Travel Cook - Healthcare facilities

Travel Cook

Now Hiring - Traveling Cook for our healthcare facilities across Fort Wayne and surrounding cities.

Take your culinary skills on the road while making a meaningful impact across multiple healthcare communities. As a Traveling Chef, you'll support kitchen operations, support dedicated teams, ensure quality dining experiences, and enjoy variety in a rewarding, mission-driven career.

POSITION SUMMARY:
The Traveling Chef is responsible for supporting culinary operations across multiple healthcare and assisted living communities. This position provides hands-on support in the kitchen while ensuring consistent food quality and service standards, and promotes a safe, nutritious, and resident-focused dining experience.

As a Traveling Cook you will travel between assigned facilities to provide operational support, cook and assist with menu execution, and ensure compliance with applicable food safety, sanitation, healthcare dining, and company standards.

Essential Job Functions:

·        Travel regularly between assigned assisted living and healthcare communities to assess and support culinary operations.

·        Follow consistent culinary standards, procedures, recipes, presentation, and service expectations across all locations.

·        Ensure efficiency, quality, and nutritional satisfaction through cooking and meal preparation.

·        Support new community openings, leadership transitions, staffing shortages, and operational turnarounds as needed.

·        Food Quality & Resident Experience to ensure meals are consistently appealing, flavorful, nutritious, properly portioned, and served at the appropriate temperature.

·        Support menus designed to meet the nutritional and dietary needs of senior and healthcare residents.

·        Ensure appropriate preparation and service of modified diets, therapeutic diets, texture-modified foods, and allergen-sensitive meals.

·        Maintain high standards for food safety, sanitation, personal hygiene, and kitchen cleanliness.

·        Ensure compliance with applicable federal, state, and local health regulations and healthcare/community policies.

·        Monitor proper food storage, temperature control, labeling, dating, allergen management, and sanitation procedures.

Education/Experience:

·        Must possess, at least a high school education or equivalent

·        Two (2) years dietary experience in a hospital or skilled nursing care facility preferred (but NOT required)

·        Experience working with senior adults or healthcare populations.

·        Must be able to cook a variety of foods in large quantities

·        ServSafe certification or equivalent food-safety credential.

Our Company provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, this company complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training