Job Description
This is a general application for Agrace's Food Services team. Specific details will be shared with top candidates during the selection process.
Location: Madison, WI
Full-time/Part-time (up to 1.0 FTE) | up to 40 hrs/week | Day Shift | Monday-Friday | Kitchen hours 6a-6p (morning and mid shifts)
Some weekend requirements
Make a lasting impact with Agrace
Join Agrace, a nationally recognized nonprofit leader in hospice and palliative care. If you are looking for a role that helps support meaningful, patient-centered care, this is your opportunity to make a difference!
How You’ll Make a Difference
The Agrace Cook I is responsible for ensuring high-quality meals appropriate to each customer’s needs. With focuses on quality, communication, and service excellence, the Cook I is responsible for kitchen operations and environmental safety in the Agrace kitchens.
Key Responsibilities
Kitchen Operations
- Prepare and deliver appetizing patient meals appropriate to patient diet type and/or customer request.
- Ensure consistency and quality of all kitchen products and meals by using established workflows/systems, tasting food, presenting the food properly, and following Agrace recipes.
- Complete tasks within the required timelines and collaborates shift-to-shift.
- Request orders of kitchen food and supplies in accordance with the established ordering schedule.
- Stock and rotate food and supplies in the kitchen, nutrition centers, vending areas, and storage areas.
- Assist throughout the kitchen and café as required to meet production requirements.
Environmental Safety
- Follow all internal and external policies and procedures regarding safely preparing, packaging, storing, and serving food.
- Ensure the work area is kept clean, safe, and stocked appropriately for use at all times.\
Quality and Service Excellence
- Work with Inpatient Unit staff to ensure patient and family satisfaction.
- Collaborate directly with patients as appropriate to tailor meal services to meet specific needs.
- Promptly report patient and family concerns to Executive Chef.
Other Duties
- Participate in internal work groups, meetings and committees relative to position responsibilities.
- Lead and train kitchen volunteers.
You Bring (Qualifications)
- High school diploma or GED or equivalent combination of education and work experience
- 1 year of experience in a healthcare food services setting, preferred
- Beginning Microsoft Office Suite skills
- Ability to work effectively and cooperatively with others
- Experience using industry specific software
- Ability to communicate effectively verbally and in writing
- Ability to be flexible in time and task to meet organizational needs
- Ability to maintain confidentiality about patients, families, caregivers, staff, donors, and organizational intellectual property.
- Ability to use proper body mechanics and standard precautions
Benefits
- Competitive pay with free parking
- Health, dental, and vision insurance for employees who are hired for 28+ hours per week (.7 FTE +)
- Retirement plans with employer matching
- Generous Paid Time Off (PTO) and holiday paid time off
- Comprehensive onboarding, mentorship, and career development
About Agrace
For more than 45 years, Agrace has been an innovator and leader in both caring for patients and their families, and in educating others about death, dying and grief. We are the largest hospice provider in Wisconsin. Well known for end-of-life care, Agrace also serves people across southern Wisconsin who are aging, seriously ill or grieving.
At Agrace we are strengthened by the unique experiences, cultures and traditions of our staff, patients and clients.
Together, we pursue a vision in which every Agrace staff member is treated fairly, and every patient and client experiences the respectful, individualized care they need and deserve.
We foster a culture of belonging that celebrates people’s uniqueness and leads to meaningful, empathetic connections.
Agrace Health Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class.