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Senior Living, Real Estate, Healthcare

Cook Part-time

Southbury, CTOnsitePart TimeEntry-level (exp-based)$20–$21 /hrPosted 1 month ago

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Required skills

  • food preparation
  • full-line menu items
  • special diets
  • texture modified food
  • HACCP
  • labeling
  • storage protocols
  • temperature logs
  • record keeping
  • inventory

Nice to have

  • GED

Role summary

Seeking a part-time Cook for a senior living community to prepare high-quality meals for residents, families, and guests. Responsibilities include menu planning, preparing dishes, meeting special dietary needs, and ensuring compliance with food safety, sanitation, and record-keeping regulations. The role requires 1 year of related experience, ServSafe certification, and strong organizational and time management skills. This hybrid role offers flexible scheduling and paid time off.

We are looking for a Cook to join our team and prepare delicious meals for our senior living residents, their families, and guests. Reporting to the Director of Culinary Services, the Cook's responsibilities will include studying recipes, setting up menus and preparing high-quality dishes. You should be familiar with sanitation regulations. The Cook will also be responsible for accurate record keeping, receiving, rotating and inventory of products and regulatory compliance. Ultimately, this team member will prepare and deliver a complete menu that delights our senior living community.

Part-time: Monday/Tuesday 11:30am-7:30pm and Weekends 6am-2pm

Salary Range: $20.00 - $21.00 Hourly

  • Responsibilities and Duties

  • Prepare and serving quality meals
  • Ensure special dietary needs are met and preparing texture modified food, as directed
  • Ensure compliance with all record keeping, food safety and risk management requirements
  • Monitor food preparation, storage and handling to ensure adherence with HACCP, labeling, and storage protocols to ensure compliance with all food service regulations and policies
  • Maintain accurate hot and cold food, refrigerator, and freezer temperature logs
  • Participates in and attends all in-service training as scheduled
  • Ensures compliance with all Federal, State, and local regulations, as well as community policies and procedures
  • Other duties as assigned
  • Maintains a current ServSafe certification or able to obtain ServSafe certification
  • One year job related experience including food preparation, full-line menu items and special diets
  • High school diploma or GED accepted
  • Competent in organizational, time management skills and demonstrate good judgment, problem solving and decision-making skills

Physical Abilities

  • Maintains a current ServSafe certification or able to obtain ServSafe certification
  • One year job related experience including food preparation, full-line menu items and special diets
  • High school diploma or GED accepted
  • Competent in organizational, time management skills and demonstrate good judgment, problem solving and decision-making skills

Benefits Offered (for Part-Time Employees):

  • Paid Time Off (PTO) 
  • Flexible Schedule
  • On the job training
  • Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
  • Free Parking

Other Compensation Programs:

  • Employee Referral Bonus
  • Resident Referral Bonus

Equal Opportunity Statement:

Monarch Communities and Brandywine Senior Living is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Our mission is contemporary person-centric wellness senior living, designed for the next generation. A customized, curated, and organic approach to wellness inspires everything we do. All members of our communities – residents, their family members, and team members – help make our communities what they are.

Each and every member of our team is committed to developing progressive yet approachable communities to support the needs of all future generations. We want to transform healthcare infrastructure so that people can not only age well but live well and THRIVE. Apply now.

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