Cook I-Lexington

Cook I 

Prepares and serves food based on customer orders, ensuring high-quality service. Operates kitchen equipment, follows recipes, and maintains cleanliness and safety standards. May assist with inventory, special dietary meals, and sanitation tasks.

Position Highlights: 

• Located in Lexington, NC
• Day 1 Health Coverage: Choose from either copay or HSA-eligible health insurance options with coverage starting on your first day of work.   
• Generous PTO: Accrual starts at 25 days/year, to be used for vacations, sickness, holidays, and personal matters. 

You’ll Need: 

• High school diploma or GED 
• One year of experience in food service 

Essential Functions: 

1. Provide excellent customer service, ensuring positive interactions with customers, patients, and staff.
2. Prepare food using recipes and departmental guidelines to maintain high quality and portion control.
3. Maintain sanitation standards, completing daily and weekly cleaning assignments, and meeting health department requirements.
4. Set up and monitor food stations, ensuring product quality and adherence to recipes.
5. Follow all safety and sanitation regulations to maintain a safe work environment.
6. Complete required training, including compliance, HIPAA, TJC/OSHA, and job-specific skills like grilling and knife work.
7. Support team efforts and performance improvement initiatives, including attending meetings and promoting diversity.
8. Minimize waste, manage supplies, and ensure proper use and storage of food and equipment.
9. Plan daily tasks to ensure timely meal preparation and address any adjustments with managers as needed.
10. Document leftovers, label and store food properly, and follow HACCP guidelines for safety.

Skills/Qualifications: 

• Fluent in English and able to follow instructions.
• Ability to operate kitchen equipment and adjust recipes for volume.
• Adaptable to varying temperatures in cooking and storage areas.
• Strong customer service skills.
• Willingness to work weekends and holidays.
• Ability to communicate effectively with a diverse range of people.

Work Environment: 

• May work in kitchen, retail, or other food service areas.
• Exposure to wet floors and sharp equipment.

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.