*Job Location: Choctaw Regional Medical Center and Choctaw Nursing Rehabiliation Center *

General Summary: Under the direct supervision of the Dietary Manager, the dietary cook will prepare, season, and cook food for nursing home residents, staff, and visitors.

Essential Functions:

• Understand and follow menus.
• Must be knowledgeable on how to prepare the following diet types:
• Diabetic diet
• Pureed diet
• Incident Command System (ICS) diet
• Mechanical Soft Chopped Meat diets
• Dysphagia diets Level 1,2,3
• Recognize a variety of meats and vegetables needed to create the 28-day cycle menu.
• Wash, clean, and prepare all meats and vegetables to be cooked for menu.
• Must clean up equipment in kitchen involved with job completion such as stove, fryer, ovens, steam table, etc.
• Know how to set up and maintain steam table for food service.
• Recognize temperature(s) for safe food service and proper holding/ discard timing and reheat protocol.
• Know how to wash, rinse, and sanitize the prepping, cooking, and serving dishes.
• Check food temperatures and maintain food record log.
• Proper handling of kitchen refuge.
• Must recognize universal precautions regarding chemicals, blood, etc.

Required Qualifications:

• High School Diploma or equivalent.

Physical Requirements:

• Standing/walking continuously.
• Bending / stooping continuously.
• Lifting/handling, carrying, pushing/pulling, twisting/turning, crouching, balancing, kneeling continuously.
• Handling/Manual Dexterity, speaking/hearing continuously.