Cook/Dietary Assistant - On-Call Role!
Volunteers of America - National Services

Job Info

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Come join our awesome team as a Cook/Dietary Assistant at Bethesda Care Center! This is an on-call position!

In this duel role, the Cook provides quality food service for our residents and the Dietary Assistant is responsible for assisting with meal preparation, interacting with residents, serving meals, and keeping the dietary area sanitary.

Bethesda Care Center is part of Volunteers of America National Services which serves as the Housing and Healthcare affiliate of the Volunteers of America parent organization.

Dietary Job Highlights:

• Quality training, continuing career education and leadership programs;

Pay: Based on previous years of experience!

• Cook $14-$15 per hour
• Dietary Assistant $12.50-$13.50 per hour

Required Qualifications:

Cook -

• Must be eighteen (18) years of age.
• General knowledge of quantity food preparation and portioned serving required.
• Ability to communicate and work effectively with various levels of staff, residents, family members and the public.
• Ability to make various computations in monitoring inventory, recipe preparation, and keeping work records.
• Possesses adequate strength and endurance to meet the strenuous physical demands of preparing and carrying quantity foods.
• Possesses coordination and dexterity required to prepare food and operate dietary equipment.
• Visual acuity and color discrimination for examining cooked and stored foods; taste and smell discrimination in determining nutritional quality and palatability of foods.
• Work in an area that is often very hot/cold.
• Ability to utilize computers and other electronic devices for tasks such as timekeeping, in-servicing and documentation.

Dietary Assistant -

• No experience is required, training will be provided.
• Ability to read and understand procedures used for work assignments, instructions, recipe directions and diet order cards.

Essentials:

Cook -

• Completes defined food preparation, serving of meals and cleaning duties according to proper procedures, using various dietary equipment and supplies, as assigned by the Director of Food and Nutrition Services and Management Team.
• Plans and initiates cooking schedule for food preparation to meet meal schedule.
• Prepares, seasons, cooks and serves meat, main dish, soup and vegetable for assigned meal; ensures appropriate portioned servings according to portion control standards.
• Prepares nutritional snacks for residents as assigned.
• Tastes and smells prepared food to determine quality and palatability.
• Monitors temperature of hot and cold foods through food preparation and service to ensure that established temperature goals are met prior to steam table transfer and maintained throughout meal service.
• Stores leftovers properly, plans for use of leftover foods in accordance with State and Federal sanitation regulations.
• Supervises dietary staff in the absence of the Dietary Director; initiate replacement calls for absentees and re-organizes work assignments as directed.

Dietary Assistant -

• Assists in food preparation and ensures dining room is ready for service
• Daily interaction and conversation with residents while serving them meals
• Cleaning duties
• Be a friendly face, in this time of need, for our residents.

Bethesda Care Center is a skilled nursing community located in Fremont, Ohio, a great city with a variety of entertaining things to do, and a prosperous center of business for several different goods and services. At our senior care center, we offer compassionate, personalized long-term care, memory support, short-term rehabilitation, and end-of-life care to our senior community, and work to create an environment that makes everyone feel at home. We support our employees in bringing their determination and positive energy to the workplace, constantly inspiring our community and providing joy to those who may need it the most.

Certified as a Great Place to Work 5 years in a row! Employees say their work has a special meaning: this is not "just a job".

Create happiness and apply today!

At VOANS, we celebrate sharing, encouraging and embracing diversity. Equal employment opportunities are available to all without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, national origin, age, physical and mental disability, marital status, parental status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, military and veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We believe that blending individual strengths and unique personal differences nurtures and supports our organizations' shared commitment to our mission and creates an inclusive and diverse environment where everyone feels valued and has the opportunity to do their personal best.

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