** Full Time Cook**

**Job Category****:** Cooks **Requisition Number****:** FULLT002866 Showing 1 location **Job Details**

**Description**

**Thomas Cuisine is looking for Great Cooks for Encompass Health!**

Your culinary career starts in the kitchens at Thomas Cuisine! Youll learn from, and work alongside some of the hospitality industrys most talented executive and sous chefs. Every day on the job is a specialized training program that helps you excel, and become a leader. Learn and grow, and take the opportunity to refine your skills through our in-house training programs.

Joining the Thomas Cuisine team is the next best step on your personal and professional journey. Your leaders will inspire you, and your team members will cheer you on, to live a fulfilling life, with a dependable schedule and regular hours. We do the right thing, and support you with career development programs, goal setting, and mentorship from the minute youre hired.

**$13.50-$15.00 /hr. DOE; full benefits, PTO/vacation time, wellness programs, and more!**

**Days and shifts vary**

***Kitchen Team***

*The heart and soul of every kitchen, Thomas Cuisine kitchen team members deliver on our promise to prepare scratch-made food, fresh each day. Day or night, youll be an integral part of a team working the line, in state-of-the-art kitchens inside hospitals, at upscale senior living communities, and corporate dining facilities.*

***Growth opportunities:***

* *Enhance your food knowledge*

* *Boost your organizational skills*

* *Execute your job with confidence*

* *Energize your team*

The **Cook** performs a wide variety of tasks and processes to prepare and cook food for patients, employees, and visitors, following standard practices and procedures while complying with regulatory requirements. Responsibilities include: follow standard recipes, filling out production sheets and other documentation to ensure nutritious, high quality, cost-effective meals, and handling food and equipment in accordance with sanitation and safety practices.

Successful candidates will have knowledge of cooking methods and procedures, including various types of preparation, related routines including the following.

* Reviews menus and assembles all items needed for preparation

* Evaluates food preparation and communicates suggested changes to improve operations

* Maintains equipment and cooking area in a neat, clean and orderly manner

* Follows kitchen opening/closing procedures.

* Handles food and equipment in accordance with sanitation and safety practices

* Reports repairs and maintenance needs to the Supervisor

* Meets time deadlines for patient meal service, cafeteria service, and caterings

* Utilizes progressive cooking procedures to ensure an optimum quality product

* Weighs and measures ingredients for the following day's production, keeping food refrigerated as needed, and using proper thawing procedures

* Documents supply acquisitions appropriately, both when ordering and removing items from the storeroom. Rotates supplies and maintains an orderly inventory at a minimum per level

* Ensures safety of food prepared by following safe sanitary food handling practices- hot food hot and cold food cold

* Follows specified cleaning procedures for all cooking equipment. Utilizes proper food storage practices- cover, label, and date

* Attend department meetings and in-services

* Must be able to successfully complete criminal background checks (State and Federal) and drug screenings

**Qualifications:**

* Familiar with kitchen equipment

* Speak clearly and present information orally in English

* Apply common sense understanding to carry out written and oral instructions

* One (1) year experience in high volume food production or five (5) years relevant experience in lieu of education with director approval

* Healthcare experience preferred but not required

* Ability to lift up to 25 lbs. and stand/walk frequently

**Thomas Cuisine [thomascuisine.com] is on the grow. Our passionate, hardworking team delivers a fresh take on foodservice every day.**

* Were the 15th largest contract dining management company in the country [Food Management Magazine].

* We are ranked among the top places to work [The Denver Post].

* Weve been honored for our outstanding response to COVID [Senior Living Residents Council].

* Weve been recognized with a Dining Distinction Award [Association of Nutrition and Foodservice Professionals

**Team Members Say**

so much growth, the opportunities are endless! Thomas Cuisine set me up for success.

if you have a love affair with cooking, this is the place for you.

Thomas Cuisine is an award-winning, privately-held contract food service company operating in 18 states and growing. We advocate the healing power of whole foods. We believe in preparing scratch-made cuisine fresh each day. Our clients include hospitals, upscale senior living communities, and corporate dining facilities. Every Thomas Cuisine team member is an ambassador, carrying out our mission, reflecting our values, and building relationships while "doing the right thing". We seek to make a valuable difference to those we serve- one nutritious meal at a time.

**REAL Food | Genuine Service | Enduring Relationships**

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