Cook - Part Time Days 9Am-5Pm; Rotating Weekends - Patient Food Services

Long Island Community Hospital has served this richly diverse region as a patient-first community hospital for more than 60 years. As Long Island's only independent community hospital, we are 100% committed to becoming the community's healthcare provider of choice with our greatly enhanced services including the Knapp Cardiac Care Center, our highly-advanced heart disease diagnosis and treatment facility, our new modern surgical pavilion, our unique ER approach, and our high-touch services including women's imaging, sleep laboratory and orthopedics and more. These services are delivered with the highest level of compassion by our LI Community Hospital staff - Long Islanders with an unmistakable mix of courage and heart who care about the people right here in our community and whose sole purpose is to provide personalized comfort. For more information, go to licommunityhospital.org, and interact with us on LinkedIn, Glassdoor, Indeed, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Instagram.

Position Summary:
We have an exciting opportunity to join our team as a Cook - Part Time Days 9am-5pm; Rotating weekends - Patient Food Services.

The major responsibility of the Cook is the preparation of all foods for patient service, Employee Dining Room, Bistro and catering functions. In so doing, he / she follows established recipes and menus using professional food production methods of measuring, preparing and cooking food. All food is prepared under HACCP guidelines and meets quality parameters of taste, texture, temperature and appearance. He / She is also responsible to maintaining a clean and safe work environment.

Job Responsibilities:

• No food or ingredients are left out for extended periods of time..
• Production area is “clean as you go,” spills are wiped up immediately to prevent serious injury
• Instructs the servers as needed- discusses ingredients and portioning.
• Insures that food meet quality standards; corrects food items that are not in compliance. .
• Ensures that the items are prepared on time and according to Nutritional Diet order request.
• Food meets standards of the department- portion, garnish, taste, and texture.
• Appropriate actions are carried out if DOH guidelines are not met.
• Runs the Employee Dining Room and Patient line as needed.
• Communicates with other cooks and supervisors for ensuring that all meal will be produced in a timely manner.
• Follows daily cleaning schedule and special assignments.
• Cleans/monitors that equipment (slicer, chopper, can opener, steamer, grill, etc.) is clean at the end of the shift.
• Collects ingredients, weighs, measures and prepares food according to standardized recipes. Follows recipes as written.
• Ingredients are obtained in an orderly and efficient manner, used and stored immediately, so that area is free of extraneous items.
• Prepares amount and variety of food as needed for patient service.
• Food temperature continuously monitored to insure DOH guidelines.
• Food is ready as needed, batch cooking methods followed when appropriate.
• Takes temperatures of foods as each tray is brought out to the line or Employee Dining Room to ensure proper temperatures are met,
• Food is ready on time and follows the menu.

Minimum Qualifications:
To qualify you must have a High school diploma or equivalency.
Able to stand for 80-90% of workday
DOH Food Handlers Certificate (preferred)
Prefer five years experience in quantity food production
Must be able to follow standardized recipes

Qualified candidates must be able to effectively communicate with all levels of the organization.

Long Island Community Hospital provides its staff with far more than just a place to work. Rather, we are an institution you can be proud of, an institution where you'll feel good about devoting your time and your talents.

Long Island Community Hospital is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer committed to diversity and inclusion in all aspects of recruiting and employment. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply and will receive consideration without regard to race, color, gender, gender identity or expression, sex, sexual orientation, transgender status, gender dysphoria, national origin, age, religion, disability, military and veteran status, marital or parental status, citizenship status, genetic information or any other factor which cannot lawfully be used as a basis for an employment decision. We require applications to be completed online.
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