Chef

Key Areas of Responsibility:

• Meals Preparation
  • Prepare healthy well-balanced Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner for persons served
  • Interacting with persons served about special diets or other dietary needs in regards to the recovery
  • Present meals in an appetizing way that is pleasing to the eye
  • Prepares and/or orders food for NDWF events as needed
  • Maintaining a clean and orderly kitchen that will far exceed any health inspection, including ensuring that food is labeled per the standards expected of our licensing and accrediting bodies
  • Attending all necessary meetings regarding NDFW Dietary needs.
  • Design monthly meal menus
• Ordering Supplies
  • Ordering and purchasing all food and staying within the given budget for the food
  • Billing to other department reading food service for special events.
  • Ensuring that we use high quality food at reasonable prices
  • Reduce waste by keeping correct standard portions to meet nutritional needs.
• Reporting
  • Responsible for developing, reviewing and implementing all departmental policies, procedures and plans with the support of compliance consultants
  • Monthly food budget reports for finance department
  • Conducting research on special menus and foods that are recommended for recovery, as well as coordinating with a nutritionist annually to receive a report ensuring that the nutritional needs of the population served are being met
• Other
  • Present workshops and seminars to persons served regarding healthy eating and basic meal prep.

Skills/ Special Requirements:

• Must possess current California driver’s license or Identification Card.

• Food Handlers Card

• Clear Probation Check with Orange County Probation prior to employment starting.

• Must have sensitivity to and ability to embrace individuals of different genders, age, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion, physical abilities and those with diverse cultural backgrounds.

• Attendance in appropriate support groups is required, as directed by supervisor, in order to gain a better perception of the disease they will be working around or with on a daily basis in order to model 12 step principles. (AA, NA, OA, Al-Anon, etc.)

• Possess the ability to make independent decisions when circumstance warrants such action.

• Possess the ability to seek out new methods and principles and be willing to incorporate them into existing practices.

• TB test to be conducted yearly or be verified by a physician