Cook

Join our team who are making a difference, not just in healthcare, but right here in the heart of our community!

Kansas City Hospice and Palliative Care, the largest non-profit hospice agency in Kansas City, believes our care model provides the best possible service to our patients and their families.

Each day you will know that you and your team are making a difference in the lives of others.

Position Description:
To attend to the duties assigned to the everyday running of the kitchen including, but not limited to, food preparation, receiving, storing, and retrieving product, plating and utility work. The cook reports to the Chef.

If your heart draws you to Hospice and Palliative care, please apply!

You will enjoy meaningful work!

We Strive to be the Best Place to Work:

• We offer generous and competitive wages!

We Live Our Mission:
“To bring expert care, peace of mind, comfort, guidance, and hope to people who are affected by life-limiting illness or by grief. Our Vision is each person in our community is valued from life through death and each family is supported in their grief.”

We ask you to support us in achieving our Mission and Vision by contributing the following:

• Meet department uniform, appearance, and grooming and personal hygiene requirements.
• Be proficient at broiling, griddling, frying, sautéing, and oven and steamer cooking.
• Follow company procedures when preparing recipes, cooking and serving.
• Assure that all processes of production and expediting of items are not changed without consulting the Chef.
• Demonstrate proper use of all kitchen equipment.
• Label, date and rotate all perishable and prepared products.
• Prepare patient meals in accordance with patient request. Ensure that food is cooked too standard is eye appealing and has the proper texture.
• Prepare meals in a timely manner to meet serving schedule.
• Monitor par items then prep ingredients for future use.
• Practice HACCP, infection control and sanitation protocols to promote safe and sanitary food preparation.
• Receive and check all food and nonfood products for quality and accuracy related to product specifications, quantity and quoted price.
• Clean and sanitize kitchen area, as well as all equipment used in the food preparation following each meal.
• Perform cleaning duties including sweeping and mopping.
• Clean, sanitize and organize and family kitchen
• Clean walk-ins, storeroom and all F & B areas.
• Empty Trash
• Scrape food from soiled dishes and silverware, load into dishwasher racks and wash in a timely manner using proper sanitation techniques. Unload clean dishes and put them away in preparation for next meal.
• Monitor dishwasher chemicals supplies and replaces when needed.
• Monitor food supplies, paper goods and condiments and informs the Chef when those items are below par.
• Check and restock patient snack room daily.
• Keep all necessary documentation up to date.
• Make sure all kitchen, freezers, etc. are locked at closing.
• Ensure that cleaning schedules are completed and signed.
• Ensure that area is prepared for upcoming shifts.
• Keep work areas clean and free of safety hazards, debris and litter.
• Perform all job duties in a safe and responsible manner.
• Any reasonable request made by your supervisor.
• Other duties as assigned.

The Ideal Candidate Will Possess the Following Requirements:

• High School diploma or GED; two (2) years’ experience in food production.
• Ability to read, interpret and write in the English language. Ability to professionally and effectively respond to inquiries, complaints, and request for information in one-on-one and small groups situations to clients, healthcare professionals and community members.
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions and decimals.
• Ability to define and clarify problems, collect all relevant input, draw valid conclusions and enact appropriate and effective solutions. Display high levels of personal and professional maturity. Ability to analyze care needs, resources and allocate responsibilities. Ability to interpret clinical and technical information and application in relationship to job responsibilities.
• Ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously and work under stressful conditions. Professional maturity and the ability to respond effectively and calmly to emotionally distressed individuals. Ability to set and maintain appropriate professional boundaries with individual residents and group members.
• Reliable Transportation
• Communication and relationship skills: effective levels of written, oral and listening skills, always respecting the client's confidentiality.
• Team work: Functions consistently and collaboratively as part of the kitchen staff in addition to the other Hospice employees to contribute to optimal team functioning and outcomes.
• Ethics: Demonstrates a high level of work, personal and professional ethics.
• Available to work every Monday and every other Saturday.

Not all Hospice care organizations are created equal.

Learn why Kansas City Hospice & Palliative Care is truly special!

Kansas City Hospice and Palliative Care is an equal-opportunity, drug-free employer committed to diversity in the workplace. Minority/Female/Disabled/Protected Veteran/LGBTQIA persons encouraged to apply. We are dedicated and committed to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI). We don’t just accept differences—we celebrate them, we support them, and we thrive on them for the benefit of our employees, our patients, and our community. Our diversity defines us. It binds us. It makes us great.

To protect the health and safety of our workforce, patients and communities we serve, Kansas City Hospice and Palliative Care and its affiliate companies now require all employees to provide proof of full COVID-19 vaccination and Influenza vaccination prior to beginning employment or request a medical or religious exemption. Kansas City Hospice and Palliative Care adheres to all federal, state and local COVID-19 vaccination regulations as well as all client COVID-19 vaccination requirements and will obtain the necessary information from candidates prior to employment to ensure compliance. Candidates must be able to perform all essential job functions with or without reasonable accommodation. Failure to meet the vaccination requirement, physical agilities requirements as measured by agility testing, unsuccessful clearance on background investigation, including drug screening, may result in rescission of an employment offer or termination of employment.