Cook (Dining Services III) - Veterans Community Living Center Fitzsimons - Aurora, CO

Posting number: ILG 00191 08/10/2026

Department: Colorado Department of Human Services

Division: OAADS - Colorado State Veterans Home at Fitzsimons

Job classification: Dining Services III

Posting type: Open & Promotional

Categories: Food Services, Human Services, Veteran Services, Nutrition

Summary

Examples of duties

You are required to work at your assigned work location during your scheduled work times.  Please note: Work arrangements are subject to change at any time. 

The work unit exists to provide quality care to residents by meeting or exceeding the standards as prescribed by the Veterans Administration and the Colorado Department of Public Health. This work unit exists to provide full dining services for 180 nursing home residents, catering, and staff meals. Responsible for three balanced, nutritious meals daily, meeting all dietary needs of all residents as per physician orders, ensuring meals are served timely at the correct temperature, and accurately maintaining diet cards, within state and federal regulations. Additionally, the work unit maintains a sanitary and safe work environment.

This position functions independently in performing a full range of responsibilities that include but are not limited to cooking meals in the main and satellite kitchens, serving residents, cleaning, sanitation, and related tasks. This includes following generally accepted and facility food service standards. This position performs a variety of heavy manual labor food service duties, including, but not limited to, cleaning and sanitizing the kitchen, the kitchen equipment, utensils, dishes, pots, and pans. The position requires heavy lifting, manual labor, long periods of standing and walking, which includes delivering the food to the satellite kitchens. This position helps to stock and maintain par levels in the storeroom, coolers, and freezers.

Additionally, as a Dining Services III (Cook) you can expect to:

• Provide excellent customer service to all internal and external customers.
• Communicate immediately and directly with the food service director regarding any department concerns.
• Main kitchen sanitation. Cleans each piece of equipment after each use, and cleans the kitchen, equipment, and floors at the end of each shift. Washes and sanitizes pots and pans wash down walls, racks, and floors in walk-in refrigerators. Cleans and sanitizes all kitchen food service equipment. Cleans dining room tables and sanitizes, cleans chairs, washes dishes and silverware, and puts them away
• Collects and disposes of trash and maintains the dumpster trash area.
• Follows standardized recipes to prepare meals to appropriate temperatures and textures: pureed, mechanical, regular, hot, and cold items. Prepares all aspects of meals to food safety standards, visual appeal, and palatability for residents.
• Prepare enough of all menu items for residents and prepare enough therapeutic diets in the appropriate texture and temperature. Follows the therapeutic worksheets for correct portion sizes and texture.
• Monitors all food temperatures and records on proper form while food is removed from the oven/ cooling unit before the items leave the main kitchens and provides solutions to aid(s) for discrepancies in food temps.
• Prepare and serve residents in private dining rooms as needed and on special occasions, and deliver food as required to the proper units
• Monitors the a