Chef

Position Summary The Chef position is responsible for overseeing all kitchen functions, ensuring balanced healthy meals are provided, delegating tasks to kitchen staff as appropriate, and ensuring all sanitation, food storage, and food handling and preparations comply with federal and state health department standards and regulations.
Duties: Prepares weekly menus with concern for quality, nutrition, appeal, presentation, cleanliness, and safety.
Serve a variety of food in a high-volume setting.
Regularly check all food items to ensure adequacy and quality at all times.
Maintain a clean and safe work environment ensuring all workstations & equipment are clean and always sanitized as appropriate, Ensures appropriate cleaning schedules for the kitchen, dining room, and storage areas are followed.
Completes necessary record keeping and reporting for meals served and food items needed required for reporting needs.
Using the proper methods and techniques for receiving, dating, and storage of quantities of food and associated supplies from vendors.
Schedule and maintain sufficient kitchen staff and assist with HR matters pertaining to kitchen staff.
Ensure accurate and timely personnel information and time reporting of kitchen staff hours is reviewed and approved each pay period.
Ensure that all menu items are presented in a neat and appetizing manner.
Ensures that dishwashing & cleaning procedures are completed at the end of meals & shifts.
Ensure that client diet restrictions and food allergies are known, and accommodation is made.
Maintain client confidentiality, as well as protecting client health information per HIPAA regulations.
Accountable for ensuring minimum food waste and staying within budget.
Other duties as assigned.
Competencies Achievement Focus sets and achieves challenging goals, demonstrates persistence and overcomes obstacles, measures self against standard of excellence, recognizes and acts on opportunities, and takes calculated risk to accomplish goals.
Communications Expresses ideas and thoughts verbally, express ideas and thoughts in written form, exhibits good listening and comprehension, keeps others adequately informed and selects and uses appropriate communication methods.
Manages Customer Focus promotes customer focus, establishes customer service standards, provides training in customer service delivery, monitors customer satisfaction, and develops new approaches to meeting customer needs.
Managing People provides direction and gains compliance, includes subordinates in planning, takes responsibilities for subordinate’s activities, makes self-available to subordinates, provides regular performance feedback, and develops subordinates’ skills and encourages growth.
Planning & Organization prioritizes and plans work activities, uses time efficiently, plans for additional resources, integrates changes smoothly, sets goals and objectives and works in an organized manner.
Problem Solving identifies problems in a timely manner, gathers and analyzes information skillfully, develops alternative solutions, resolves problems in early stages, and works well in group problem solving solutions.
Business acumen understands business implications of decision, conducts cost-benefit analyses, displays orientation to profitability, demonstrates knowledge of market and competition, and aligns work with strategic goals.
Demonstrates understanding of emergency procedures, alarm response evacuations and internal and external disaster plans.
Minimum Qualifications 3 years cooking experience in a care facility, homeless facility, or buffet/catering organization is required.
5 years’ experience as a Chef working in a healthcare or a care facility type environment is preferred.
Experience working for a Substance Abuse facility is preferred.
Nutrition and menu planning knowledge.
Must have a flexible schedule and the ability to work nights, weekends, and holidays.
1 year cooking experience in a Substance Abuse Facility is preferred.
Education and Certifications High School Diploma or GED is required.
Culinary School diploma is preferred.
Manager ServSafe (National Restaurant Association) certification is required.
Food Handlers Card / Riverside County is required.
Driver's License is required.
CPR and First Aid Certification is required.
Physical Demands The conditions herein are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential job functions.
Physical: This is a physically demanding position; you must be capable and comfortable with a high level of motor movement throughout the day to work in a kitchen setting.
Demands of this position can include standing for prolonged periods of time, stooping, bending, kneeling, crouching, reaching, twisting, lifting, carrying, pushing, and/or pulling light to moderate amounts of weight (up to 50 pounds).
Additionally, this position requires you to be able to operate kitchen equipment which requires repetitive movement.
Vision: Close, distant, and peripheral vision ability, including depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.
Verbal: Capable of clearly communicating with fellow co-workers, managers, and clients of the Center.
Hearing: Hear normal audio range with or without correction.
Environment: Work is performed in a standard clinical environment with client contact and frequent interruptions.
This position may be exposed to bodily fluids, odors, and cleaning products on an occasional basis.
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Recovery Center, Inc.
provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws.
It is our policy to abide by all federal, state and local laws prohibiting employment discrimination based on a person's race (including hair texture and hairstyles), color, religious creed, sex, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, pregnancy, childbirth, physical disability, mental and/or intellectual disability, age, military status, veteran status (including protected veterans), marital status, registered domestic partner or civil union status, familial status, gender (including sex stereotyping and gender identity or expression), medical condition (including, but not limited to, cancer related or HIV/AIDS related), genetic information, sexual orientation, or any other protected status.
This job description does not list all the duties of the job.
You may be asked by managers to perform other instructions and duties.
This job description may be revised from time to time and does not constitute a contract for employment.