Lead Cook

Your experience matters

At UW Health Rehabilitation Hospital, we are committed to empowering and supporting a diverse and determined workforce who can drive quality, scalability, and significant impact across our hospitals and communities. In your role, you'll support those that are in our facilities who are interfacing and providing care to our patients and community members. We believe that our collective efforts will shape a healthier future for the communities we serve.

What we offer

Fundamental to providing great care is supporting and rewarding our team. In addition to your base compensation, this position also offers:

• Health (Medical, Dental, Vision) and 401K Benefits for full-time employees
• Competitive Paid Time Off
• Employee Assistance Program - mental, physical, and financial wellness assistance
• Tuition Reimbursement/Assistance for qualified applicants
• And much more...

About Us

People are our passion and purpose. UW Health Rehabilitation Hospital is a 50 bed hospital located in Madison, WI and is part of Lifepoint Health, a diversified healthcare delivery network committed to making communities healthier with acute care, rehabilitation, and behavioral health facilities from coast to coast. From your first day to your next career milestone-your experience matters

How you'll contribute

The Lead Cook will provide assistance to the Nutrition Services Manager in kitchen oversight for menu development, inventory control, sanitation and training of cooks and dietary aides. The Lead Cook will also function as a cook and will prepare, season and cook food for hospital patients, staff and visitors.

Qualifications and requirements

High School Diploma or GED preferred.

Previous experience in food service and cooking is required.

Prior healthcare experience preferred but not required.

Ability to communicate verbally and in writing.

Essential Functions:

Be fluent in healthcare kitchen sanitation, following all guidelines, and share this knowledge with team. Act as a role model. Hold team accountable for sanitation.

Always practice appropriate hand hygiene and glove usage. Have no bare hand contact with ready to eat food. Act as a role model. Hold team accountable for hand hygiene.

Act as first resource for questions. Maintain steady flow of appropriate communication both upward and downward.

Participate in onboarding and training of new dietary staff and completion of required competencies.

Provide training to cooks and dietary aides as needed. This includes planning ahead as well as the execution of day to day tasks.

Provide direction when menu substitutions or changes are required. Develop dietary team to be able to make decisions without needing assistance.

Provide feedback to manager and/or director regarding staff issues or concerns.

Assist in deciding how to rearrange kitchen staff schedule in order to best meet our patient needs for census and make decisions regarding staffing during call offs.

Complete physical inventory. Place orders for food, equipment and supplies.

Maintain storage area; clean, organize and ensure that all items are labeled and dated appropriately. Put away food orders.

Monitor department to ensure that standards for cleanliness and sanitation are maintained

Have an understanding of how inventory effects budget. Know what budget is and where spending is in relation to budget and census.

Assist in the development of department policies, procedures, job descriptions and work routines.

Provide work direction to cooks and dietary aides.

Plan catering events, assign work to aides and cooks and assist with completion.

Stay abreast of food recalls by subscribing to Federal Food Recall sites.

Notify Plant Operations when equipment repairs are necessary.

Oversee snack delivery system to nursing. Work with dietitian when changes are necessary.

Reconcile cash register daily.

Ensure that staff complete daily as assigned on the Daily Checklist

Audit nourishment rooms.

Perform Cook, Dietary Aide duties on weekends and holidays and as staffing requires.

Assist in menu development and recipe standardization.

Other duties as assigned.

EEOC Statement:

UW Health Rehabilitation Hospital is committed to providing Equal Employment Opportunities for all applicants and employees and complies with all applicable laws prohibiting discrimination against any employee or applicant for employment because of color, race, sex, age, religion, national origin, disability, genetic information, gender identity, sexual orientation, veterans' status or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state or local law.