Location: Springfield,MA, USA
** Cook**
**Job Category****:** Direct Service **Requisition Number****:** COOK0004389 Showing 1 location **Job Details**
**Description**
The Cook works within the Agencys team model, establishing open communication, support, and accountability among co-workers. The cook is part of a team that provides nutritionally prepared meals, three meals a day, 365 days each year, for DYS Westfield Detention, as part of our Juvenile Justice Services
The cook is responsible for the preparation and implementation of menus which meet the nutritional and other requirements of the Bureau of Nutrition; the cooking of meals; compliance with all local, state, and federal sanitation and hygiene codes; and individual or group work with residents engaged in vocational training
**REQUIREMENTS**:
* Must be 21 years of age
* Graduation from approved cooking school & Baking skills preferred
* Knowledge of local, state, and federal sanitary and health codes
* Serve Safe Certification, required or pass within probationary period
* Prefer experience working with troubled adolescents
* Reliable transportation, must pass DEEC Background Check
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**Education**
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High School or better.
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Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities
The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractors legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)