Cook II

**Status:** Full Time / PRN | **Shift:** Varies | **Weekend Work:** Every

**_Location:_** _Bartow Medical Center, [Bartow, FL]_

**Love to Cook?** Turn your passion into purpose! BayCare is looking for Cooks to help provide nutritious meals and help nourish our patients, visitors, and team members every day.

**Key Responsibilities:**

+ Responsible for the preparation of foods according to the standardized recipes, and production methods.

+ Ensures high quality using safe, sanitary food handling techniques during preparation, service and storage and daily quality control checks.

+ Works multiple production stations and conducts quality control checks on taste, temperature and presentation on patient, cafeteria, and catering foods.

+ Trains and orients selected staff on food production along with safety and sanitation practices.

+ Leads production in absence of Executive Chef according to facility.

+ Performs other duties as necessary.

**Experience**

+ **Required:** 4 years as a Cook / 2 years with high school Diploma or Culinary Diploma

+ **Preferred:** 2 years in Healthcare

**Education**

+ **Required:** High School Diploma or Equivalent

**Certification**

+ **Required:** ServSafe Manager food safety certification within 1 year of hire.

**About BayCare:**

BayCare is one of the largest employers in the Tampa Bay area, operating 16 hospitals, a long-term acute care facility, home health services, and outpatient centers while partnering with thousands of physicians. With the support of more than 30,000 team members, we are dedicated to a culture of trust, dignity, respect, responsibility, and clinical excellence.

**Equal Opportunity Employer – Veterans/Disabled**

**Position** Cook II

**Location** Bartow Medical Center | Support Services | Full Time

**Req ID** 151013