Cook

HealthRIGHT 360 gives hope, builds health, and changes lives for people in need by providing comprehensive, integrated, compassionate care that includes primary medical care, mental health services, and substance use disorder treatment.

Benefits and perks:

• HR360 offers a robust benefits package, including PTO, 15 paid holidays, commuter benefits, retirement plans, and more!
• Employees qualify for public loan forgiveness programs
• Training and professional development opportunities
• Work with mission driven, compassionate colleagues and make a difference every day in the work that you do.

Job Overview
 

This is a union position.

The Facility Cook executes food preparation and meal service, maintaining consistency in quality, utilizing strong time management skills with solid cooking methods, and working with a tight design kitchen.  Organization and preparation skills are critical.  Responsible for oversight, planning and organizing of the facility.  The Cook is responsible for ensuring all food services functions at the facility are executed. Additionally, the Cook ensures safety of food handling practices, proper sanitation, utilization of the FIFO method and more. Team member will operate with a focus on service and support, takes pride in the quality of their work, holds themselves and others accountable, follows through on obligations, effectively communicates and responds to inquiries, and engages their role with a sense of compassion and partnership to help further the agency’s mission and goals.

Key Responsibilities

Food Service Responsibilities: Ensure meals are well balanced, nutritious, and appealing. Reduce unnecessary costs whenever possible. Follows production menu with creative vision in quality and presentation.  Ensures all residents’ meals are on-time and meet quality standards. Ensures special requests are captured at all meal services including as-needed, special save plates, special dietary needs, and service requirements for food being catered to detox clients.  Cooks will be required to capture snack programs 3 times daily and general meal services.

Food Storage and Safety Responsibilities: Manage food storage, proper refrigeration, and inventory control. Maintain professional safety standards, cleanliness, and sanitation in accordance with health and safety codes. Ensure servicing and repair of equipment. Notify supervisor of equipment needs.

Treatment Setting Responsibilities: Ensure that all kitchen volunteer workers are familiar with agency and departmental policies, procedures, practices of safe food handling and holds clients accountable. Teaches life skills cooking methods to clients in the kitchen. Maintain team spirit and morale within kitchen. Works as a team with Food Services and performs functions that further Department and Agency needs.

And other duties as assigned.

Education and Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
 

Education and Experience:

• Food handling and preparation certification or experience as cook.
• Industrial kitchen tools and equipment &cooking methods techniques

Knowledge:

• Safety and hygiene standards and regulations.
• Nutrition and special dietary requirements.
• Volume preparation, portion control and food preservation.
• Inventory Control System.

Skills and abilities:

• Temperament to work with and train emotionally disturbed clients.
• Knowledge of approaches to recovery such as 12 step, social, or medical models.
• Professionalism, punctuality, flexibility, and reliability are imperative.
• Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal skills.
• Culturally competent and able to work with a diverse population.
• Experience with Microsoft Office applications, specifically Word Outlook and internet applications.
• Integrity to handle sensitive information in a confidential manner.
• Action oriented.
• Strong problem-solving skills.
• Excellent organization skills and ability to multitask and juggle multiple priorities. Outstanding ability to follow-through with tasks.
• Strong initiative and enthusiasm and willingness to pitch in whenever needed.
• Understanding of and ability to demonstrate professional boundaries with clients.

Certifications and licenses:

• High school diploma or GED or Culinary certificate or degree.
• Valid California driver’s license insurable by HealthRIGHT 360 (formerly HAFC-Walden House).
• First Aid Certified within 30 days of employment.
• CPR Certified within 30 days of employment.