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Cook
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 6 days ago
About the Role
This position is located in the Nutrition and Food Service of a Veteran Affairs Medical Center. Nutrition and Food Services is responsible for providing meals and nutritional care to Veteran patients at the Medical Center.
What You'll Do
- →The duties of this position include, but are not limited to: Independently prepares all types of food for regular and modified diets.
- →Incumbent prepares, cooks, seasons, and portions food for all meals so that the completed food products are ready at the appropriate temperature and time and are visually appealing to customers.
- →Prepares menu items using special or difficult recipes that require numerous interrelated steps, many ingredients, and lengthy preparation time.
- →The incumbent prepares a variety of menu items using several different and complex methods of preparation such as cook/chill and cook/serve.
- →Follows menus, production sheets and recipes to prepare items in the quantity needed.
- →Calculate and determine serving portions from quantities of food issued to include meats, poultry, seafood, vegetables, fruits, sauces, and gravies for regular and modified diets.
- →Prepare or coordinate the preparation of entire meals and prepare, season, and determine serving portion food for all meals by following standardized, special, or difficult recipes.
- →Coordinates cooking of several items with different cooking times and characteristics.
- →Prepares complex recipes with multiple steps and lengthy preparation times.
- →Cooking techniques (such as sous vide, and combi-oven) may be employed.
- →Coordinates the cooking of items prepared by other cooks at one or more work centers.
- →May lead lower-graded cooks engaged in a variety of standard cooking operations simultaneously at one or more work centers.
- →Attractively presents and garnishes food.
- →Cooks hot cereals, concentrated or dehydrated soups, sauces, gravies.
Requirements
- ✓Citizenship; non-citizens may only be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens in accordance with VA Policy.
- ✓Suitable for Federal employment, determined by a background investigation Selective Services Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959 Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process.
- ✓Acceptable form(s) of identification will be required to complete pre-employment requirements (https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/form-i-9-acceptable-documents).
- ✓Effective May 7, 2025, driver's licenses or state-issued dentification cards that are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment.
- ✓Complete all application requirements detailed in the "Required Documents" section of this announcement.
- ✓As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you will be required to serve a 1-year probationary period during which we will evaluate your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest.
- ✓In determining if your employment advances the public interest, we may consider: your performance and conduct; the needs and interests of the agency; whether your continued employment would advance organizational goals of the agency or the Government; and whether your continued employment would advance the efficiency of the Federal service.
- ✓Upon completion of your probationary period, your employment will be terminated unless you receive certification, in writing, that your continued employment advances the public interest.
Personality Fit
Job ID: 5a712fa6-f464-4aa1-a0f2-0ad88f65fc97
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