Cook I

Westminster Canterbury of Lynchburg, a 5-Star rated Continuing Care Retirement Community in Central VA is seeking a Cook I to join our team! Full-time position available with complete benefits package including Medical, Dental, Vision, Paid Time Off, 403B with match, and more.  Typical hours are 11:00 AM - 7:00 PM

- Prepares and cooks to order foods requiring short preparation time.

- May produce food and serve customers at an a la carte station or may operate a grill station.

- Prepares food in accordance with current applicable federal, state and corporate standards, guidelines and regulations to ensure high-quality food service is provided.

- Reads food order or receives verbal instructions on food required by customers, and prepares and cooks food according to instructions.

- Provides the highest quality of service to customers at all times.

- Follows basic recipes and/or product directions for preparing, seasoning, cooking, tasting, carving, and serving soups, meats, vegetables, desserts, and other foodstuffs for consumption in eating establishments.

- Prepares foods under direct supervision or instruction by operating a variety of kitchen equipment to measure and mix ingredients, washing, peeling, cutting, and shredding fruits and vegetables, and trimming and cutting meat, poultry or fish for culinary use.

- Tastes products, reads menus, estimates food requirements, checks production, and keeps records in order to accurately plan production requirements and requisition supplies and equipment.

- May clean and sanitize workstations and equipment and must follow all Westminster Canterbury, client, and regulatory rules and procedures.

Requirements

- Must be a high school graduate or GED.

- Previous cooking experience preferred (0-2 years).

- Good working knowledge of food preparation.

- Serve Safe certificate required or must be willing to obtain within 6 months.

- Knowledge of food handling and safety procedures.

- Ability to work well with all types of individuals.
Westminster Canterbury of Lynchburg is committed to best practices for infection control; therefore, we will require all team members to receive the influenza and recommend COVID-19 vaccines.