** Cook - Retention Bonus offered**

**Job Category****:** Food & Nutrition Services **Requisition Number****:** COOKA024162 Showing 1 location **Job Details**

**Description**

**Cook**

We are currently offering a Retention Bonus!!! Inquire for additional information.

***B******ring your heart to work!*** ***Caring people make the difference at American Senior Communities!***

***Compassion, Accountability, Relationships and Excellence*** are the core values for American Senior Communities. These words not only form an acronym for C.A.R.E., they are our guiding principles and create the framework for all our relationships with customers, team members and community at large.

American Senior Communities has proudly delivered patient centered care since the year 2000, with a long history of excellent outcomes. Each of our 80 American Senior Community is part of the neighborhood in which it exists. Our leaders and staff live in surrounding areas and know the community well. We value the same things in life that you do. The foundation of our senior living communities is based on the knowledge that well be part of your neighborhood for many, many years. We take great pride in our hospitality and it is ingrained in everything we do. As partners in senior care, we are not just doing a job, but following a calling.

***Our commitment to our team members:***

* PayActiv Hourly employees have immediate access up to 50% of your earned pay

* Medical/Dental/Vision insurance available Plans starting as low as $20 a week

* Employees can access convenient telehealth services

* 401k

* PTO

* Tuition Assistance and up to $500 for certifications

* RecogNation platform recognizes employees who embody our Culture of Care by doing the right thing at the right time, the right way for the right reason.

* Workforce Chaplains: Confidential, non-denomination resource available for anyone in the ASC family

* Free Meal during shift

* Paid ServSafe Training & ACF Certification

* Paid Certified Dietary Manager Certification

* Employee Referral Program get paid to refer a friend to join our team

* Pathogen Reducing Air Purification devices in corridors and common areas to help combat COVID-19

* Making a difference in the lives of the patients we serve by providing them care and compassion.

* Acting as a positive teammate to fellow employees by helping onboard new teammates.

* Follows recipes and prepares food that corresponds to menu cycles prepared by the Registered Dietitian.

* Cooks or prepares palatable, attractive, nutritionally adequate meals in institutional quantities at proper temperatures and at proper times.

* Assists with demonstrating, instructing and educating dietary staff on preparations, garnishing and presentation of food.

* Supervises dietary staff with food preparation, assembling trays, cleaning, and storage of supplies and equipment.

* Prepares and maintains supply of food substitutes to accommodate resident choices, cultural, ethnic, and religious preferences.

***Requirements:***

* Demonstrates C.A.R.E. values to our residents, family members, customers and staff.

* High school diploma or general education degree (GED); or one to three years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.

* Prior Institutional and/or Healthcare service experience is preferred.

* Certification in Sanitation/Safe Food Handling is preferred.

We are Equal Opportunity-Affirmative Action Employer Minority / Female / Disability / Veteran and other protected categories.

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Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractors legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)