Posted 8 days ago
Chef Manager - Full Time - First Shift
AI Summary
Manages the culinary and kitchen team in a health system nutrition services department, ensuring food quality, staff performance, inventory, and compliance with food safety standards.
About this role
As one of the nation's Top 15 Health Systems, recognized by Premier and Modern Healthcare, Valley Health is a place where excellence, compassion, and purpose come together. This distinction reflects our commitment to exceptional patient care, clinical quality, and the caregivers who make it all possible.
Department
NUTRITION SERVICES - 208052Worker Sub Type
RegularWork Shift
Pay Range
$27.42 - $42.50Job Description
Responsibilities and Duties
Attracts and retains staff, maintains a cooperative relationship with team members, optimizes staff productivity and serves as replacement in team members' absence.
Sets and monitors performance standards for staff to include hand hygiene and equipment cleanliness.
Trains staff to use new recipes, cooking techniques and equipment, and oversee cooks performing food preparation.
Manages culinary team to ensure quality in final presentation of food.
Trains and manages culinary and kitchen employees to use best practice food production techniques.
Coaches employees by creating a shared understanding about what needs to be achieved and how it is to be achieved.
Rewards and recognize employees.
Plan and execute team meetings and daily huddles.
Complete and maintain all staff records including training records, shift opening/closing checklists and performance data.
Performs inventory and purchase orders and provides oversight of the delivery of food supplies, prepare special dishes, supervise overall kitchen operations, and ensures promptness, freshness and quality of dishes.
Responsible for delivering food and labor targets.
Understands performance metrics, data, order and inventory trends, consistent focus on margin improvement.
Obtains feedback on food and service quality, and handling customer and patient problems and complaints.
High volume experience with bulk/batch cooking knowledge.
Education
Associates degree from a culinary school is preferred.
Experience
(5) years of culinary experience is required.
Certification & Licensure
Serv Safe certification is required within 6 months of employment.
Qualifications
Excellent verbal and written communication skills required.
Attention to details required.
Ability to mentor and lead staff required.
Benefits
At Valley Health, we believe everyone is a caregiver, and our goal is to create an environment where our caregivers thrive physically, financially, and emotionally. In addition to a competitive salary, our most popular benefits for full-time employees include:
- A Zero-Deductible Health Plan
- Dental and vision insurance
- Generous Paid Time Off
- Tuition Assistance
- Retirement Savings Match
- A Robust Employee Assistance Program to help with many aspects of emotional wellbeing
- Membership to Healthy U: An Incentive-Based Wellness Program
Valley Health also offers a health savings account & flexible spending account for childcare, life insurance, short-term and long-term disability, and professional development. In addition, several perks come with working for the largest employer in the region, such as discounts to on-campus dining, and more.
To see the full scale of what we offer, visit valleyhealthbenefits.com.
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