Cook
Avera
**Location:**
Redfield, SD
**Worker Type:**
Regular
**Work Shift:**
Rotating days/evenings/nights/weekends/holidays (United States of America)
Redfield Community Memorial Hospital and Clinic is seeking a qualified individual to join our team!
**Position Highlights**
Job Summary: To prepare and/or to be responsible for preparation of foods for patients, guests, and employees. Will be responsible for the preparation of foods for employees in the cafeteria and will be responsible to coordinate with other departments in catering all hospital events and meetings as needed.
Essential Job Functions:
1. Ability to arrive at work promptly and complete the job as assigned.
2. Ability to complete tasks per the given job schedule.
3. Ability to work in an environment that may expose an individual to communicable disease.
4. Ability to communicate with staff, patients and visitors.
5. Ability to use cleaning chemicals per written guidelines.
6. Ability to plan own work schedule based on the menu of the day.
7. Ability to follow food production, sanitation and safety guidelines to meet the requirements of regulating agencies.
8. Ability to manage the production of the employee’s meals and catering of events and meetings of the hospital so that the meal is flavorful, attractive, and have good quality of food. Meals will be serviced in a timely manner.
Marginal Job Functions:
1. Ability to follow sanitation guidelines as specified in the Dietary Policy Manual.
2. Ability to work with fellow employees to meet the objectives of the department.
3. Ability to provide documentation as required-temperature records, meal records, filling out tray cards.
4. Ability to communicate with other departments in implementing the nutritional care of a patient.
Essential Physical Demands:
1. Ability to work in an environment that varies in temperature and humidity.
2. Ability to lift correctly.
3. Ability to stand on feet in one position for a limited period of time.
4. Ability to walk on hard and possibly damp surfaces.
5. Ability to use arms and hands repetitively.
6. Ability to bend, stoop or squat to reach items located below waist level.
7. Ability to lift 10-20 pounds as in carrying dished trays or filled trash cans.
8. Ability to pull 10 pounds as in pulling open a freezer or walk in refrigerator door.
9. Ability to exert 60 pounds of pushing force as in pushing food cart.
10. Ability to lift 35 pounds as in lifting cases of food, dish tubs or food items.
Work Environment: Kitchen, employee dining room, manager’s office, nurses station, and patient room.
Equipment Used to Perform Job: Steamer, slicer, processor, convection oven, conventional oven, gas stove, vacuum cleaner, buffer and shampooer.
Mental Requirements:
☒ Reading, simple ☐ spatial ☒ tending
☐ Reading, complex ☐ form ☐ precision working
☒ Writing, simple ☐ clerical ☒ follow instructions
☐ Writing, complex ☐ compiling ☒ influence others
☒ Math skills, simple ☒ coordinating ☒ time requirement
☐ Math skills, complex ☐ analyzing ☒ memorization
☒ Tasks, simple ☐ synthesizing ☒ problem solving
☐ Tasks, complex ☐ supervising ☒ independent judgment
☐ Driving ☐ instructing ☐ decision making
Potential Job Stressors: Time limits.
Education: Must be 16 years of age or older. Must be able to read and write English.
Licenses/Certificates: None
Experience: Some food service knowledge helpful but not mandatory. ServSafe certificate preferred but not necessary.
Minimum pay of $17/hour; 6:30a-5:45p; Weekend/Holiday Rotation; 60 hours every 2 weeks
Community Memorial Hospital and Redfield Clinic offers FREE single Health, Dental, Vision, and Life Insurance. We also have the South Dakota Retirement Plan.
At Avera, the way you are treated as an employee translates into the compassionate care you deliver to patients and team members. Because we consider health care a ministry, you can live out your faith, uphold the dignity and respect of all persons while not compromising high-quality services. Join us in making a positive impact on moving health forward.
The policy of Avera to provide opportunities for all qualified employees or applicants without regard to disability and to provide reasonable accommodations for all employees or applicants who may be disabled. Avera is committed to ensuring compliance in accordance with the Americans with Disability Act. For assistance, please contact HR Now at 605-504-4444.
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