Cook

Job Summary

A Cook is a key role in our business. One could look at the job and say primarily you cook and prepare large amounts of food...and that would be true. However, being a cook is about much more than a list of tasks. It is about relationships and making people's day better each and every time you come in contact with them. When you do that, you as a Hope Landing Cook will become part of our residents' family and that will not only change their life, but yours as well.

Cooks prep, cook and help serve meal service three times daily for our 30 residents. 

11.5-hour shifts. Full Time is at least 3 days a week, generally 4 days.

Pay from $13-18 Hourly (Wage calculated with a set pay scale, initially determined by education, experience and certifications)

Full Time Available
OT Available
11.5 Hour Shifts
Flexible Schedules
No Mandating Shifts or OT
Experience Appreciated but Not Required

Job Type: Full-time

Benefits:

Work Tasks

• Clean, cut, and cook meat, fish, or poultry. 
• Cook food according to menus, special dietary or nutritional restrictions, or numbers of portions to be served. 
• Clean and inspect equipment, kitchen appliances, and work areas to ensure cleanliness and functional operation. 
• Portion and serve food to facility residents, employees, and guests. 
• Direct activities of one or more workers who assist in preparing and serving meals. 
• Wash pots, pans, dishes, utensils, and other cooking equipment.        
• Take inventory of supplies and equipment. 
• Bake breads, rolls, and other pastries. 
• Train new employees. 

• Verify that prepared food meets requirements for quality and quantity. 
• Operate large-volume cooking equipment such as grills, ovens, or griddles. 
• Measure ingredients required for specific food items being prepared. 
• Clean, stock, and restock workstations.
• Pre-cook items such as bacon, to prepare them for later use. 
• Mix ingredients such as pancake or waffle batters. 
• Prepare dough, following recipe. 
• Take delivery of supplies

Required Knowledge

• Customer and Personal Service — Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.

Required Skills

• Time Management — Managing one's own time and the time of others. 
• Monitoring — Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action. 
• Judgment and Decision Making — Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one. 
• Operation Monitoring — Watching gauges, dials, or other indicators to make sure a machine is working properly. 
• Quality Control Analysis — Conducting tests and inspections of products, services, or processes to evaluate quality or performance. 
• Reading Comprehension — Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents. 
• Service Orientation — Actively looking for ways to help people. 
• Speaking — Talking to others to convey information effectively. 
• Active Learning — Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making. 
• Active Listening — Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times. 
• Complex Problem Solving — Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions. 
• Coordination — Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions. 
• Critical Thinking — Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems. 
• Management of Personnel Resources — Motivating, developing, and directing people as they work, identifying the best people for the job.

Required Abilities

• Information Ordering — The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations). 
• Near Vision — The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer). 
• Oral Comprehension — The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences. 
• Problem Sensitivity — The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem. 
• Arm-Hand Steadiness — The ability to keep your hand and arm steady while moving your arm or while holding your arm and hand in one position. 
• Manual Dexterity — The ability to quickly move your hand, your hand together with your arm, or your two hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects. 
• Speech Clarity — The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you. 
• Time Sharing — The ability to shift back and forth between two or more activities or sources of information (such as speech, sounds, touch, or other sources). 
• Deductive Reasoning — The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense. 
• Inductive Reasoning — The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events). 
• Oral Expression — The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand. 
• Selective Attention — The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted. 
• Speech Recognition — The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person. 
• Written Comprehension — The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.