Food Services Lead

The Lead Cook oversees daily food preparation and service across patient meals, caf operations, and catering, ensuring all items meet quality, dietary, and sanitation standards. This role prepares meals according to established recipes, supervises kitchen staff, and ensures efficient, compliant operations. The Lead Cook also supports inventory management and may assists with menu planning.

The value you'll bring to the team: Prepare and cook high-quality, visually appealing meals for patients, caf service, and catering events, following established recipes and production sheets. Create and update menus, recipes, and production records in collaboration with leadership to support dietary compliance and operational efficiency. Maintain clean and sanitary workspaces, equipment, and storage areas by following HACCP guidelines and recording temperatures accurately. Oversee food production activities, ensuring proper portioning, batch cooking, and adherence to culinary standards for both patient and retail services.

The expertise and experiences you'll need to succeed: Required qualifications: Organizational Verbal Interpersonal Customer Relations Grammar/Spelling Read/Comprehend written instructions Follow verbal instructions Keyboarding (manual) Computer (visual)

• Oversees daily food preparation and service across patient meals, caf operations, and catering, ensuring all items meet quality, dietary, and sanitation standards.
• Prepares meals according to established recipes, supervises kitchen staff, and ensures efficient, compliant operations.
• Supports inventory management and may assists with menu planning.
• Prepare and cook high-quality, visually appealing meals for patients, caf service, and catering events, following established recipes and production sheets.
• Create and update menus, recipes, and production records in collaboration with leadership to support dietary compliance and operational efficiency.
• Maintain clean and sanitary workspaces, equipment, and storage areas by following HACCP guidelines and recording temperatures accurately.
• Oversee food production activities, ensuring proper portioning, batch cooking, and adherence to culinary standards for both patient and retail services.

• Organizational
• Verbal Interpersonal
• Customer Relations
• Grammar/Spelling
• Read/Comprehend written instructions
• Follow verbal instructions
• Keyboarding (manual)
• Computer (visual)

• Benefits from Day One
• Paid Days Off from Day One
• Student Loan Repayment Program
• Career Development
• Whole Person Wellbeing Resources

Innovative thinking, advanced technology, expert providers, and world-class resources right here in our community. Our mission is to extend the healing ministry of Christ by caring for those who are ill and by nurturing the health of the people in our communities, and we have done that for more than 30 years. As part of fulfilling our mission, AdventHealth Littleton has grown into a world-class organization, serving more than 70,000 patients a year in the flourishing Littleton, Highlands Ranch, and Centennial communities, and the number keeps growing. Every day, our fellow team members show up to work, unified by one shared mission: Extending the Healing Ministry of Jesus Christ. As a faith-based health care organization, our story is one of hope as we strive to heal and restore the body, mind and spirit. Though our facilities are spread across the country, this unwavering belief binds us together. Across every office, exam and patient room, we’re committed to providing individualized, holistic care. This is our Christian mission, and it inspires us to help make communities healthier and happier.

Joining AdventHealth is about being part of something bigger. It’s about belonging to a community that believes in the wholeness of each person, and serves to uplift others in body, mind and spirit. AdventHealth is a place where you can thrive professionally, and grow spiritually, by Extending the Healing Ministry of Christ. Where you will be valued for who you are and the unique experiences you bring to our purpose-minded team. All while understanding that together we are even better.