What are the responsibilities and job description for the Substitute Cook position at West Virginia Department of Education?
- Perform housekeeping, cooking, and maintenance functions in safe manner.
- Document food used, served, and left over according to production times or dates opened.
- Assist in implementing food safety.
- Measure, mix, and cook ingredients.
- Assist in ordering food for weekly menus, receiving, and stocking inventory using first in, first out (FIFO) inventory method.
- Exhibit professionalism in dealing with co-workers, students, parents, and staff.
- Prepare and submit reports such as daily lunch reports, monthly lunch reports, and meal report for the county's Child Nutrition office.
- Prepare and submit accident reports to immediate supervisor.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the nutritional information and safe handling information from food labels.
- Explain the meaning of the ingredients list, including knowledge of ingredients that might be harmful to students with special diets or food allergies.
- Evaluate different methods of preparation appropriate to specific meats, vegetables, salads, and quick breads.
- Demonstrate knowledge of preparation time and holding processes of foods prepared.
- Utilize a Child Nutrtion (CN) label to demonstrate appropriate serving size.
- Select the appropriate utensils and demonstrate their use in weighing and measuring ingredients.
- Match food preparation tasks to kitchen equipment and utlize the equipment which most efficiently and safely completes the task.
- Practice and enforce good personal hygiene, using precautions to prevent the spread of contagious disease.
- Estimate food requirements and portions using appropriate math skills.
- Adapt standardized recipes using math skills of adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing whole numbers and fractions to calculate the desired yield.
- Follow the food safety plan procedures to maintain safe and sanitary conditions of facility equipment, food storage, food preparation, and food service.
- Exhibit flexibility and problem-solving skills when unexpected circumstances occur.
- Determine appropraite food temperatures for food preparation, storage, and service according to the food safety plan.
- Prepare all foods according to Standard Operating Procedures.
- Identify and correctly use the mixer, convection oven, slicer, steam equipment, vertical cutter, food chopper, and dishwasher.
- Be familiar with measurement abbreviations and food preparation terminology.
- Input meal participation data into computer programs.
- Physical Requirements:
- Must be able to stand and walk up to eight hours per day.
- Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.
JobID: 46667
Position Type:
Cook/Nutrition Services/Substitute Cook
Cook/Nutrition Services/Substitute Cook
Date Posted:
7/2/2025
7/2/2025
Location:
Clay County Schools
Clay County Schools
Closing Date:
06/30/2026
06/30/2026
County:
Clay County Schools
RequirementsClay County Schools
High School Diploma or GED
Food Handlers Card
Pending Employment
Criminal Background Check
Drug Test
Employment Test for Cook Classification
Salary/Benefits
WV Salary Scale for Substitute Service Personnel
SERVICE PERSONNEL
Cook I
Personnel employed as a cook's helper.
Cook II
Personnel employed to interpret menus and to prepare and serve meals in a food service program of a school,. This definition includes a service person who has been employed as a "Cook I" for a period of four years.
Cook III
Personnel employed to prepare and serve meals, make reports, prepare requisitions fo supplies, order equipment and repairs for a food service program of a school system.
Cafeteria Manager
Personnel employed to direct the option of a food service program in a school, including assigning duties to employees, approving requisitions for supplies and repairs, keeping inventory, inspecting areas to maintain high standards of sanitation, preparing financial reports, and keeping records pertinent to food service of a school.
Classification definitions obtained from W.Va. Code §18A-4-8.
Sample Job Description
The Clay County School System is an equal opportunity employer. Employment opportunities are offered without discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, gender, age, disability, and retaliation.