Cook

Responsibilities

North Star Behavioral Health Systems is seeking an experienced Cook to join our ourstanding team. The cook is responsible for participating in the provision of quality meals and nutritional services to patients, staff, and guests.

JOB RESPONSIBLITIES :

• Prepares meals for patients, employees, medical staff, and visitors.
• Takes and records meal temperatures at meal time.
• Serves meals to all cafeteria customers, ensuring food is placed on the serving line on time and condiments needed for that meal are set out.
• Accepts and reconciles deliveries and puts away stock; promptly receives deliveries when notified of their arrival, checking product sending back anything not acceptable.
• Cleans work area as necessary or assigned.
• Performs other duties as assigned

GENERAL WORKING ENVIRONMENT : Working conditions for all employees are as follows, but not limited to a psychiatric hospital setting; some risk involved in the event of aggressive patient(s); work load may include day, evening, night, weekend and / or holiday shifts. Employees occasionally exposed to blood borne pathogens, and loud noise levels.

Mental demands described herein are representative of those which must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of the job, but are not limited to the ability to remain calm in a stressful environment; and the emotional stability, physical stamina and agility to handle stress and respond quickly and effectively to emergency situations.

EQUIPMENT / MATERIALS USED : Stove, trash bins, oven, microwave oven, steamer, toaster, fryer, coffee maker, grill, slicer, food processor, electric mixer, other kitchen equipment.

Qualifications

EDUCATION / EXPERIENCE : High School Diploma. Previous cooking experience required.

KNOWLEDGE / SKILLS :

1) Ability to perform assignments with minimal supervision;

2) Ability to work successfully under highly stressful conditions;

3) Ability to make sound, independent judgments based on scientific and / or ethical principles;

4) Capability of adapting to varying workloads and work assignments on a constant basis;

5) Effective comprehensive reading skills, strong communication skills - both written and verbal.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS OF THE POSITON :

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS : Requirements include, but are not limited to the ability to communicate effectively with employees; the ability to effectively utilize communication equipment; the physical agility to manage patients (ambulatory, non-ambulatory and physically aggressive); the ability to read, write and spend a great deal of time of a computer.

EEO Statement

All UHS subsidiaries are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and teammates. UHS subsidiaries are equal opportunity employers and as such, openly support and fully commit to recruitment, selection, placement, promotion and compensation of individuals without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), genetic information, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

We believe that diversity and inclusion among our teammates is critical to our success.

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