Food and Nutrition Services serves thousands of patients, families, and employees’ nutritional needs each and every day. From our hotel style room service for patients to our cafeterias and gourmet bakeries, working in the fast-paced food and nutrition services at UAB Medicine is an opportunity to improve your culinary skills, learn how to cook with specialized equipment, and coordinate nutrition education and intervention for patients and families.

• Employee wellness and assistance programs
• Child Development Center
• Employee perks and discounts at local businesses

Cooks are the production backbone of the kitchen. Due to our large volume of patients, we have a team of talented cooks and culinary staff who create meals for patients using standardized recipes and approved methods of high volume food production. The work is fast-paced and varied, and is performed under the instruction and guidance of trained chefs. We employ production staff on our patient tray food lines who produce short-order requests or plate meal orders. We also schedule both cooks and cold food employees in bulk food prep and production for the 3500 patient meals we serve every day.

General Responsibilities:

To prepare food items for patients, children, visitors, and staff using specialized equipment. To communicate recipe and production issues to supervisors. May develop and implement USDA menus for children ages up to sixty (60) months.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

1. Cooks food for patients, children, visitors, and/or staff. Handles food according to all applicable guidelines during preparation and storage.

2. Maintains a safe, clean, and sanitary work environment.

3. Safeguards all equipment through proper operation, assembly, care and maintenance.

4. Follows established guidelines, policies and procedures of all regulatory agencies and the hospital, child development center or department.

5. May Process cash transactions according to standard procedures including proper security methods, verification of bank and drawer, and maintaining cash tolerance.

6. May monitor proper purchasing and usage of supplies in accordance to established procedures or USDA guidelines.

7. Performs other duties as assigned.

Salary Range: $16.50 - $26.80

One (1) year of related experience required. Certified as completed the Food Handler Training Course by the Jefferson County Department of Health within twenty-one (21) days from date of employment required.