Cook - Temporary

Salary: $14.97 - $21.32 Hourly
Location : Woodward - 50276 - Boone County, IA
Job Type: Temporary
Job Number: 25-00982
Agency: 400 Health & Human Services - State Operated Specialty Care - Woodward Resource Center
Opening Date: 10/18/2024
Closing Date: 10/28/2024 11:59 PM Central
LinkedIn Tag: #LI-DNP
Point of Contact: Sheri Zubrod,
Job Description
Are you seeking a meaningful career where your culinary skills and experience can contribute to the well-being and happiness of others? Join us at Woodward Resource Center (WRC), an Iowa Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) facility, where we're actively seeking passionate individuals to join our team as a Temporary Cook. The Cook position works an eight-hour shift, between the hours of 6:00a.m. and 5:45 p.m. A Temporary Cook will work a maximum of 780 hours in a fiscal year (July 1 - June 30).
About Woodward Resource Center (WRC)
At WRC, our mission is to prepare and support individuals to live in the community of their choice. From the moment of admission, we're committed to providing quality care and support tailored to each person's needs and aspirations.
What You'll Do
As a Cook at WRC, you'll play a crucial role in our mission by providing quality care and support through your culinary expertise. Your responsibilities will include:

• preparation of delicious and nutritious meals for up to 500 individuals.
• following recipes to prepare a variety of menu items, including entrees, vegetables, baked goods, and salads, utilizing commercial food service equipment.
• adapting food textures to meet the needs of individuals with dysphagia, ensuring everyone can enjoy their meals safely and comfortably.
• ensuring food is prepared and served at the appropriate temperatures to meet food safety standards.
• completing necessary record-keeping tasks, such as temperature logs and recipe feedback.
• serving food with care and attention to detail.
• monitoring and maintaining food temperatures while adhering to safe food handling techniques.
• contributing to a clean and sanitary kitchen environment through daily, weekly, and periodic cleaning tasks.

Key Competencies
Successful candidates for this position will demonstrate the following competencies:

• knowledge of sanitary methods and personal hygiene standards applicable to institutional food service operations
• ethical conduct, honesty, and integrity in all interactions and tasks
• customer service orientation, with a polite, courteous, and cooperative approach to meeting the needs of our residents.
• initiative and commitment to maintaining high standards of quality and professionalism.

Join Us Today
Join us at WRC and be part of a team where your work truly matters. Apply now to start your journey towards a rewarding career with purpose!
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HHS values those with "lived experience" and encourages adults who were fostered as youth, foster parents, and/or parents who were in the DHS system to apply. Minorities, women, persons with disabilities, and veterans are encouraged to apply (Hearing and Speech Impaired - Relay Iowa 1-800-735-2942 TDD).
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Minimum Qualification Requirements
Experience equal to one year of full-time quantity food production in a commercial, military, hospital, or institutional setting;
OR
successful completion of a military, vocational, or community college program in commercial cooking;
OR
employees with current continuous experience in the state executive branch that includes experience equal to six months of full-time work as a Food Service Worker.
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How many months of full-time work experience do you have in quantity food production in a commercial, military, hospital, or institutional setting?

• No experience
• Less than 12 months of full-time work experience in quantity food production in a commercial, military, hospital, or institutional setting
• 12 or more months of full-time work experience in quantity food production in a commercial, military, hospital, or institutional setting

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Have you successfully completed a military, vocational, or community college program in commercial cooking?

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Are you a current State of Iowa employee (executive branch)? IF YES - How many months do you have of full-time work in the classification of Food Service Worker for the State of Iowa?

• Not applicable - I am not a State of Iowa employee
• No experience in the classification of Food Service Worker for the State of Iowa
• Less than six months of experience in the classification of Food Service Worker for the State of Iowa
• Six months or more of experience in the classification of Food Service Worker for the State of Iowa

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