* Follows guidelines of preparation and recipes for all patients, cafeteria, and catering meals.

* Follows production tool and/or electronic meal tallies/differentials for food preparation.

* Follows therapeutic diet modifications and guidelines for all patient meal trays, nourishments, snacks and supplements.

* Comprehension of Specialty diets, Dysphagia, Low Sodium, Low Sugar, Clear Liquids, Liquids, and adaptive devices for disables patients.

* Preparation work in institutional cooking and knowledge of meals aimed at patients with unique dietary restrictions.

* Knowledge of batch cooking, for room service menu versus menu of day.

* Must be adept at reading and comprehending complex dietary instructions provided by physicians and dieticians.

* Provides assistance to other work areas.

* Performs inspections daily to ensure food safety, adequate temperature checks and schedule changes.

* Delegates, and assigns tasks to Nutrition Assistant with assistance from supervisor.

* Assists the kitchen supervisor by performing lead functions in the department's operations.

* Stores and stocks food and supplies for department/other.

* Works patient room service, grill, deli, and retail, following therapeutic diet and allergy restrictions.

* Adheres to Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP).

* Follows the master cleaning guidelines.

* Adheres to food safety guidelines which are established by local health department standards.

* Adheres to established protocol for cleaning of all service ware: remove debris, wash, rinses, sanitize and air dry before storage.

* Adheres to time and temperature control during preparation, service, and storage of all food.

* Adheres to proper cleaning and maintenance of work station-clean, wash, rinse, and sanitize prior to start of preparation, during preparation, and at end of preparation.

* Adheres to physical safety standards.

* Must continuously clean work areas, food and cooking utensils. Cleaning is performed before, during and after cooking.

* Responsible for reporting any safety-related incident in a timely fashion through the Midas/RDE tool; attends all safety-related training programs; performs work in a safe manner; monitors work environment for possible safety issues and ensures others are also performing work in a safe manner.

* Stays current and complies with state and federal regulations/statutes and company policies that impact the employee's area of responsibility.

* If required for the position, ensures all certifications and/or licenses are up-to-date and valid prior to expiration dates.

* Completes all company mandatory modules and required job-specific training in the specified time frame.

* Competent in therapeutic diet knowledge and demonstrates ability to follow diet modifications.

* Adheres to infection control guidelines and practices.

* Accurately completes all manual and electronic forms.