Dining Services IV - Baker/cook

Dining Services IV - Baker/Cook

Salary: $3,844.00 Monthly

Location: Denver, Colorado

Job Type: Full Time

Job Number: IIC 00649

Opening Date: 08/29/2025

Closing Date: 9/7/2025 11:59 PM Mountain

FLSA Status: Non-Exempt; position is eligible for overtime compensation

Primary Physical Work Address: 3520 W Oxford Avenue, Denver, CO 80236

Department Contact Information: melissa.baca@state.co.us

How To Apply: Please submit an online application for this position at https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/colorado

About This Work Unit

The Nutrition Services Department provides quality meals and medical nutrition therapy to patients in a mental health facility. Meals meet the nutritional, medical, spiritual, cultural, and mental health needs of the patient population and are prepared in a manner that meets established standards.

Purpose Of This Position

This position performs work in food handling, serving, production, cleaning, safety, and sanitation. This includes preparing, seasoning, and cooking regular and modified meals using standardized recipes and a variety of commercial food service equipment. This position also cleans and sanitizes dishes, pots/pans, equipment, production areas, dining room, and other department areas. All work performed by this position adheres to federal, state, and local regulations, Colorado Mental Health Hospital in Fort Logan (CMHHIFL) policies and procedures, and proper safety and sanitation guidelines.

Primary Job Duties

• Production Cooking: Prepares meals following standardized recipes, written instructions, portion sizes, production sheets, food safety guidelines, etc. Assures food is attractive, appetizing and at proper temperature. Complies with applicable laws, regulations, policies and standards including Joint Commission, Colorado Dept. of Health, Colorado Dept. of Education, and the standards and regulations set by the hospital and nutrition services.
• Baking: Prepares baked goods using standardized recipes. Items include breads, cakes, cookies, pies, puddings, cobblers and similar items.
• Work Leader: As a work leader, this position is responsible for daily shift supervision including assigning tasks, monitoring progress and workflow, checking the product, scheduling work, and establishing work standards.
• Sanitation and Document Compliance: Responsible for proper documentation of temperatures (food items, refrigerators, and freezers), production records, cleaning schedule, food safety and sanitation and any other necessary documentation. Assures that all written documentation and reports from each shift are completed on a daily basis. Follows CMHIFL policies regarding utensils/plate/bowl counts, key monitoring, knife inventory, food auditing, operation and minor servicing of equipment.
• Training: Attends and actively participates in all mandatory/assigned training and successfully completes any/all testing or other requirements for such trainings. Maintains required certifications as appropriate.

Minimum Qualifications, Substitutions, Conditions Of Employment & Appeal Rights

Experience Only:

• Three (3) years of food service experience including baking, cooking and preparation of food and/or working in an occupationally related field. Acceptable forms of experience include: work in banquet setting, catering, or production kitchen.

Conditions Of Employment:

• Full background check and reference check required
• Essential Services Designation - Must be available for call back to perform essential and/or emergency services of the agency without delay or interruption
• Annual influenza and other vaccinations as required by the state of Colorado
• Must pass a pre-placement physical/medical screening: TB Test
• Must be available for shift work
• Use, Handling, or Exposure to hazardous materials
• Former State employees who were disciplinarily terminated or resigned in lieu of termination must (1) disclose that information on the application (2) provide an explanation why the prior termination or resignation should not disqualify the applicant from the current position, (3) provide the employee number from the applicant's prior State employment. Absent extraordinary circumstances, prior disciplinary termination or resignation in lieu of termination and failure to provide this information will disqualify the applicant from future State employment with CDHS.

Appeal Rights: If you receive notice that you have been eliminated from consideration for this position, you may file an appeal with the State Personnel Board or request a review by the State Personnel Director. An appeal or review must be submitted on the official appeal form, signed by you or your representative. This form must be delivered to the State Personnel Board by email (dpa_state.personnelboard@state.co.us), postmarked in US Mail or hand delivered (1525 Sherman Street, 4th Floor, Denver CO 80203), or faxed (303.866.5038) within ten (10) calendar days from your receipt of notice or acknowledgement of the department's action. For more information about the appeals process, the official appeal form, and how to deliver it to the State Personnel Board; go to spb.colorado.gov under Rules.

Supplemental Information

How To Apply: https://cdhs.colorado.gov/information-for-job-applicants#how-to-apply

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The Assessment Process: https://cdhs.colorado.gov/information-for-job-applicants#assessment-process

For additional recruiting questions, please contact melissa.baca@state.co.us

About Us

If your goal is to build a career that makes a difference, consider joining the dedicated people of the Colorado Department of Human Services (CDHS). Our professionals strive to design and deliver high quality human and health services that improve the safety, independence, and well-being of the people of Colorado. In addition to a great location and rewarding and meaningful work, we offer:

• Strong, secure, yet flexible retirement benefits including a PERA Defined Benefit Plan or PERA Defined Contribution Plan plus 401(k) and 457 plans
• Medical and dental health plans
• Employer supplemented Health Savings Account
• Paid life insurance
• Short- and long-term disability coverage
• 11 paid holidays per year plus vacation and sick leave
• BenefitHub state employee discount program
• Employee Wellness program
• Excellent work-life programs, such as flexible schedules, training and more
• Remote work arrangements for eligible positions
• *Some positions may qualify for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program. For more information, go to https://www.colorado.gov/pacific/dhr/student-loan-forgiveness-programs

Our Values:

• We believe in a people-first approach: To serve the people of Colorado, we develop a culture and work environment that creates an energized, inspired, and healthy team capable of giving their best to Coloradans.
• Balance creates quality of life: We want our team to be resilient through a supportive workplace that values flexibility, health and wellness, and employee engagement.
• We hold ourselves accountable: We take responsibility through our actions, programs, and results for the state of health and human services in Colorado.
• Transparency matters: We are open and honest with employees, our partners, the Coloradans we serve, and the public.
• We are ethical: We abide by what is best for those we serve by doing what is right, not what is easy.
• Collaboration helps us rise together: We work together with all partners, employees, and clients to achieve the best outcomes for Coloradans.

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