Food Services - Cook

Facility 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.

Health RIGHT 360 offers residential treatment services designed to serve individuals and families with substance use disorders and co-occurring mental health disorders. Our program helps clients address addiction and related issues, increase skills, manage stressors, connect to supportive service, and build a foundation for lasting recovery. Residential programs run 24/7 and include individual and group therapy, family therapy, individualized case management, treatment planning, drug and alcohol counseling, medication support services, and crisis intervention.

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 Summary

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, Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Qualifications:

Education and Experience

• High School Diploma/GED
• 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

Must complete background check and livescan clearance. We will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.