Cook I

Job Summary: Prepares and serves food to customers, following recipes and safety guidelines.

Education/Experience: High School diploma or GED and one year of food service experience.

Work Days/Hours: Variable Schedule.

Licensure/Certification: Not required.

Essential Functions:

1. Follows hospital and departmental policies, emphasizing customer service and teamwork.
2. Aims for high customer satisfaction and service quality.
3. Maintains sanitation standards and cleanliness, complying with health regulations.
4. Monitors food quality, productivity, and schedules.
5. Ensures workplace safety and sanitation.
6. Completes required training and participates in improvement initiatives.
7. Minimizes waste and controls costs.
8. Plans workday efficiently and manages food quantities.
9. Prepares food following standardized recipes, maintains food logs, and follows safety guidelines.

Skills & Qualifications:

• Proficiency in English and ability to follow instructions.
• Operate cooking equipment and adjust recipes for volume.
• Tolerate temperature variations.
• Desire to achieve high customer service standards.
• Availability for weekends and holidays.
• Effective communication with patients, visitors, employees, and managers.

Work Environment: May work in various areas, including the kitchen and retail spaces, with exposure to wet floors and sharp equipment.

Physical Requirements:

• Standing (65%)
• Walking (35%)
• Bending (to 35%)
• Reaching with arms (to 35%)
• Finger and hand dexterity (to 35%)
• Talking (to 35%)
• Hearing (to 35%)
• Seeing (to 35%)
• Lifting, carrying, pushing, and pulling:
  • Up to 20 lbs. (to 35%)
  • Up to 50 lbs. (to 35%)
  • Up to 100 lbs. (N/A)

Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist is a pre-eminent academic health system based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist is part of Advocate Health, which is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, and is the fifth-largest nonprofit health system in the United States, created from the combination of Atrium Health and Advocate Aurora Health. Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist’s two main components are an integrated clinical system – anchored by Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, an 885-bed tertiary-care hospital in Winston-Salem – that includes Brenner Children’s Hospital, five community hospitals, more than 300 primary and specialty care locations and more than 2,700 physicians; and Wake Forest School of Medicine, the academic core of Atrium Health Enterprise and a recognized leader in experiential medical education and groundbreaking research that includes Wake Forest Innovations, a commercialization enterprise focused on advancing health care through new medical technologies and biomedical discovery.

Wake Forest Baptist Health, Wake Forest University School of Medicine and Atrium Health have joined forces in a strategic combination that will enhance care, transform medical education and create economic opportunity for countless lives in North Carolina and beyond. As a part of that combination, the two health systems will be integrating technology and platforms, including our career sites.

This means that although you are applying on the Wake Forest Baptist Health Career Site, you receive communications from the Atrium Health Recruitment Team. Please know that this is an expected process, and thanks in advance for your flexibility.