with a variety of staff and residents with differing values, attitudes, capabilities, and dispositions is essential. This position requires an ability to work effectively as an individual player of the dietary team as well as part of the facility wide team.
• Able to physically perform the duties required by the position.
• Required to have the ability to read, write and speak English well enough to communicate with staff, residents and visitors.

Reports To:

Culinary Supervisor

In keeping with federal, state and local laws, Knute Nelson's policy forbids employees and associates from discriminating against anyone based on race, religion, color, creed, gender, age, marital status, national origin, sexual orientation, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, familial status, disability or any other characteristic protected by law. Knute Nelson is committed to establishing and maintaining a workplace free of discrimination. We are fully committed to equal employment opportunity. We will not tolerate unlawful discrimination in the recruitment, hiring, termination, promotion, salary treatment or any other condition of employment or career advancement.Knute Nelsonalso provides reasonable accommodations to disabled employees and applicants as required by law.

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Why work at Knute Nelson?

  • Positive, respectful culture. At Knute Nelson,
    a positive, respectful culture is the norm. It shows
    in the high-quality care we give our patients and
    residents. And how we treat each other.
  • Generous benefits. In addition to competitive
    compensation, we offer a cost-effective benefits
    package, flexible schedules, memberships to
    the Alexandria YMCA and the Nelson Wellness
    Centers at Grand Arbor and Nelson Gables, and
    more.
  • Your professional growth. It’s as important
    to us as it is to you. That’s why we provided
    $145,000 in scholarships to employees in 2018.
  • Make a difference every day.

Our mission is to enrich the lives of everyone we serve.

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Alexandria
Minnesota
56308
United States

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