Come grow your career at Deerfield Episcopal Retirement Community as a Cook for our culinary team. Nestled on 125 acres in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains, Deerfield is an outstanding senior living community with a resort-like atmosphere. Our dining team is an important part of resident life and our kitchen team enjoys guaranteed hours (with NO late nights), free parking, free uniforms and competitive pay along with a comprehensive benefits package. Come do what you do best in a workplace where you can grow your skills and your career. What You'll Do: As a cook at Deerfield, you are a team player and food waste reducer. You'll prepare and create nutritious dishes while putting customer service at the heart of everything you do. Your passion for food and warm smile will make a positive impact and brighten the day of those you serve. Join Deerfield and be part of something greater. You belong on a team where you can act with purpose and thrive in your own way. You provide the highest quality of food service to customers at all times. The cook will accurately and efficiently prepare, portion, and present a variety of hot and/or cold food items for various meal periods: to include Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner and Special/Catered Events. These responsibilities may differ depending on business necessities and client requirements. Responsibilities include:
- Prepare food as per the standardized recipes and specifications.
- Maintain HACCP logs.
- Perform small batch cooking and made-to-order items, display station set-up and service, transport cooked foods to hot boxes for line service.
- Provide support to the front-of-house operations with back-up food to ensure that there is no lag time between changing out food items.
- Portion food products prior to cooking according to standard portion sizes and recipe specifications.
- Perform specialty tasks such as display station set up and service, enhanced garnishing, recipe development and event meal assistance.
- Perform necessary cleaning of utensils, workspace, tables, shelves, and equipment in accordance with maintaining a Grade A Sanitation rating.
- Participate in recipe development, and event meal assistance.
- Other duties as assigned to ensure our Deerfield Community Dining business needs are met.
Full-time employees enjoy a full suite of benefits including PPO health insurance (no high deductible plans), dental, vision, 403(b) with employer match, generous time away, professional development, and scholarship opportunities. In addition, our employees enjoy access to many community amenities and a workplace culture that seamlessly blends heart and mind. Deerfield is faith-based, nonprofit, open to all, and provides a continuum of services to empower residents to live life to the fullest. We enrich the lives of those who live and work at Deerfield and commit to be a leader in the field of aging services. We provide a non-smoking campus and our employees provide either proof of COVID vaccine or provide a validated religious or medical exemption form. All new employees must successfully complete a background check and drug screen as part of our onboarding process. Deerfield is committed to providing access, equal employment opportunity and reasonable accommodation for individual with disabilities in all aspects of our employment, our services, programs and activities. To request reasonable accommodation or for additional information, contact us at ...@deerfieldwnc.org.